Drop Down Day

Today at school we had an opportunity to spend the whole day focusing on one particular subject. As a group we decided to choose media and concentrate on one scene in the music video. For this we decided to go to the quarry and film bits of Abby reaching the cage in the daylight. Because we had all day to shoot we spend around 3 hours getting these particular 20 seconds in many different angles and camera movements/shots. We decided to gather many different shot so we could have a selection to choose from when we decided what would make it into the final cut of the video. The aim of the shoot was to show the main protagonists connection to the cage and show the relevance of the cage in the music video, as from rough cut feedback this is what people wanted to see more of.

The drop down day was very useful in being able to have the time to be more creative with the shots and angles. We have already booked out the camera for the next drop down day as we are hoping to replicate the quality of work we produced for a second time.

Mise-en-Scene clothing influence

Our clothing for the main protagonist is important for us to present her as an ordinary person but with a creepy and uncomfortable edge. Our influence for the main protagonist clothing is from a TV drama called American Horror Story, as this show protrays characters very similar to our lead character in the fact that they are creepy and unstable. In the show their is a particular character which dresses in a way to resembles innocence but also with and edgy and dark side.
As you can see below the character wears dark elaborate clothes, which could reflect her elaborate personality. The use of hats is something that is big in the TV show aswell, and we will take this into consideration for when we plan the leads outfits. Even though the character shows innocence in these photos in the true story line she is shown to be unpredictable and slightly mental, which is why the outfits are perfect style models in our own lead as she also needs to be represented this way.

Mise En Scene Planning

We couldn't figure out how we wanted the main protagonist to look throughout the music video. So to plan it we got Abby to put on different outfits and send photos of them over text message. We all gave our opinions and decided on the outfit that she should wear.

Blog Diary: Week 8

This week we concentrated on the DigiPak and advert mainly. Trying to figure out what styles and layouts we want. We did research and looked at other indie/rock bands CD's and adverts as style models for ours. Having the lead singer at the front and the band making a formation are them. From the adverts we found that they were fairly simple with not to many words. We will take this into consideration and base our own Digipak and adverts on this.

Quarry Filming

Today we filmed at the quarry, we wanted to include Abby into the cage to show our viewers that it is her that puts the people into the cage, therefore we show her viewing the cage, checking to make sure no one can get out and showing the real psychotic side of her, we filmed a range of angles to show her screaming, kicking and punching in the cage. The quarry setting is already included in our rough cut but in the dark with the people Abby has trapped in, Our target audience feedback showes that we needed to show Abby with the cage.

Digi Pak Layout

Our digi pak is a simple layout as with our research we have found that the standard rock/indie digi pak is predominantly simple. We will do this to conform and appeal to the target audience. Have a page for a main band image on the right, the actual designed cd on the left and the front cover in the middle featuring the band image and logo with the band title.

Digi Pak Ideas

This was one of our ideas for the digipak. We feet like the X is a big part of our music video and wanted to incorporate it into our music logo which we would use for the digipak. The designs we came up with, our target audience said that it looked very familiar to this other design of Ed Sheeran and a design from The XX. We will come up with more designs and ask our target audience again to see how they feel about our ideas.