First Day of Shooting Plan

Our plan is to shoot all the footage for our music video, which will be of the gambling house that the protagonist is playing poker within. The aim is to create an underground gambling den vibe, as opposed to a casino. This will connote danger, more than a casino, as casinos are much brighter places, connoting a less dark atmosphere. Therefore, we are going to be filming in the drama studio of our school, as it fits our criteria, with dark black curtains, letting us create a dark scene.

In drama studio we will be bringing two tables into it, and setting all of our gambling props upon it. Then we will set up the drama studio light over one seat, where the protagonist will be sitting. This is so all of the other characters will be darkened silhouettes, whilst the protagonist will have the 'spot light', creating a strong contrast between dark and light. Our plan is to get around 3-6 other people to be seated around the table, as other gamblers.

We are aiming to get an excessive amount of shots, so that we can just delete any we do not want to use, when editing. Therefore, we may not be able to obtain all of the shots within one day of shooting. Nonetheless, we are planning on capturing all of our footage.

Some of the shots we wish to take are:

• close ups of the protagonist
• panning shot around the gambling table
• a tilt shot, which will spin around showing each character and stopping on the protagonist
• an over the shoulder shot of the protagonist going 'all in' with his gambling chips
• shots of the table
• shots of poker hands