Feedback

During lesson time, Alice and i presented our present, blogged, ideas to our peers in order to find out what the general audience feedback was and see what possible ideas other people had..

Lauren from our class and a few others thought that the relationship between the characters wasnt best suited to the lyrics, and they interpreted a more accepting boyfriend who was letting go of his girlfriend in the understanding that he knew she was sick.

 From this Alice and i discussed the narrative of our video, and from class suggestions, thought about changing the storyboard so that in the video, the characters are shot in different time zones. The audience is in the present of the girl dieing with the male watching her in the bathroom and saying goodbye, but then during the male lip sync hes shot in the bathroom on his own looking at the bath as if shes there, but shes not...

Filming styles

I played our track over this video and although it doesnt always fit i loved the business of the video against the slow intro, and i also loved the layout of the screen and the way it was split into sections. This led me to then research the video below, which when played over our track fitted quite well, and the video itself followed a similar idea to the first; where the scenery was divided into sections, although this time is was blended more..



I loved this frame below, its different and could be used to show four different time in one persons life..



Shes mostly gone

Some other place

I'm getting by

In other ways

These lyrics could link to the video showing different activities he does to get by, showing them on screen all at once! However it may be easier to re-create this effect using a similar style to the first video where the screen is split by a white background.

Different music videos

This was a find by Mr.W and its similar in genre to ours. The black and white generates quite a simple impression, and makes the hollowness of the setting more noticable. I like the way the camera frames the artist..

Her emotion is shown through body language and facial expression, without knowing the lyrics, you can immediatly tell her unhappiness. I also like the way the camera is out of focus on the background imagery and only highlights the lines of her face and hands, it connotes a sence of solitude, as if she doesnt feel she has a place in her surroundings.



Alice then mentioned this recent video and commented on its setting and camera angles. She likes the framing of the starry night and quoted that it fits

"And I am here right beside you
The lights in the sky
Are waving goodbye
I am staying right beside you"

And to add to this, i found that the intro is also very fitting to what we wanted, with the low angle sequence of the lady's legs walking down the street. I think it introduces her in quite a steriotypical way, by panning up her body the viewer can see her figure, which objectifies her and immediatly puts her in the male gaze..

Location

I now have the location for our music video sorted, and i have tried to include photos that represent the camera angles we will be using.

Bathroom inspiration

The bathroom were going to use wont be as neglected as this, but the idea of squallar is similar.

Both alice and i are looking at camera angles which we think will be beneficial to the genre of the video. Close ups are going to be quite heavily used to frame to surroundings of the charatcer, and highlight the lack of repsect for her home.

This low angle shot of the female on the floor is really inspireing, and we will be including similar angles to symbolise the weakness in her mind and body, and also the feeling of being grounded and submurged by life.

Female Makeup and bath scene ideas

These are makeup ideas. We want smudged running makeup, to intensify the emotion and lackof self respect the female character has

This last photo is a perfect camera angle to capture the squallar she lives in, and added to the female character in a white dress its the perfect example of the scene we are trying to create.

Representations of decadant lifestyles

Both Alice and i have a strong vivid imagery of what we want our female to look like and the characteristics she is to adopt. Although no drug abuse is viewed in our video, we want the character to depict that 'type'.
Alice has already drawn on a strong current celebrity in the news ' Amy Winehouse '
I have now broardened our search by finding another celeb Courtney Love, who is a blonde skinny middle aged female, with a history of drug abuse. And a string of photos to capture her worst moments...

 The makeup is heavy and draws on her cracked lips and heavy drug abuse. From this i think to really bring out the features of our female character we should use heavy eye makeup to intensify the physical features of drug abuse.