Recreating the Adele Close-up: Planning & Preparation

We have decided to recreate the Adele, 'Chasing Pavements' shot in order to gain further experience in terms of conventions of music videos. 

We have had to consider aspects such as location, camera angles, lighting, sound and props/costuming.

LOCATION:
We have found a suitable tree within our school grounds which is very similar to the tree in the music video. It went through vigourous testing processes but passed with flying colours; we are very happy with our choice.

CAMERA ANGLES:
Although the shot is primarily a close-up, there is also a slight high angle point of view, which causes Adele to look up into the camera lens. In order to achieve this, Georgia will be playing Adele, who is quite short whilst I film as I am quite a bit taller than her! We will do a test shot in order to establish the correct angle too.

LIGHTING:
In the music video, the light is very much on Adele who is in the foreground, with it being much darker in the backgrounnd to create a clearer contrast. To achieve this ourselves, we will use the LED light on Georgia's face and darken the background mostly in editing.

SOUND:
Georgia will have to mouth the words whilst we play the track in the background, then we can overlay a clearer HQ track during editing so as to avoid any background noise (e.g wind) which would make our shot look less proffesional

PROPS/COSTUMING:
We don't really need to aquire any props apart from an outdoors jacket, which is the only part of her costume we can see. Alongside this, we want to recreate the make up Adele wears during the video, which is mostly natural with some heavier eye make-up.