First plan - costume planning

I created a mood board by looking through magazines to find the type of clothing and jewelry i feel is stereotypical of the R&B music genre. I noticed that most of their clothing is black with jeans and then lots of gold jewelry. I then created a mood board of famous R&B artists to show how they are dressed to get further inspiration. 
For our 3 main actors we have chosen to have their costumes consisting of plain black clothing with jeans and gold jewelry to keep with the stereotypes that i have found when researching into R&B music videos. I have added pictures of examples of what we are planning our actors to wear when filming our music video.

First plan - props list

Before filming our music video we need to think about what props we need to include so that it makes it easier to when we come to filming. firstly we will need a camera to film the video and a tripod to make sure out filming is precise and not shaky to get a better quality video. Then the props we will need for in the video is a cross, flag and a bible.  we will use a camera and tripod from our school media department, we will then buy a British flag, make a wooden cross and borrow a bible from one of our friends.

Lyrics analysis - No Church in the Wild

First plan - story board of our video

Risk assessment form - House

Filming Risk Assessment Form

Church permission

To get permission to film in the church we had to email them. They did not email back so we contacted them by telephone instead, we made our plans to film inside the church over the phone after they had given us permission.

Risk Assessment Form - Church

Recce sheets

Contact with the band

Dear Mr. West

We are students who study media from a school in London called Epsom and Ewell High School. Our names are Tasha Crawford, Ashleigh Mason, Tilly Ottaway and Amy Smyth. Our project this year in media is to create a music video to a song of our choice, we have chosen ‘No Church in the wild’ by Jay-Z and Kanye West. We are writing to you in order to ask for your permission to use this song for our music video.

We would appreciate it if you replied and if you are interested we would like to send you the finished product in return.

Thank you for your time.

Yours sincerely,

Tasha Crawford, Tilly Ottaway, Ashleigh Mason and Amy Smyth.