Digi Pak - New Idea

As we now have a new idea, the photos for our digi pak have changed, heres a few that could be possible ideas.

Shadow

Today we filmed another shot in my bedroom. We had a plain white wall with a lamp shining onto one side of my face. This created a shadow onto the wall. We filmed the whole song with me lip synching.

We liked this affect as is created the soft, flowing effect which is the same feel as the ballet.

When editing the footage we found we had a problem. We could see the shadow of the tripod and camera. So when editing we had to crop the image.

Fading Effect

In our music video we wanted to create a shot which had one clip faded into another.

We did this by clicking the 'pen tool', this created a black line on our clips, also with this tool we could apply small black dots that we could drag either up or down which brings the fade in and out and can control how strong or weak we wanted the fade.

This is how the fading effect worked on the 2 clips.

Filming New Footage !

Filming

This is the setting for the new footage, we thought that we would go for a more simple look as the music is more of a relaxed stlye.

Also the facility that we used to film our video in had use of light, we took advantage of this and we used the lights took make more of an atmosphere.

We tried many different shots to give us more variety and wouldnt make our film boring.

Costume

These pointe shoes were used within our music video.

We chose to use this dress as it was a flowing dress and went perfectly with the music.

New Idea ! :)

Our new idea is now more simple than last time. We thought that we would go for something that is very common within music videos in the past up to today.

This is from Rihanna's 'Umbrella', we want to use the dance idea within our music video.

Other examples of artist thathave included dance within their music video would be :

Cheryl Cole - 'The Promise'

Pixie Lott - 'Cry Me Out'

Rough Cut !!

This is the rough cut of our first idea. We then showed this video to people in our class and waited for their feedback.

FEEDBACK :)

- 'Lipsynching was on point, first couple of seconds it was out but then it pulled back into time'

- 'Have a bit more variety of shots'

- 'When the lights are hanging it then blocks the face'

Email from Maxi !! :)

As we seem to be struggling for an idea still. We emailed the artist Maxi.

She replied with :

Changing ??

WE HIT A PROBLEM !!!

We've found that we do not have a strong enough idea !!

Meaning that we would have to start again !!

Digi Pak :)

We need to start thinking about our digi pak. We researched some on google and amazon and here are some we liked:

Here are some images that we thought we could use within our digi pak:

We thought about using a continuous image for the inside of our digi pak. This was done on paint.

Filming !!

The first shot that we did was the walking of the shoes. We had 4 different pairs of shoes that everytime we took a step the shoes would change.

Each time we wanted a different pair of shoe Rosela would move the camera over keeping the camera in the same line and same distance away from the walking.

This shot was tricky as you had to try and match the walking perfectly to make it a smooth shot.

New Location

Then we changed location. We moved to the garages which was round the back of the garden. We thought this was a good location as it was quirky and weird, which was the atmosphere we wanted to create.

We tried many shots with Dean such as close-up, extreme close-up, over the shoulder shot, point of view.

As you can see it started to get dark very quick so we needed to hurry the shots. In this shot we were trying to get the balloons thrown at the camera.

Rosela writing 'HAZY' and 'CRAZY' on my finger, these are words that appear in the song. In the shot we wanted me holding my finger to my mouth. Then when the words changed my finger would switch.

We put these shots at the end of the night as we wanted it to be a bit darker. The reason for this was because we wanted the lights to show perfectly.

This was the very last shot. My make-up was a mess and so was my hair. We thought that laying down with the lights all around was perfect for this ... we tried many different angles here.

Filming - Setting Up !

Before we started filming we had to set up the location of where we were filming and all the props, costumes and make-up we included.

Location

This is one of the locations that we chose to use for our music video. Also we had a second location which was a line of garages.

- Also you can see that we have a trampoline in the shot, this was going to be used as a table, however when we came to setting up we realised that it was too big and also took up to much of the garden which limited the space of which we could film in.

As we couldn't use the trampoline we decided to use two other tables which when pushed together was a perfect size.

Setting the Location

As you can see, we are attaching lights the shed. This is because when it started to get darker we wanted a shot of me standing under the shed with the lights lip synching.

Props

These are the props that we will be used , placed on the table, the watch necklace which will be worn.

We decided to have balloons as it added to the party effect, and we figured that we could do some great shots with the balloons.

Rosela checking that all the lights are working.

Costumes

These were some of the ideas that we had for costumes.

Getting Ready

This is when we was getting ready, here Rosela is writing 'Come On Over' onto my eye.