Group meeting

Digipak shooting 1

Above are the photos that we shot as a group for our digipak. These photos were not up to standard so we decided to use this as practice and make sure we have considered more aspects such costumes that will conform to our genre.

Digipak research

 https://app.emaze.com/editor/@AWWZQLZI

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Filming Day 5

Filming Day 5 - Location : My house

Props/costume  : pictures and necklace

Pictures - to burn in the final shots
necklace - piece of iconography ( necklace from boyfriend with his initial on it)
costume - white top (purity and innocence) also to be used as a pyjama top

Locations: Bedroom and garden

The bedroom will be used as the female is waking up in a sad and heartbroken mood.

The garden will be used to shoot the footage of the female burning photos as it wont be safe to do so inside the house.

Binary opposites:

Above are two images of the same female in our music video,Nikita. Myself and my group member wanted to portray Nikita as a weak, heartbroken and vulnerable female so I bought a white t shirt for her to wear at the start of the video. This highlighted her purity and innocence in the break down of her relationship with her boyfriend. In comparison, we wanted to highlight a change in the females attitude by changing her clothing, makeup and hair. So we gave her a different hairstyle, darker clothing and heavier makeup, this footage will be used as the female is burning the photos of herself and her ex - boyfriend. By showing these two sides of the female character we hope that our audience are clearly able to understand the narrative


*Update:

Today I filmed at home independently. The plan was to film the first part of the music video (female waking up) and the last part ( female burning images of her and her then boyfriend). Filming was very difficult, with it being winter it got dark very quickly and I had to resort to using artificial light. However, it made the shots look very unnatural and unclear. Having looked back at the footage I have decided to re-shoot the first half next week as I have identified where I went wrong. Secondly, there were many obstacles in filming outside, although I checked the weather beforehand I didn't expect rain the whole day. When filming the scenes outside it was clear that it wasn't going to work, due to the wind we were unable to light the matches and the females hair kept blowing in her face which made it extremely hard to see her facial expression. Although we were able to capture some good shoots during Filming Day 5, most of the footage will have to be re done as soon as possible

Preparing for filming Day 5

Over this coming weekend myself and my group have decided to split up the task of filming.
Two of my group members will be filming at the O2 whilst i'll be filming at my house. (two new locations) 

On Sunday I plan to film with the main character at my house, this footage will be what happens at the beginning of our music video and will add to filming day 1. I hope that this will make our audience understand our narrative better and give them extra information on our characters.

Props:
candles
fairy
lights
photos
lipstick
curlers
iphone 6


Costumes: 

outfit 1 - White t shirt to highlight innocence

outfit 2 - darker outfit and different hairstyle - change in emotion as she has left her toxic relationship



Locations: 
The two locations being used will be my bedroom and my bathroom, as my house is currently being decorated I have my mattress on the floor. During my research I watched 'Ed Sheeran's video ' Give me Love' ' which also had the same look which gave me the idea to film there.

In my garden I have access to a balcony which will really come in useful when shooting as I can get some

Group meeting

As a group we have been facing some issues with communication and our overall work as a group, today myself and my group members have decided to meet and delegate roles so that we all play an integral role in the planning, filming and editing of our music video. Due to myself and Jamie - Lee shooting the majority of the footage we have given ourselves the roles of director, we will also be responsible for creating the storyboard, shot list and shooting schedules for the footage that we plan to shoot and eventually carrying out the task of editing our video. The two members of my group have been given the role of planning for the digipak as we have our model coming in next week for a test shoot.

After this meeting I will be able to mainly focus on the music video (planning and filming) whilst offering my support and ideas to the rest of my group. Our next task is to plan what we want to shoot and include on our digipak which will be displayed in the next blog post, we need to think about costumes, props and what conventions of the Indie genre we'd like to conform to.

Later this day, we got a brief idea of what we'd like to include in our digipak

- nature (trees, leaves, flowers etc.)
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However we need to do more research into our genre before making our final decision