Thursday, 29 September 2011

First Location


With Lucy's (Alice) shots we wanted to begin filming in the forest and show how she is entering another world of her own and how she is starting to feel unease about herself. This is a tracking shot we wanted to show of lucy. The colours work well together as her dress stands out and the forest is left to be natural.
In the forest we wanted a hole where we can put 'Alice' we came across this hole and thought it would be a great idea, lying on the ground to capture this works well. 
This scene was when we told Lucy to become crazy as we wanted to show how "Alice" is getting taken over by her substance and it goes well with the beat. Doing this in the forest works well as she's stood in nature whilst the forest is calm she is not.
This day worked well for us as the weather was on our side so we managed to capture this beautiful shot of the sun coming through the trees to show day of time as we shot this in the morning and how Lucy wakes up.

Example using Andrew Goodwin Theory




Andrew Goodwin theory relates to our video as Eminem uses specific conventions of comedy which he is known to use in the majority of his videos, which the audience will understand and can easily relate to as they will recognize who the celebrities are being portrayed either in a good way or bad way. Eminem uses his own conventions as he carries on with using different celebrities but carrying on as a flow of different series that can relate to the era. This video will fall under comedy category. The lyrics do link in with the visuals, for example when he mentions Kim Kardashian, he highlights her assets which got her famous which his audience will already know her background story and could find this funny as his exaggerated her body. There is a link between the speed of the music and editing, as the chorus is a slower paste and shows him dancing about in each shot, as he begins rapping the shots become faster and he has more dramatic actions. This video features intertextual references as it includes a variety of different media basing it on celebrities who have an impact in 2009 which their career pathways.

entertainment is shown in this music video through many ways but i think the main way that it is shown is comedy with many many references to different films/programs/celebs:


dukes of hazard, Jessica Simpson
American TV show, rock of love
guitar hero
star trek, spok
Kim Kardashian
Lindsay Lohan, Sam
transformers the movie
Ellen, American chat show
the seal of the state of Alaska
Britney Speares
Vegas
psycho, Jessica Alba
Elvis Presley
Amy Winehouse in jail
planet woman

the target audience of this music video i think is teenagers , whom young male teenagers

working with the uses and gratifications theory i think there it only really two points the of this theory that fit in with this video and they are, entertainment this is shown through the comedy part of the video. the other point is escapism this is shown through the video building a comedy world that the audience can escape to.

Friday, 23 September 2011

Props List

List of people involved

Filming/Editing/Set/Costume: (Above)


Featuring in Video:
- Lead Singer Male - Roger Dos Santos
- Lead Female playing as Alice - Lucy Hyner
- Group of Teenagers: Louise Ashena, Lauren Williams, Leigh O'Leary, Jazmine Sines, Michael Kealy, Chidi Abraham, Daniella Murdoch, Charlie Holt, Tommy Bowdery, Sam Goodman, Sam Ibraham, Emma Howard, Chloe Bradshaw, Katie Thompson, Charlie Allison, Scott Middleton, Scott Robe, Kamilla Mcdonald, Kieran Wright. These people will be included in our house party scenes where it will take place at Lucys house. 

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Analysis of digipaks


With this digipak (Above) you can see how the artist is shown throughout the digipak and that the theme stays the same, the writing is all the same font and so is the artist with the face-paint. They have also included a quote from the artist and information about the songs.

Comparing to the other digipak, this one (above) has the band spread out and showing them more naturalistic than posing for a camera face on. The cd has their band name instead of another picture but still blends in well with the band. The set out is targeted towards their audience showing how their also spend their free time.


Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI Media, a MeadWestvaco, Inc. resource, which acquired the original trademark holder, IMPAC Group, Inc., in 2000. MeadWestvaco licensed the name and designs to manufacturers around the world.

Above is a template of a digipak and how you would want the layout and design to be like, most artist always include some lyrics inside and all the people invovled in making the songs. They normally have their images on the front and back. Above is some examples of artist digipaks.

Friday, 16 September 2011

Planning

Characters:
Choosing to do our music video Example - Stay awake, deciding on who should be our lead singer and what other characters should be invovled. As a group we decided to use Roger Dos Santos (Pupil from our school) he fitted best to sing for our video, he already does music and knows how to become a certain character we needed him to be for this type of music video. The theme became all about Alice in the wounderland and how we can portray her through this music video and inlcude a new generation to the story of how alice can be stuck in her own world, one of our members in the group Lucy Hyner became another actor in our music video. We than decided these were our main two characters.
Costume:
Wanting Roger in Black and white throughout the music video it was best decided that he would be dressed in a plain grey t-shirt and black skinny jeans with a snapback hat to represent his album cover called "The league of a Champion". With Alice we wanted her in the blue and white dress throughout the video but she would be in colour adding different accessories each time we film.
Locations:
With Roger the location will be held in the green room, With Lucy (Alice) our first location will be in the forest in Belmont where we can shoot her going crazy and walking down into the forest. Another location we want to film in is in Camden Town as it fits right in with our theme.