Production Diary week 25

This week we created our first draft for our video, We didn't have much footage so we couldn't fill the whole video. But we begun to link the lip syncing to the lyrics this is where we came across our first problem as we hadn't expected how difficult it would be, but after lots of try's and cutting the lip syncing down to each lyric at a time we managed to link these well. We also really liked our shisha shots as we felt they reflected the cool vibe of the song really well side by side. Once putting the other narrative shots in we found they got confusing alongside the lip syncing as they was all looking at the camera.

First Draft

Here is the first draft for our music video, this was just experimenting with our first shots. We didn't have enough footage to fill the whole, but we started to link our lip syncing to the lyrics, we really liked the graffiti shots and felt they matched the song. We also like the shisha shots as they matched the cool vibe to our song. We didn't like the narrative shots, as she was looking at the camera so it looked more like a band singing together than two separate parts. I really liked the lip shots and we feel we will use these throughout.

Production diary week 24

The week we filmed our last narrative shots to tie the story together, these included the shots of me getting ready and walking at the beginning, these gave us a more story like feel to the video and i think this will engage the audience more as they will want to follow the story. We experimented alot with different camera angles firsly through the mirror and also walking over the camera, these gave a very interesting look and gave more or a variety to the shots.

Getting ready shots

Here are the shots we took of our narrative getting ready. We took this to put in the video at the beginning to keep the narrative flowing. We experimented alot with using the mirror to get better angles, I think the mirror shots came out really well as they was more interesting than just looking at the camera I think these will help engage by audience and also tie the whole narrative together more. We was really lucky in these shots as the natural lighting really reflected the mirror nicely so we didn't have to worry.

Walking Shots

Here we have taken shots of our narrative walking, this is to tie the beginning of the video together. The shots that worked the best were the shots of girl walking over the camera i think these caused a really life like effect. I found some of the shots where the girl and the camera walk simultaneously a bit unsteady and blury so i don't think we would be able to use these. The lighting didnt effect us too much as we plan to put these shots in black and white.

Production Diary Week 23

This week we continued to work on our digi pack. From our feedback we have found out what photos we should defiantly use, the lips and the floral one. Therefore firstly we tried to add the title onto the digi pack we started with this on the chest of the star, but found it got lost into the kisses and couldn't really be seen. Therefore we created another draft with it to the left, we found this looked much better, as it filled the blank space and didn't get lost within the kisses. Next we decided to focus on the layout and how to ensure where each shot needed to be so they would match together when they was foled. We found out that the CD needed to be in the top center, this meant we could not have the floral photos over two shots as it would then get in the way of the CD, therefore we chose to add another glitter photo, so you could see the styling of these shots aswell as the face make up in the close-up. We also added a lip photo, but as it was at an angle so the CD didn't fit properly. Therefore on the final one I have decided to decorate the CD with animations rather than a photo.

Digi Pack draft 7

Here is the 7th draft of our digi pack, we decided to try to put a picture of lips over the CD so that we could continue the flow of lips. Although I think the lips look slightly disorted, I have also found it hard to find lips that are the right proportion. I also tried a less italic font so that it is more clear.