THE FIVE STAGES OF PRODUCTION

These are:
• Research and development
• Pre-production
• Shoot
• Editing
• Exhibition and distribution
• I followed these five stages in making my pop video.



To go about the production of my pop video I will first of all have to find the right location for my idea. It will be hard to find the right building for my idea as I want it to be set in a rural suburban area and it may be hard to find someone who lives in an area like that who would be willing to let out their house. As soon as the right house is found we can build the bedroom set. All we need is to copy the design of the window in of the house and then we can put it into the studio. The next stage would be to draw up a story board. I think this is important to go after finding the location as we could then work our idea around whichever location we find as finding the location is going to be tricky and it could alter the whole appearance of the video.

Story boarding it will give us a good narrative of the idea. The next stage will be to right up exactly what we need for the video (props, make up etc) so that we can go out and organise them early. The next stage we should cast the video. We will need a big cast as there is a big crowd scene. There are actually two members of Hall & Oates but we could turn it into a trio when we cast the band so that we can have more going on. The song consists of a keyboard, a bass, drums, a guitar, a singer and a backup singer. I was thinking the singer could sing as well as playing the keyboard. There would be someone who will only play bass and someone who only plays the drums while the guitarist can also be backup singer. The final stage will be to actually film the video. This will consist of half studio filming (the scenes in the bedroom) and half filming on a street yet to be chosen (the scenes which consist of the neighbours getting to under the window). We will have a whole day of filming so we can dedicate the first half to filming in the bedroom and the second half filming on the street or vice versa.