Costume Research

The Costume in which we have chosen for the performance aspect of the video fit in very well with the generic conventions of the genre of female rock/pop/punk. Our performer and also group member, Victoria, is to wear a long, white T-Shirt, a black cardigan and black leggins, red doc martins and a necklace. Her hair is styled quite naturally besides the blue colour.

For the story side of the video we have decided to have group member Liz act the story part, The costume will consist of slightly casual, but dressesd up style for the high street filming. This will be to reflect her celebrity-esque image. We have also decided to have her in a different outfit for the derelict building scenes. In this part of the film we have decided to film with Liz in a red dress, as the scenery would make this look more dramatic.

Update on Progress on Filming

We decided that it would be a good time to update out blog with information on the progress we were making on filming our music video.

At the moment we are starting to put the raw footage we have collected on our story board and trying to start piecing the music video together in a sequence. So far we have shot the performance parts of the roof, by using a mixture of shots, including tracking shots and a variety of mid and close ups. Within this we have made sure that the shots have continuity by ensuring costume is the same throughout, and trying to film on days when the weather is similar. We have found have found the weather has been one of the problems which we have faced, due to it being autumn the weather is unpredictable and we are vast approaching winter.When we were out filming, during a lesson, we found that the weather was too grim and foggy to film on a rooftop where we were filming, as we couldn’t see any of the buildings or scenery in the distance. The weather was also windy, making it difficult to film. We are going to ensure that we go and capture as much footage as we can, and we will soon start working on our storyline aspect of our video.

Location Research

For our music video we had three types of locations for the different parts of the video. 1st of we had the idea of an urban rooftop for the performance scenes of the video. We decided on this as the type of music is very modern so would require a more modern feel to its locations. Also a rooftop would give an excellent variation of shots as it would be looking over a city/town. We started to research and look for some good locations for the performance in town centre. Town centre has a range of different buildings and lots of rooftops which were accessible. In the end we decided on the rooftop of shude-hill bus station. The picture below is off the rooftop we decided on.

This rooftop was also a car park which consisted of a lot of raps that we could use in different ways in our video. There is a large ramp with a railing along it. This we used as an advantage ion our video for the performer to jump of to add some excitement. The car park also has a lot of painted lines and markings which added colour and an urban feel to it. Looking out of the building there was an excellent view of the city which works extremely well with the mise-en-scene which was great for location shots.

For the storyline of the music video we had three different locations. The 1st was a busy local area, Town center. This location helped with the urban feel to the video and more of an upbeat area to match the music style. We were able to get a lot of experimental shots from this area, such as speeded up shots to give the busy feel to the video. The second location was an abandoned building in Ancotes. This location was great for a comparison to the busy street shots. The abandoned location was covered in green moss and graffiti which worked well with Liz’s red dress the way the two things contrasted looked great in the video. Below you can see and image of the location.

Finally as a third locating we filmed Liz inside instead of outside to add range to our shots. We filmed her against a green screen with a camera taking images of her to show that she was in a photo shoot; this helped the storyline of the video so the viewer could tell she was a famous character.