New Shots!

We have used our footage from what we filmed on Wednesday to make our Music Video More professional. Here are a few print screens of the shots.

This is our opening shot, and it is her lying on the ground singing 'Happiness hit her like a train on a track'. We chose this shot because we feel it creates synergy with our digipack Cover (below). It is also good because we can see her midshot and focus on the lip syncing rather than movement, which is a key part to our grade.

These shots we have used to show the sun, the sun is what we hope to start our Music Video so we want to display it as much as possible throughout.

We love this shot because we can see the lines of the train track and Elle who is playing the girl running from her past. I love this sky as it is a cloudy day yet the sun is overtaking the cloudy sky here. This is symbolism of the Dog Days being over for the protagonist.

This is a shot of Eleanor jumping, again displaying the sun, this is to show innocence, not only does the sun do that by creating a time of day where things are in the light. But also Her Jumping is a free and childish thing to do, again symbolising her happiness and newly found freedom.

For this shot I am sitting on a swing and eleanor is sitting on my lap, we have got some lovely shots from it, where the sun is beaming from her shoulder with the trees behind her, still keeping the same mise en scene but display freedom through the use of movement (as if she is flying in a way) sunlight (innocence) and just the freedom of her movement, even with her hair.

Lighting

When faced with the dilema of how to make our digipack more exciting, dynamic, and overall fitting with our genre I decided that the lighting would make a huge impact. From researching other Artists covers I decided to experiment simply with the lighting to see what creates the desired impact. I think like we should show her as a powerful, beautiful yet also vulnerable woman.

Idea.1 Is to have the lighting pointing down as though she is above it. I like the way it would make her look powerful and very strong. However, I feel like this lacks the vulnerability and innocence of the woman in the song. It makes me look "hard-skinned" which is not the look I think we should go for.

The Second Lighting position was to have the light straight onto her face, although slightly pointing downwards. I love this because you can still see the eyes giving her a stronger, and harder, more powerful look. However, she still looks quite vulnerable because of the light on the face, I think showing almost expressing a "my lips are sealed" kind of attitude. This can be executed in full body aswell which is another good factor as

we want to use the dress Rachel made for us.

This photo is another light on the face, but it is not as good because the light is directly on the face. Compared with the above photo it does not portray strength or even vulnerability. It just doesn't look right!

I like this idea of her looking into the light, as though she is looking into the future, fitting in very well with our concept in our Music Video. Again this is a shot which can be done on a full body photo/shot. The idea of her smiling is also nice, it represents the happier times and parts of our Video and concept as a whole.