Planning: Props

Props are an important factor to music videos as they make the video become more realistic and amplify what is happening. We are only planning to use a small amount of props and have a budget of £5 therefore we won't be using a wide variety of props that we will need to buy.

The most used prop we will be using will be polaroid pictures and we are planning to make these on our own. We are doing this so we stick to our budget as from some research we have done on the cost to get them ready made by a company called photobox.com for 36 prints it will be £19.99 which is over our budget of £5. This is also quite pricey to only print 36 pictures,  especially when we will need more than 36 as we want the main character to be looking through several different photos and create a background of a wall of polaroids.

We also came up with the idea to make them by searching how to make polaroid pictures on pinterest. Pinterest is a social media site where people post DIY's with instructions, fashion trends and gift ideas. Using pinterest we found a blog where they showed us how to make polaroid pictures using a website called picmonkey. We are planning to use the 30 free day subscription to the site and will print of the pictures from there.

As our main cast member will be leaving to go somewhere and it is held in a waiting room we are planning to use our own suitcases from home and have them around the cast member when they are lip syncing in this location. The use of this prop will make the scene look more realistic and amplify the lyrics and meaning of the song. Along with the suitcases the main cast member will be holding a takeaway coffee cup representing that she is tired,cold and bored of waiting.

Within our music video we will be having a variety of 'home' videos of the couples playing in the chorus. In one of the videos we will be having the couple carving a pumpkin therefore one of our main props will be the pumpkin and the tools they will be using to carve it. In another one of the home videos we will be having the couple walking and playing with the dog, the dog will be a prop as it is an extra in this scene and doesn't feature in the whole video. There will also be a video where the couple are baking so the props being used will be baking equipment with the location of a kitchen.