Last blog & a little something extra

This is our final vlog!



A goodbye picture!

and a little something extra..




Enjoy!

Vlog Update!

A quick vlog update on how we are doing, how far we have progressed and what stage of editing and filming we are at at the moment.

Similar Music Videos!

As previously mentioned before we have decided that our music video will be focused mainly on the psychopathic behaviour of our female character and does no hold a specific narrative as it is more a visual viewing of her stages of mental illness. So we wanted to capture our concept through the use of lighting, mise en scene, cinematography and obviously editing and while creating more ideas as a group on what techniques we should use and finally filming the scenes we wanted I found similar concepts in other relevant music videos.

 Rihanna was the main artist that I researched first as I knew she only recently released a music video to her single 'what now' taken from her latest album unapologetic which, when watching again, has very similar characteristics to our music video. She uses similar mise en scene to us such as the stereotypical white room and dull, plain clothing and the contrast with another scene with dark clothing. Also the same demented feel is captured and conveyed through the video as we have tried to capture in our room shots. Like rihannas video where they only shot her scenes in two locations a black and a white room, we also kept it simple by sticking to three locations, an open field, white room and forty hall so we could focus more on capturing our characters emotions than busy surroundings. Also in her video she uses overlaying shots a lot which we have used to create more effect and relate to her mental state more.





Also two of Rihannas older music videos, 'Disturbia' which was released in 2008 from her album 'good girl gone bad: Reloaded' and 'Russian Roulette' released in 2009 from her album 'Rated R' also share the same similarities bwteen the concepts of the music videos. Using Rihanna to act in psychotic ways and convey her as disturbed or on the verge of insanity. Again using similar qualities such as the dark, dreary colours and white rooms, quick shots and flashing lights which we have also included in our music video. The use of the overlay shots really works in all three of these video and adds a sense of disorientation, as does the flicking and flashing of lights, in our case we used strobe lights to add this effect while filming, which we have also wanted to capture in our video and have been making progress with while editing. These videos have been really inspiring for us and given us even more ideas on what we could do and add to our own music video.

Sneek Peek!

These are just a few bits I've put together from our filming days and some of the footage you will see in our final music video once we have finished editing.. (ignore the messy room and the beautiful singing from us all!)

Filming day!

So we also added another location, Forty Hall, where we decided we would get some natural shots of hannah in a stable mental state and of her lip syncing. We all thought that it would look better if in our music video she was lip syncing in her stable state and not in her psychiatric state and this would then contrast her mindsets, even though we have still captured hannah lip syncing during the psychiatric shots just in case.

After we headed to my house to get the last shots of hannah in a look a like of a psychiatric ward having a breakdown and going crazy!
Just a few piccys of our day..

          

         

      

           

      

New Idea!!

So for our new idea we have decide to use hannah as the protagonist who is mentally ill and has a psychological problem which is highlighted through all our shots. We have two main locations, the first location is in a large field, it may sound unoriginal and quite stereotypical but we all decided that this scenery would work best for the shots we wanted, the field was also flooded.. just what we needed as you will see later on. Our second location is in my bedroom which we are currently painting white and turning into a psychiatric ward like room and will be hopefully filming there on wednesday when its all sorted. Below are some pictures from our first filming session, we should be finished filming by next week which gives us enough time to edit all of it even though we have already started editing what we have filmed.

Hannah before filming..

and after..

Alicia pre filming..

The muddy conditions we needed to film in..

Big Change!

So this is our vlog on how we've changed our whole idea including the song and why we've decided to change all our ideas so late in the day but no worries, we've got this!