Another previous A2 music video analysis

More rough ideas for our band's CD cover and back

Hi everyone, today Elsie thought that it would be a good idea to add our band members to our CD's front cover (as it is quite common for artists to appear on the front of their albums, as it is a way to promote themselves). In a previous lesson, Tammy bought up the fact of how she liked it when she saw that bands were actually shown on the front cover of their albums. She said that she liked it when they were shown facing the front on the front cover, and then the back of them was shown on the back cover. Therefore, Elsie came up with a rough idea, where on our own CD, the band could be facing forward (although a lot of their faces wouldn't be shown, due to them not really being shown much in our music video). She then though that it would be a good idea to then show the band on the back cover, as if they were facing away. Elsie then went and drew a rough draft of this idea to see how it would look (and she thought that we could incorporate this into our CD by having the band looking upwards towards the falcon (one of our previous ideas we have talked about) on the front cover, and then the band looking at the track list on the back of the CD.

Here is the rough sketch that Elsie drew of this idea:

Sixth day of filming- Final music video

Today was our final day of filming for our final music video. We filmed from around 3:30pm to 5:30pm and remembered to book all the equipment we needed (DLSR) along with the props (black dress, white cardigan, picture of the boy and the small box which his photo was kept in).

Here is what we filmed: 

• We re-shot the girl opening the box with a picture of the boy in it. We decided to do this again as we found it difficult to match the lighting with other shots when we were editing. We found that the reason for this was that the original shot was recorded at Elsie's house in natural lighting, while the shots following it were shot at Tammy's house, where the lighting was more artificial.
• We re-shot the shot of me throwing the picture picture of the boy, as in editing, we found that the original shot was quite blurry and the paper didn't fit well within the frame. The shot was also too fast, meaning that it was pretty unnoticeable that it was paper that was being thrown (the picture of the boy). To fix this problem we filmed a variety of shots ranging from a close- up of my hand before throwing the picture, as well as a long shot of when it was flying in the air.
• Finally, we re-shot the close-up of Tammy's mid shot for the beginning of the music video (when shots of all 3 girls are shown). We decided to re-shoot this, as when comparing it to the shots of myself and Elsie, we found that the lighting was different (the shots of Elsie and I had a much darker background while our faces were lit up). However, Tammy's original shot was too light for our liking. To fix this problem, we made sure that we got rid of some of the lamp lighting that we used in the room so as it did not interfere with how bright the shot was overall. We also re-positioned the torch which Tammy was holding (trying it in a variety of places and angles to see where it would look best). 

Here are some screenshots of what we filmed:

Sixth day of filming- Shooting schedule

Here is a shooting schedule for our sixth day of filming. Here we have listed what we need, what time we will be filming and what shots we want to film etc.

Behind the scenes & Outtakes- Final music video

So we decided that it would be fun to make a quick vlog which included some behind the scenes and outtakes from filming our final music video (days 1-5)

Here it is:

Fith day of filming- Final music video

Today we filmed again at Tammy's house from around 4:00pm - 6:00pm. Again, we remembered to bring all of the props and costumes that we needed (black dress with white cardigan, bag and flannel shirt), along with the equipment (DLSR camera and tripod).

What we filmed:

• We decided to film the shot of Elsie running up the stairs again, as in editing we noticed that she had forgotten to carry the shirt and bag (which would cause problems with the continuity within our narrative).
•  The shots of Elsie punching the wall is also something which we decided to film again, as the previous ones that we had filmed did not look like a smooth action (like we wanted them to look)..
• A long shot of Elsie sliding down the wall.
• An extreme close-up of Elsie clenching her hair in frustration.
• A close-up of Elsie clenching my fist.
• A close up of Elsie's teary eyes (we used mascara here, and decided to smear it down her face to make it look as if she had been crying.
• A long shot and an over the shoulder shot of Elsie throwing clothes in anger.
• We then decided to shoot a stop motion footage that we had planned to match to the lyrics 'Ugly is the'. For this, I drew a silhouette of a girl holding an umbrella with the rain pouring down (while each rain drop will appear in each frame, to make it look as if it is raining on her).
• Finally, we decided to film the lip syncing part for Tammy and I again. We wanted to do this as in editing we found that when it came up to linking up to the music, it looked as if we were both saying different things for the line 'Who is your lover?'
• A shot of Elsie turning the torch on (which will be used for the instrumental at the beginning of the music video, before the singing starts). 

Here are some screenshots of what we did today: