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Heres our 1st draft of the beginning of our music video.

Heres our 2nd draft of the beginning of our music video

The very beginning of it is blank as we have not finished filming the opening credits nor have we decided how we want the video to start. We may use opening credits which help introduce the song like "Passion Pit - Little Secrets" at the beginning or a voices over it saying "Take 1" with a clapper board to make it look like all one shot, just a camera following the people round for a day and night.

Here is our 3rd draft of the beginning, after considering how we wanted the music video to start we think this is the best way to help it portray a home made look. We decided not to use the clapper board as this would make it more movie style than home made video, we really like the beginning; our inspiration came from Nirvana's video for Seasons in the Sun.

From Mrs S

I'm concerned that you're going to get behind. There's a lot of planning and little else. Don't forget the number of marks for the construction.

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Here is some of the footage we have recorded already. Please note that the scenes are not in order or in time with the song, as we just want to give an idea as to what our video will portray.

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Timings
Draft 1
0.0 – 0.05 opening credits “Passion Pit films presents Little Secrets” “Starring”
3.21 secs – shots of feet walking
15 secs introduce characters
20 – 51 secs – day time activities with the group, fighting, bundle,
25secs – Singing comes in
45 – 1min – driving scenes, going to party/gathering
1min – knocking at the door of party/gathering
1.02min – 1.14min – house gathering/party scenes
1.12min – secret box
1.21mins – first secret face “binge drinker”
1.31mins – sparkler scenes, slow motion shots
1.40mins – 2.36mins – party gathering scenes
3.51mins – 4mins – end scenes, walking away, sparklers going out

Changes Draft 2
46secs – 50secs – scenes from day to night

Final Timings
0.00.00 Beginning 'Passion Pit Films Present Little Secrets'
0.00.02 'Starring'
0.00.05 (Beat comes in) Introducing of characters
0.00.20 Friends start mucking about at the park
0.00.26 'Sun poured down into me' Image of the sky and sun
0.00.28 Back to scene of friends having fun
0.00.34 'Trembling fists' Shot of trembling fists
0.00.37 Friends playing again
0.00.43 Friends leaving the park
0.00.50 Friends in the car going to first party
0.01.00 Arriving at the party
0.01.01 Inside the party (House)
0.01.13 'This can be our little secret' (Lyrics)Shot of a box saying 'secrets'
0.01.14 Back to party scenes
0.01.22 ' I feel alive i feel it in me' (Lyrics) First secret face"I'm no longer a binge drinker"
0.01.26 Back to party scenes
0.01.32 Sparkler scene
0.01.40 Dancing at the party (Beat comes back)
0.01.43 At the party clinking all drinks together
0.01.47 Back to party scene
0.02.16 Clinking all drink together again
0.02.35 Leaving first party
0.02.37 Driving to the next party
0.02.40 Second secret face 'Let this be our little secret' (Lyrics) "Ex Addict"
0.02.51 Driving
0.02.54 Arrived at second party
0.03.16 Third secret face. ‘Starring at my scars' (Lyrics)"I'm no longer insecure"
0.03.21 Party scene
0.03.57 Sparkler scene

We have to edit our timings to the footage we could get as the fireworks and "getting dark" scene was unfortunately not showing up on the camera. But these timings, I feel, will be sufficient for showing our story line.

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Storyboard: Here are some scenes that we have planned to include in our music video. The events relate to lyrics in the song.

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Here is our letter we wrote to the following people for the acceptance from them to be filmed: Matthew Martin, Mary Davis, David Temple, Jared Adams, Ashley Carter, Rohit Verma, Thomas Quirk and Kirsty Webb.

Edgbarrow School
Grant Road
Crowthorne
Berkshire
RG45 7HZ
24th October 2009

Dear__________,

This is a letter of concerning your permission of being filmed for our music video, Little Secrets by Passion Pit.
Please sign below if you enable us to film and use footage of you for our video.

Thank you very much for co-operation.

Chloe and Laura

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To help with research, we have been looking at music videos made by previous students ranging from high and low grades to see what looks good and what doesn't. We found particular issues to to consider when making our own, for example: continuity and being able to understand the storyline as well as linking it to lyrics; this is so it's not just music placed on top of a video - there has to be a point.