Home Shoot TAKE 3 Planning

Tomorrow I plan to re-re-film the shoot at home!
I have filmed it once will Molly, and I have filmed it once with Vanessa. Obviously with Molly the cast changed, hence I filmed with Vanessa, but at the first attempt filming at home with Vanessa the camera died.

Therefore tomorrow I am going to film the same shots again, and because I am filming at my house, it will be exactly the same as the shoot with Molly. I will make sure there is no clutter in the background this time, because that looks unprofessional.

Props
- Hat
- Magazines
- Mirror
- Hairbrush
- Lipstick
- Straighteners
- Nail varnish
- Perfume
- Sock

I plan to flim the same shots along with an extra part of the bridge, 'I wanna smell like roses not a baseball team'. Here I plan to have low angle shot of her spraying and smelling perfume then she falls onto the bed, and there is a shot from above, 'not a baseball team' and she will pull out a sock that she fell on.

Diary!

Today I have designed and annotated my album designs. I plan to make this album on photoshop, but I decided to show it to my younger sister who is a 14 year old girl (my target audience), and her friend who are the same age.

Here are my album designs:

Here is my feedback:

Sophie, aged 14-- It stands out, because it has bright colours. It looks kind of pop art it, and yeah that's cool. I would probably buy it.

Caitlin, aged 14-

- If it was the actual Katy Perry I would buy it. It looks good. I think it's good for 14 year olds, but it might look a bit young for older people.

From my feedback I am going to make sure the colours aren't too bright and gather feedback from people my age to ensure I am not ONLY appealing to younger consumers. To try and make my feedback unbiased I told them it was my friend's designs!

I realised from looking closely at album's that a theme is often carried throughout, and often there is only one main picture. For example, one direction have a 'doodle' theme, to appeal to young girls.

On the first inlay of the album, it says 'Say Hello...' and then gives their Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and their website addresses. Radio one live lounge CD also has promotional info on the inside left cover. In my album cover I chose the wording, 'Check it out...', because Katy Perry is American and it is the colloquial language that teenage girls would use.

I decided to go with the theme of one main photo and then quite plain other sides, this is because I want the album to match the video. She is playing a teenage girl having a crush on a boy, therefore the album needs to show this. I am going to use plain outlines of a high heel, football, lipstick and hat, to relate to the music video.

Extra Shoot Review

Today I filmed with Vanessa and Reuben in college. It was definately the quickest I have filmed, because there was not much to film and I didn't need any lip syncing. We were all laughing at the really cheesey crips I got for Vanessa, which was good because in the footage I got the laughter looks really natural!

I am pleased with the shots I got, and I am now going to use the intertexual reference to 'She's The Man', because I can now copy two of the shots, which were featured in my treatment:












Here are some screen shots of the extra shoot footage in my video in final cut pro. I have put quick cuts of it into the end of the first chorus, to reinforce the fact of her acting like a boy and messing around. Also I got a shot of them taking a picture being silly, I plan to zoom out from the photo of her looking at the photo in her room in the next scene. This is to make the change of setting subtle and continue the narrative.

Editing Update

I have been editing all the footage together for a while now, and have realised I should have used a close up in a few places. Therefore I have used the zoom button to change a few shots, for example I have made a short close up of the pier game saying, 'RELOAD'. Also a close up of Reuben dropping his pen.

From re watching muic videos such as Hot and Cold by Katy Perry I have realised a variety of quick shots is essential for a upbeat pop video!
I plan to refilm the shoot at home again soon, as the camera ran out of battery and I didn't get enough filming done!

Extra Shoot Plan

I have started editing my music video together and have realised that I want to make the video more exciting by connecting the end of the first chorous with the scene filmed at home, to emphasis her changing (match the lyrics). Therefore I plan to film Vanessa and Reuben messing around with Vanessa eating like a pig, and them laughing, and then take a photo and her be looking at the photo in her room. If I edit the footage quickly and use quick shots I should be hopefully able to feed it into the chorous.

Here is my plan:

Rough Cut

Here is a very rough cut of my music video, I have not yet edited the chorous or finished any of the verses. This is a quick outline of what my video will be like, and I showed it to the class to get feedback so that I can find out if I am starting along the right lines or not.

FEEDBACK FROM CLASS

• Complex editing - looks really good! Just need to speed up the second bit :) But we like! :)
• Lip sync off in places, like the quick range of cuts at the start, good range of locations.
• Looking really good - well done! Keep up the quick cuts.
• Good variety of shots, good use of location and props.
• Music matches the video

Summer Shoot Review

Today I filmed the part of the song where she walks into school after having a makeover over summer. This is to match the lyrics

"Over the summer something changed...

and I walked right into school and caught you staring at me!
'Cause I know, what you know, and now you're gonna have to take a number.
It's okay, maybe one day,
But not until you give me my diamond ring."

I filmed shots where the visuals will match the lyrics for 'staring at me' and for 'take a number I got a shot of her arm pushing him away.
I think this shoot went well, the sun was shining a bit today, and Vanessa was in a summery dress and heels, and reuben was in a summer t-shirt. I used a close up of her heels as she walked in, and used a low angle shot to show her now being superior. I also got someone to hold a hairdryer to her face as she walked in, so that it looked like her hair was blowing in the wind. Although, on the first attempt the hairdryer was on hot and Vanessa started running away half way through filming, because of being burnt! Eventually I got a shot of her walking in lip syncing and without running away from the hairdryer!

Overall I am very happy with todays shoot, and think that the footage will look good.  I took a variety of close ups to show emotions, for example, Reubens shocked face and then two close ups of him dropping his pen.

Pier Shoot Review

Today Me, Vanessa, Georgina and Reuben went to the pier to film the 'summer' part of the song.  I planned the main dramatic part of the song to be when they are eating ice creams in an ice cream parlour. Today, because it was freezing and it was snowing outside, the ice cream parlour wasn't open and no where on the pier was open to buy ice cream! Although, the pier was pretty quiet so there wasn't many other people wanting to use the arcade games, and we didn't get too many strange looks for dressing for sun in the snow.

I improvised and used a killing game to contrast with a girlie dance game. I used a shot to show Reuben looking at Georgina, and then Vanessa attacked her.
Although it didn't go to plan, I think it may still look okay, but if it isn't long enough or dramatic enough, I will refilm with ice cream!

Home Shoot Review

Today I wanted to refilm the shots that I got with Molly at home having a 'girlie makeover', but this time with Vanessa. I think the filming was awful. I tried to get the same shots as I did with Molly, but the lighting was awful, and the camera died after 10mins therefore I have hardly any footage and I don't think it looks as good quality as the rest of my footage (because of the lighting). I am definately going to refilm this with a fully charged camera and not in the evening so that there is some natural light.
I am going to use the footage I have filmed in my rough cut, so that the audience will have an idea of what I want my music video to be like, but I will definately REFILM!

Here is the footage that I did film that I have edited together-

White Background Review

Yesterday's shoot went well, and I took photos for my digipak, here are all the photos taken on a contact sheet. 

Hallway Shoot TAKE 2 Review

Today I filmed again in the hallway in college. I needed to get the shot I planned of me and Georgina singing 'do do do' doing our makeup and then it pans down to Vanessa on the floor. I needed to use a different location so that it doesn't look like me and Georgina disappear, so I decided to use a white wall on a stairway. I have realised from watching pop videos that the artist often travels a lot to make the song more upbeat, hence I am going to make Vanessa jump round the stairs and run to the corridor where we filmed earlier this week.

Hot and Cold by Katy Perry is a great example of quick cuts and the artist traveling quick to make an upbeat music video.

Hallway Shoot Review

Today I filmed Vanessa acting boyish in college. To match the lyrics-

"And I take these suckers down 'cause they just get in my way.

The way you look at me,
Is kinda like a little sister,
Your high fives, your goodbyes,
And it leaves me nothing but blisters".

Vanessa wore a beanie hat, a jumper and trainers, had her hair tied up and not much makeup. I actually planned to film the begining of the song as well but Georgina (other girly girl) was not in.
Ryan, Will, and Reuben were in the corridoor and Vanessa walks over and pushes ryan over. I made sure I got a variety of shots and Vanessa lip synced 'get in my way' and 'blisters'.

I used an over the shoulder shot to show Reuben walking off putting his arm around another girl, unfortunately as Georgina wasn't in, I had to press record and then run down the corridor for Reuben to put his arm round me. Hopefully when I edit it all together it will look fine.

Diary!

Today I was thinking about how I can make my video and ancillary texts have a continuous theme. I went into town and had a look around the shops for extra props, and ended up in a fancy dress shop. I suddenly had a lot of ideas about making my video more exciting by adding crazy fancy dress outfits. Although, sadly I am on a budget and I don't think I should change my music video pitch dramatically before I have tried out my orginal ideas.
However, I did manage to find two Pink Ladies jackets, which were the last in stock! I am going to get the two 'girlie girls' wearring these in the white background shoot, and I am going to get the main artist to wear a black leather jacket to resmble the T-Birds in Grease! I am going to go more towards the Pink Ladies theme now, and this will enable me to show a strong connection between my music video and digipak. Here is a photo I took of one of the Pink Ladies jackets:

I did consider getting the two 'girlie girls' to wear the pink ladies jacket throughout the video, and the main artist wear a leather jacket throughtout the video. I decided that I want to use different outfits in different locations throughout the video, and that way my music video will seem modern day, and not a remake of the concept of grease. (Just an intertexual reference!)