Feedback for Draft four

This is the feedback we gained for draft four this was to see what was our strong points for the video so far and what we could improve on, this gave us some ideas and confidence for our music video as we feel like we have a long way to go however, she gave us some good feedback which built our confidence up massively.

Laura Mulvey's theory- Change piper young

You could say that her theory does support our music video because piper is playing the damsel in distress in her video, this is playing on the fact that she is still wearing red lipstick which is very feminine and sexual in most men's eyes this is because a lot of women in the olden days would wear red lipstick to be seen as sexual on TV and off, also the colour represents love and passion  therefore men are going to look at this and see a feminine sexual women who needs to be saved. However piper doesn't need a man and when she walks away from it I feel like it will reach out to the women and make them feel powerful therefore allowing them to envy and want to be her for being strong enough to do that where some women cannot do that in real life. Laura says that men see them as being sexual and want to be with the girl that is portrayed as a sexual character and women are jealous and want to be her due to men fancying her, how she looks and her strong personality that she has so i do think that we support her theory although its hard to say that women will want to look and be like me as piper because she is fictional and I'm no superstar so I think maybe if this was real we could actually test it out but so far on paper it does support the theory.

Before and afters of the pictures from our digipak

 The progression of this one was quite easy i did it on Fotor and put a filter on it and made it look like a vintage photo.

 On this one i added a filter and smoothed out the hand and then made the lens flare go over the hand therefore exaggerating the hurt in the eyes as you can see then just added the smoke.






 This was more hard to edit as i did it on fireworks to get the black smoke at the back of the picture but then found out how to make it into the affect it is on the last one where we have added in the song list to the album and that became the back image of the Digipak.

Digipak draft 2

This is our draft for our Digipak, we were happy to call this our final one but after receiving feedback by a few people then we found that we need to change two of the pictures that we have used as they don't have the affect that the other ones do, so we are going to take pictures again and see which ones are the best for the Digipak.

Key shots and inspiration for our music vidoe

Man down by Rihanna:

we chose to use this as inspiration because we had an idea to have shots of my being trapped in my bedroom as i am in an abusive relationship therefore it is a symbol of being trapped in the relationship and also the fact that he wont let me out, this is why we wanted to find the way to do this without it being boring and the shots being too long, so we looked at rihannas video and see that she also has this affect in her music video and got some ideas to how i should be sitting and how the shots would look the best. 

Digipak progression

 The progression of one of the pictures used in the digipak. We had to cut out the lips and then place it on background of the black smoke to show the two different usp of our artist.

Changes in video

Our first key change was the artist it was originally Katie but she didnt feel comfortable doing it, as she was going to be the singer and i was going to be the narrative (because there is only two of us) but then it changed to just me singing about my abusive relationship that i am in.
We then changed the concept shots as we didnt think they went with what we was trying to achieve and then we changed them again and again because we felt that the shots of me with the boyfriend looked fake and didn't fit in with the performance shots that we had now found to be a good fit.
We also changed the digipak pictures and the original website a thousand times to find our pop star image and what represents her as the artist, we didnt really know what we was going for but when we found it we liked the idea and finally agreed (red lips and black smoke).
We chnaged the singing shots about 4 times form katie to me then to me in a different location to me in the location that we are now, we looked at the video 'Man down' by rihanna and liked the idea of me being trapped in the bedroom at the start of the video through the first verse this is to show her getting stronger throughout the video by her getting out of the house and i think this shows a reliable representation of what an abusive relationship is like. the changes that we did make were for the best and i think that its good that we did trial and error a few things before finding our pop star image.

Digipak plans

This is our digipak plan so far, we have planned a few pictures and are discussing what other ones to use for the last two, we knew what our cd was going to look like because we liked  the black smoke and it was going to either be the red lips or the black smoke and that is what we went with as it looked better.

Weather research for filming

We plan to film most our music video outdoors therefore we will need to check the weather. This is so that we can come prepared for example coats and gloves if it is cold or maybe an umbrella if it rains.

Here is the first day that we plan to film. By using this method of looking at the weather, we can easily see the break down of roughly which time the weather will change. This weather chart shows that it will rain most of the day. This could be a problem for us as it may ruin the shots. The rain and the darkness could look really good in our footage as it would relate to the music well, but it could also not look to great.

We tried filming our footage in this weather but it didn't work. The wind kept blowing my hair in my face and this ruined the shot as you could not clearly see what I was singing. Due to this minor setback, we decided to film the shots that was going to be inside the house. 

Here is the second day that we plan to film. This weather chart shows that there will be no rain all day therefore this means that we can get most of our outside filming done on this day. It will be fairly sunny and warm but will still look effective in the music video.
We filmed the outside footage in this weather and it worked really well. There was a slight breeze which blowing my backwards. This looked nice and worked well in the shot.

Second draft

Digipak so far

Option 1

Option 2

 Final

 

This was the stages of getting our CD and the background of the CD, we wasn't sure what one to pick but we eventually went for the one shown with the background because it was more clear that this was black smoke which is related to our artist and our website.

Possible locations for filming

We have researched some possible locations for our day of filming in london to see where would be best suitable for our music video,                          
London Bridge, we thought this would be a good shot in the music video before we changed the idea but we did use it for the view to do a time-lapse which we did use.






We chose to go down there by train obviously as it is the most convenient for us to travel to london and back.

Camden town: we chose to go to camden too, this was for more of a grimey look for the music video as it provided a lot of graffiti walls and underground places where we wanted to shoot in however we did change this around after we did this because we wasnt satisfied with what we got.

Behind scene of how I made my eye dilate

For this affect I simply just shone a light on my eye and video it so i got it all and then just cut to the bit I wanted to use in my video.

Techniques 2

This effect is reversing the shot so it looks like it is going backwards in time, we used this to show how the singer is disillusional at this Time due to her going through a emotionally abusive relationship, we think it work well with all the other concept shots because they all link together in some way all showing that she is going insane. The shot with the puddle and my foot is shown below,

This is how you do it on adobe premier, you right click the shot you would like to speed up or reverse the speed and click on the speed option then you put the speed you would like or keep it the same and click reverse speed and its as simple as that. 

Techniques

This is one of the shots we took when down london, we took it and cut it on adobe premier pro and then added the 'paint bucket' on video affects. We did this because we felt that the concept shot was boring if we just sped it up and left it how it was we liked the look of how the red colour changed as the train moved and went with the beat of the song, almost like a heart
beat to the song.

This is the example of what it looks
like in the music video.













This how the technique is made, as shown here where the circle is indicates the video affect to use and you simply drag it to the shot you wish to use it on and it is done.

Our changes

Audience choice on our artist

Secrete message in BANKS- Change

Read “Change” by Banks on Genius

we needed to see this because it makes us have a better understanding of the song for the music video. 

Inspiration

I really think the editing in this music video is so good not only is it the same genre as our but this is a really enjoyable music video,it has concept, performance and narrative moments in it which is exactly what i want to go for when filming and editing, i like the slow motion shots of the water splashing i want that in my music video. There is also more to this, he is abusing her domestically and this is what our song is about, we want to show that as much as she shows that in this music video.

The same genre as our chosen song

This is to show an understanding for our genre this helps to make the perfect music video due to the fact of the pace shots and what type of star you need for that genre.