Sketches of digi pack ideas

Here are our first digi pack ideas, we have taken inspiration from the photo shoot shots we have already taken. On the first one we have taken shots from that using artist and her friends with the props. We have reflected on these and think that these may become confusing again between star and narrative. We also think that the focus needs to be mainly of the star and not her friends, which I think is lost in our first idea.

Our second idea we have tried to use the same look of a photo shoot but in more of a focus on the star, therefore we have different shots of her in locations used in the video, such as graffiti wall and the bridge. We have also changed the main photo shoot idea of jus the artist not with friends, but we have left one with friends but think we could have the friends in black and white and her in colour to make her stand out more. 

Production Diary Week 17

This week we took more shots of our narrative, partying with friends. Since looking at theses shots we have decided not to use them. We realised the narrative was looking at the camera too much, this again made it confusing with the artist and narrative was. Also the lighting was very dark and dim which didn't fit in with our bright theme we have used throughout. We also decided that partying showed an older angle of our narrative so decided to make her do more teen activities so that it could fit the song more and beat more, also this allowed us to reflect a lot on the keys words we had chosen before for our video.

Party shots

In these shots we created a party vibe for our narrative, we chose her to be one friend, we showed them doing normal teenage things such as drinking and dancing, We also did shots with UV paint to reflect the colorful theme we was going throughout. We had a lot of problems filming these shots, firstly due to the lack of room we had, this made the variety of angles and long shots limited. Also the lighting wasn't ideal as we couldn't make the most of natural lighting and their wasn't room for our own lighting.

In the end we decided that we was not going to use these shots, firstly because of the lack of quality but also because we decided to re image our narrative. Up until this point we had tried to portray them as a more mature teenager's but we found these shots were not working, so we have decided to image them as more young happy teenagers as we feel this would reflect the song lyrics and beat more
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Production Diary Week 16

This week we started to edit our first shots we took in London. We started to brighten them and increase the contrast to make them stand our more as we had lost a lot of lighting, we experimented with short and long shots, from our research we had found that we needed to use more short shots and therefore felt we should take more lip syncing in varied locations so that it didn't get boring and so that we could use small parts of each shot.
This week we also retook our photo shoot shots for the real thing with different people, these came out better than the practice shots, due to the setting being more white and clear and the lighting reflecting on the people better, we also styled all our artist in dark clothing so the props would stand our more. We started to edit these to the beat of the song which at first was a struggle as it can be hard to hear the beat but after practise we found it easier, we feel like editing to beat worked well and we would like to do this to more of our shots.

Photo shoot

Here are our photo shoot shots, we think the narrative looks much relaxed in these rather than the practice shot, also we have incorparated much more colour into these ones using the red and blue props. Also the white background and black styling of the clothes really helps them to stand out.

Production Diary Week 15

This week we begun filming our first shoots, we did these in London we begun doing shots of our artist singing infront of graffiti and with sky scrapper background. We also filmed our narrative in a shisha bar and also messing around in fountains. We got shots of our narrative infront of the graffiti too. From these shots we realised the struggles of filming in busy places, so therefore have gone back to our storyboard and considered different places that are less open to the public we could film. We also decided we wanted the shots between the narrative and artist to be in different places so the two did not get confused. Therefore from now on we will decide who will be filmed in each place before we go. The shots we found worked best were the shots infront of the bright graffiti and also the narrative shots, as both of these reflected the cool trendy vibe we was aiming for, for our artist and star,

Graffiti shots

Here are our shots infront of the graffiti, we really loved this location as their was lots of colour and it was very bright. As with our other shots we had to chose whether to use our lipsycing or narrative shots in this location, as from feedback we found using both could get confusing. Therefore we have chose our lip syncing as she seemed much more natural infront of the camera, and this took away the added confusion of the narrative looking at the camera.