Planning

PLANNING AND ORGANISING FILMING FIRST PART OF THE MUSIC VIDEO

Planning:

Planning for my music video took me a long time. I needed to find the place, costumes and actors. I wanted to film first part of the music video in the park and the second part in an old apartment.

During Russian fall, parks are very beautiful, therefore I wanted to show this beauty in my music video. Moreover, I felt that yellow / orange leaves will represent 80’s / 90’s and will look warmer for the audience. For the second part of the video I decided to film in an old apartment where people throw colour powder into each other.

You can see pictures of the filming process that we had. The weather was nice, sunny and warm.

Models:

To find the models, I asked my friends to help me and take part in the music video. I asked my good friend Alli who is an artistic person and loves to perform. I also asked some of my classmates (girls) because I wanted to have people at the back as a dancing line. Even though it was hard to find girls who are artistic and are not scared to dance and sing in front of a camera, a few days after I finished my story board, I was ready to start filming. I wanted to start as soon as possible because cold weather comes in Moscow really quickly and I wanted to show the warmth in the video. To show my communication with the models and my actor, I will post pictures from the group chat “Whats App” where we discussed about future filming.

I didn’t have any auditions and didn’t make any decision about big group of girls or the actor. I personally asked my models to participate as I believed that they would be the best for the photoshoot. I think they will look great in the old 80’s clothes. Furthermore, this photoshoot wont be the first for us, therefore all of them already feel very comfortable to be filmed. Even though I have never worked with the protagonist like with other participants, he has showed his amazing acting skills and was very comfortable to sing and dance in the park.

During this talk, we had a few problems with organisation as many people from this group had plans during weekends. Instead of coming to my house and do all the preparations, we decided to go straight to the park and just change there. Moreover, I was supposed to have 4 girls, however one of them couldn’t come because of the personal reasons.

Location of the park

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure

We can see that the park is located in the centre of Moscow. It was very convenient for everyone to come, especially during weekend. This park is one of the most visited places in Moscow. There are many gardens, lakes and fields where I can film my music video.

Costumes :

It was very important to choose the right clothes as I needed to make 80’s music video. When I have created the group chat, I started asking if people has bright and colourful clothes.

You will be able to see our discussion about the choice of clothes on the pictures at the top. I chose these clothes for my 3 back up dancers who helped me with my music video. I tried to remember that the music video takes place in 1980’s, therefore clothes need to match the right decade. I used bright, neon colours for shirts and make up. Each of the girls has an interesting and unique look that only complements the idea of the music video. For the protagonist I chose bright red suit with a variety of different glasses. He out stands among other participants and have a similar style as Elton John. I have also used feathers as we can see in many original music videos.

Second Part of the Music Video :

Winter – I wanted to film the second part of the music video during winter because it would show that my character is still standing after a long period of time. As seasons change he is still happy, enjoying his single life and sings.

To organise a meeting with all the same people was not hard except to buy all the needed products and equipment. I bought colour powder and the paint suits so it would be comfortable for everyone. For Ali (character who plays Elton John) I bought bright orange suit so he would outstand among other people.