Lighting.

I will be using mainly natural lighting as most of my scenes are shot outside during the daytime and therefore I shouldn't have to use artificial lighting. The only time  might have to use lighting will be if filming at night, although I do have umbrella lights that would work to illuminate the scene and if worst comes to worst I can always adjust the lighting effects when editing in iMovie.

Sound FX

I haven't really thought about using sound effects in my music video, however I think using one of a heart rate monitor flat lining at the beginning before the song kicks in would be a rather effective way of suggesting what the video was about before the actually video had began. This will be something that I will be sure to try out in the future, and that way I can evaluate whether or not it works or not.

Actors

The actors in my music video are going to be my six year old twin nieces, as the main characters (Aaliyah&Lychelle) and their Mum(my sister), Kesna playing their mother.

I have chosen these to be the actors as for the story I want my narrative to portray I have to have a close knit family bond that is real so its believable when watching the video. I want the story line of my music video to be as real and emotive as possible because it does tackle a real issue of loss and how it affects children in ways that you might not really pick up on.

Location

The main location for my filming is the Everton View, Liverpool and I have chosen this location as it looks over the whole of Liverpool and has a spectacular view that will be good to use for establishing shots. This location also has a park and lots of hills that propose good filming locations for the smaller family-like scenes.

The second location will be a cemetery, as this is for when the children place flowers on their mothers grave. i have chosen this location as it is very practical.

The third location is for when we set lanterns off and as it would have to be night time I have chosen to do this in my own back yard. I also have a set of umbrella lights that will act as the lighting for outside so that its not to dark to see the filming.

Costume

The costumes that I will be using will be winter themed so for the children:

• Wellington boots, or black boots, jeans/leggings, t-shirts /sweaters and winter coats. - this will be the costume for the park setting.
• Pink dressed with cardigans, nice dolly shoes, and jackets - this will be for the cemetery scene.

For the mother:

• Legging's and a sweater with knee high boots, to connote a really mumsy outfit. 
• during scenes where you see her watching over her children, a more white angelic outfit.

Props

The props that I am going to be using are:

A picnic basket&Blanket 
A football
Flowers 
Candles 
Paper Lanterns

These props will be used during the day of filming where we shoot family scenes and the children and their mother playing at the park, and also at the cemetery where the children will be visiting the grave of there mother.

Filming

I am hoping to start filming over the next two weeks as I will also have to self edit the video, as I am single handedly creating this music video. I have already plotted out a storyboard and have a rough idea of scenes, and how to direct them.