Pre-Production for Busted

We were given a brief to re-create the video to the busted song "that's what i go to school for". The first thing we all did in pre-production was to watch the original version of the busted video. We watched it several times and as a group picked out all the props (pens, paper, guitar's etc) and costumes that the band and the rest of the class were using/wearing in the video. We then picked roles between our class of who would be the three main characters. Everybody else were either in a 5 second shot or just a dancer/classmate in the background. I was picked to be one of the classmates/dancers who walked past charlie in the video. After picking roles we had to do a risk assessment on what potential hazards we could come across. There were quite a few risk's that we come up with by thinking outside the box, than what we normally would of thought. Like looking too closely at a projector or having bright lights on for too long. Once this was complete we got into pairs and each watched the video over and over again to make a storyboard. After this was done, in our pairs we practiced lip syncing to the busted song we were filming too "that's what i go to school for". We practiced lip syncing so that we had already practiced before doing the real thing. This helped a lot as we were then more confident with it all, and because we had practiced so much we got to know the lyrics as well.


Busted Storyboard



Original Video