Experimentation for DigiPak.

Today I experimented with layering up one of the pictures that we took while in London with some paint splashes images. I think that this looks effective however, I would edit it better. Possibly cutting out the background of the layer of me and making this all white so it looked a lot cleaner. Also I would prefer a closer up shot. This was more just experimentation, testing an idea I thought might work quite well.

History Of The Music Video

History Of The Music Video (Music Infographics)

28/01/14

In today's lesson we continued our editing. So far we have edited up to the first chorus for our song. Editing is going really well, when an issue arises we all talk it through and decide as a group what to do. One of our main issues at the moment is trying to decide where to put the number scenes. We wanted to use them to do a countdown to the paint party, but we weren't sure if they should all go together or separately between different lip-singing shots. We thought that the clips should go together as it would make more sense that way. The next decision was whether these should go building up to the first chorus or the second. We decided that the first one should be used for more London shots and then build up the numbers for the second. If this doesn't look right when we have added in our paint-party shots that we can always move things around.

Ideas for Makeup

I drew up some face charts last night to test a couple of ideas for our makeup.  We had been discussing what look we wanted, and we had very different ideas. We were certain that we wanted glow in the dark paint splatters on the face but a lot of the other bits where undecided. I have done three looks that we could use and will show them to the group to see what they think.

Yellow and Pink Graphic Style Eyeshadow. Pink Blush. Pink Stain Lips.

Multicolored Eyeshadow. Stars.Glitter Lips

A orange eyeshadow base. Black Eyeliner. Red Lips

21st January: Group Meeting

Today's lesson we started editing the footage for the beginning of our music video. We got along quite far, just doing a rough edit that we can make better later on. We found a few issues with continuity of editing, finding that there were areas that didn't quite match up. For example when I am standing up I pour the tea for myself and the "boyfriend" figure,we wanted to cut from this long shot to a medium over the shoulder shot however, we found we didn't have matching shot for the cut so it didn't flow. Other than that we had a very productive meeting. I think the best bit we did today was that we decided to slow down the part where the cake hits the guys face, and then reverse this and speed it up in time to the song. I think this looks really effective in the video. 

Group Meeting: 20th January

Today in our media lesson we uploaded our footage from the London filming. We then watched the footage back to review it. We also uploaded all our footage so far to Premier Pro and organised it all into separate bins, so we can easily find it for example, Opening, Tower Bridge, London Eye, Fillers, Numbers. etc.

We thought our footage was good and we thought about when to film our powder paint scene, and the spacey stuff in the drama studio.

Another thing we thought about was the issues we had during the London filming.  I don't feel that my performance was as strong as it could have been, so once we start editing we want to go do some more pick up shots etc around London. Also during the power scene we want to have a dance routine or something as we have noticed alot of this in our research of pop music video, its also part of Goodwins theory,  that music and visual link. Also we thought it be beneficial to discuss and practice my performance before shooting.

Ideas for Costume: Drama Studio.

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