treatment

I have included our treatment. A treatment includes all the important conceptual elements of our music video. It should state our idea's for our music video, the type of camera shots and edits we would like to use, and how we would expect our music video's to look like shot by shot. Our treatment is just a rough plan on what to follow when shooting our video, but  it helps us stick to a plan and it becomes easier to shoot the different scenes as we go along, as we would have planed out what we wanted the scene to look like. However our ideas may change as we rehearse and start shooting. we all came up with idea's within our group and discussed the different types of edit's we would like to use, we then wrote down our idea's and our director (Ariba) wrote up a treatment we all then edited it and agreed on a final one. As we go along we will edit our treatment to how we want our video to look like. 

Below I have included a copy of our treatment. 

Treatment

CAMERA TILTS UP & ZOOMS IN- to show mid-shot of upper body (waist upwards). Low-key lighting used here.

STRAIGHT CUT to feet.

STRAIGHT CUT back to turso. Spotlight in the same place. Points to camera and says ‘This is Hip-Hop right here…Crucial’

STRAIGHT CUT to show face again & upper body but this time spotlight moves up and down twice.

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STRAIGHT CUT of mid-shot (waist upwards). Natural lighting used here with pale cream background.

CAMERA POSITIONED IN A DIAGONAL ANGLE to view artist performing in front of camera. Ends at ‘new breed..’

STRAIGHT CUT of same shot but camera positioned more to the right. Viewer can no longer see camera screen. Here lyrics start from ‘Suicide ain’t the path that I lead..’ till ‘Crucial execution scene’.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of artist in front of grafitti wall. Natural lighting used here.

CAMERA PANS artist walking to the right. Starts from lyrics ‘This is Hip-Hop in its purest form..’

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CUTAWAY of location with the yellow and white skull. Starts from lyrics ‘Recognise it G, the beats are supreme..’ till ‘No-one fuking with the way that I speak..’

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CAMERA AT LOW-ANGLE SHOT so artist is crouching and comes close to the camera.

CAMERA PANS a little to the right when artist smacks and you see a glimpse of the grafitti location. Lyrics here are ‘So why compare me to Lowkey or Immortal Technique when I’m just doing me.’

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-close up shot (shoulders and face). Here we are able to see the camera screen.

Background out of focus. Screen in foreground clear and in focus.-Differential/Variable focus.

Natural lighting used here.

STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot (showing waist upwards) of artist performing in front of camera

Natural lighting used here too. Lyrics start from ‘I’m governing my own religion..’ till ‘You know me.’

A SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS back to mid-close up scene and then another straight cut to the mid-shot scene x 3. Both shots of same scene edited together.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot (waist upwards).

Then CLOSE UP as he approaches towards the camera and whistles. Lyrics here are ‘Anti-fascist, anti-gimmicks’.

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STRAIGHT CUT to projection scenes of mid-shot (waist upwards).

Low-key lighting used here.

A SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS to close-ups of the same scene in projection scene of his face. Lyrics here are ‘Above average annalists..’ till ‘All you people talk about terrorist threats’

CLOSE UP of writing ‘You ain’t seen terrorist yet’.

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STRAIGHT CUT OF LOW-ANGLE to long shot of him walking down the stairs.

STRAIGHT CUT of low angle mid-close up shot of him sitting down. The camera is positioned to view him in a diagonal angle from the left. Lyrics here are ‘Till the break of dawn I practise scientology’ till ‘our cries in vain’.

STRAIGHT CUT back to him walking down the stairs but this time he is closer to the camera than before.

STARIGHT CUT again of mid-close up back to him sitting down performing the song in front of the camera.

Natural lighting is used here.

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STRAIGHT CUT to close-up. Viewer can see the camera screen in the frame.

STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of artist performing but this time can no longer see the camera screen.

SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS of close-up shots of his face. Lyrics start from ‘Happy with the way things are going no complaints’ till ‘Man I don’t understand you people sometimes.’

Natural lighting used here.

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STRAIGHT CUT to projection scene and we see a mid-shot (showing waist upwards).

Lyrics here are from ‘I don’t understand why you mother-fuckers use each other all the time’ till ‘blasting holes in your history’.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of artist performing in font of camera. But the viewer can’t see camera screen in the frame.

A SERIES OF STRAIGHT CUTS to show just through the camera screen only. Through here we are able to see close-ups of his face to emphasise facial expressions.

Lyrics from ‘Like a cannibal I’m back from the 18^th century’ till ‘breaking bias beliefs’.

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STRAGIHT CUT to another projection scene. This is a close-up (shoulders and face).

Low-key lighting is used here.

STRAIGHT CUT to mid-shot of the same scene. Lyrics from ‘Broadening brains’ till ‘Crucial execution scene’, where he points to the camera.

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FADE to a black screen and then you see a blurry image of his face, whilst he is facing sideways.

Low-key lighting due to the many shadows here.

STRAIGHT CUT to clearer image of his face and shoulders.

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STRAIGHT CUT to mid-close up of feet walking to the rhythm of the beat.