Thursday, 20 March 2014

Email to artist


This was an email to Dillon our artist contacting her for her permission to use her song. We found the email on her official website but we received now reply from her but if any problems occur we will simply have to change the song and use what was our 2nd choice.

After our 4th filming

This is just a little collage of photos we took whilst we was at the beach and is something that we again could look at using when creating website and digipak. I really love the bottom right picture and could definitely be used as a panel in our digipak.

So this was our beach filming the setting for this was just perfect. The time we had went meant that the sun was still out and bright but wasn't too powerful, the natural lighting really enhanced all our shots.We filmed at southend beach as is the beach that is closest to us and we are most familiar with.It was an extremely productive day and we managed to get all of the footage we planned for, we film a large chunk of the lyrics. Although it was a really nice day it was still so cold! walking through the water and cold sand didn't really help either but the footage we gained from this again was all worth it and was such a large chunk of our video. We planned our hair and make up to create a floaty and effective look and we definitely reached this we were really happy how the dress fitted so nicely with the footage. The only problems we had was that we couldn't get the tripod to steady very well but we tried our best and used the stairs to create a flat surface and Faye eventually just bega holding the legs of the tripod which worked pretty well. but apart from that it was a really productive day and we got all our footage within an hour and a half.

New merchandise

We re looked over our merchandise because we thought we needed to make a few more products and realised that we actually didn't like it anymore, So we began changing it it.We thought the previous one just looked unprofessional and not something that fans would actually want to wear. So we began creating a logo for our artist and we got inspiration from Lady Gaga's art pop album art, although hers was a different style with distorted sections, different images and her within the image. We re created this using pictures we previously were going to use for our website and apples with added effects which put all together with a collage program and a black background. I think the finished products are really effective and just work really well they also present what our artist is like. Within the merchandise we have; posters, towels, mugs, lipstick, knickers, hoodies, eyelashes, baby grows, bags, women's top and vest, men's tops. I think making such a varied amount of merchandise means there's something for everyone at affordable prices. We created lip stick and eyelashes especially because within our video i am wearing lipstick and eyelashes in 90% of the shots so we wanted to make it a trade market thing with our artist. Were really pleased that we did re design the merchandise and didn't just leave it because i think this line gives us much more of a professional finish and helped within our website and didgipak.


Storyboard

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'Filling in the gaps' kind of filming

So when we re watched our video and what section were up to we realized which small gaps we are missing and could be improved on. So we wrote out in a word document which lyric we needed, time in the song it is.


This filming we filmed again in Faye's house, her mum loves candles and small home features so her bath worked really well with what we wanted, there was small tea light, large and small candelabras and a sculpture. When starting filming we had sat down together and watched a lot of different music videos a lot of the emotional videos included the same settings as our; forest, beaches and one we had not included bedrooms but one that stood out and realistic we could use was a bath. So then from that because a lot of our footage has been very low key we added candles and it all just fell into place and just worked really nicely.

When filming we made sure we were very careful with the candles making sure we didn't burn ourselves or set fire to our hair!we kept the camera away from the water and if it came close held it very tight with strap available. With this filming we were cautious and aware of everything

Only problems we had when we were filming is that because we had actually run the bath i was sat in it got so hot in the bathroom that it made it harder to breath so lip syncing was a little bit harder to do, you'll see in our bleep out video how i run out of breath. But we got all our footage and that is the most important thing.