Saturday, January 23, 2016
Filming Day 2...
The aim for filming was to capture all the outdoor shots for my music video. When we arrived at the location, however, it was too bright to film the bits I intended to get done. Instead, I took a few photos that I could use for my CD insert and ones that I could manipulate for my album front cover. So far, I am considering using the first photo as my album cover.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Filming: Day One...
For the first day of filming, I planned to film a few of my indoor shots. For these I filmed at my sisters flat, a location where a lot of my music video will take place.
The shots I planned to film were some of the ''flashback'' shots. For these I needed to consider how the mise-en-scene would change from the 'present tense' shot to the past via visual semiotics. For example, in the ''flashback'' shots, as this was seen to be a happy time by the male character, a string of fairy lights has been added to the scene along with a pink and a blue Disney mug to symbolise the relationship and memories of the two characters.
The shots I planned to film were some of the ''flashback'' shots. For these I needed to consider how the mise-en-scene would change from the 'present tense' shot to the past via visual semiotics. For example, in the ''flashback'' shots, as this was seen to be a happy time by the male character, a string of fairy lights has been added to the scene along with a pink and a blue Disney mug to symbolise the relationship and memories of the two characters.
Coursework: Planning My Video
In order to plan and organise my ideas for my music video, I printed off a copy of the lyrics to the song and began to collect my thoughts around different verses of the songs. These annotations will form the basis for my initial ideas and storyboard of the music video.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Storyboarding...
I decided to only storyboard the first two versus of my music video as I am not sure how I want it to end as I have changed from my original idea. The story line I do have though portrays the lyrics well in the first two verses.
Coursework: Permission...
I decided to send an email to James Bay's management to ensure that I would be able to use his song for educational purposes. Below is a copy of the email sent.
Coursework: A Change Of Plan
My original plan for my music video was to have two narratives running alongside each other with two different endings. When attempting to film this, I realised that, with the time limit, this would be incredibly hard to do.
I attempted the dual narrative but found it difficult to get both the shots synchronised and in time with each other. I thought about filming both shots with a few differences to remove the stress of trying to replicate the shots exactly. However, I thought that the audience might not understand that it was the same narrative and not two different stories.
Instead of my original plan, I'm going to change my narrative into a story of a broken down relationship. I'm going to continue to use the song Let It Go by James Bay as I feel this would fit the new narrative and that the lyrics fit the story completely.
I will continue to use the same actor as I feel his look fits the part.
I attempted the dual narrative but found it difficult to get both the shots synchronised and in time with each other. I thought about filming both shots with a few differences to remove the stress of trying to replicate the shots exactly. However, I thought that the audience might not understand that it was the same narrative and not two different stories.
Instead of my original plan, I'm going to change my narrative into a story of a broken down relationship. I'm going to continue to use the song Let It Go by James Bay as I feel this would fit the new narrative and that the lyrics fit the story completely.
I will continue to use the same actor as I feel his look fits the part.
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