In today's lesson after Laxmi created the script for us to read alongside our PowerPoint presentation for our pitch on Monday, we decided who would be reading certain parts of the PowerPoint with the hand out to read from.
I have three slides to talk about we all divided the pitch up separately so everyone has an equal and talk about our artist and digipak. My first slide to talk about is the concept for the digipak this going to give our fellow students and teacher who are artist is and some brief information about her, such as: fashion, career so far and the reason for her album. Also the second slide tells the audience the narrative for the music video. Finally my final slide of the pitch that I am sharing with the audience is about why we have chosen that certain narrative and how it will connect with her fans/target audience.
In Wednesday's lesson me and my group started to begin our storyboard for our music video. We had the music video up for the song so we could listen to it while creating certain scenes and shots, also we had the lyrics up also. This was because we were using Goodwin's theory of their being a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, this is not in all parts of the music video but in some shots. Also we used the song playing alongside so we could match the beat of the song to create emotions and build up.
We finally finished are first draft of our storyboard for the music video with annotations and drawings. In addition we have used timings slot from the actual song found next to certain shots/parts of the music video, this is so we know when we want specific things to be shown, start and end. The lyrics to relate to the visuals on the screen are also included on the storyboard. This is only are first draft for our music video so the drawings are very basic and some parts of what we are going to include in the music video are still a bit faint, however we have a structured narrative for the music video and know what we want to show the audience, through the young ballet dancer and the artist performing in the video.
I created a group chat on Facebook, this was so we could all discuss and plan ideas outside of lesson time so we can still communicate easily. It has helped us plan the test shoot for our digipak and this was the main reason for creating it.
However now I believe we can use this group chat through our coursework so we can keep in contact when we are not in school and discuss more planning ideas. Also I think we are going to create a new group including the model for our artist, Poppy. This is so she can be involved when we are planning photo shoots on what day and times so we can know when she is available to do them. Also planning her costume for the shoot and hair etc.
When we was at Danson Park doing the shoot for the Digipak we was talking about the photos and me being the artist for the music video as well. We all agreed that we wanted to amplify the Pop feel and look more in our photos with a new artist and I strongly agreed with this because I also want to have more involvement behind the camera.
A girl in the year below, Poppy who is also in sixth form, she does media and photography has a keen interest in both of these subjects and we believed she would make the perfect artist. She has the look of young and innocent and blonde hair which is stereotypical to similar artist we have looked at. Whilst being at the shoot I messaged her and asked if she would help us out with being the model for the digipak/poster and being in the music video, she came back with being more than happy to help us out. We have a new artist and I believe now are creating a very strong artist profile even more now with this change of artist.
These photos were not taken by our group.
Through are group chat using the social media website, Facebook with planned a test shot to take place at a local park which was close to all of us, Danson Park. More specifically we wanted to take the digipak test shots in the 'Rose Garden' within Danson Park which is a small garden with pathways and a range of lowers and trees that are well looked after. We believed this would make a perfect and ideal setting for our test shots because of the colourful flowers and beautiful backdrop. Also prior to turning up on location I sent images of outfit opitons to my group of what I should wear and we agreed on this outfit(right) to be the outfit for the shoot. However we decided to change the heels for converse, this was due to that we felt the converse made her more young and appeal to our target audience more.
Whilst the shoot was taking place we all had roles to fulfil, my roles was to be the artist, Isabel Beau for her album, Aaron was mostly in charge of photography but also Laxmi took some shots. Hayley and Laxmi were the stylist for topping up make up and thinking of poses for the different photos. We took over 300 photos in different locations and different places within in the 'Rose Garden' these included: closes up, mid shots, wide shots and long shots etc. In addition whilst showing her to be a young and bubbly Pop artist we also wanted to create in some shots, 'voyeurism' for men to appeal to look at her because this is seen in the majority of Pop albums such as: Rihanna, Beyonce and Pixie Lott.
Below are some of my favourite images from the shot:
Before half term I had a one on one conversation feedback with my one of my teachers about my blog while looking through it on the computer. This is the recording of the discussion we had.
This is a final for for our pitch on Monday, we sent all our separate parts of the pitch to Aaron and he merged them all together to create a final one. Our teacher looked over our presentation and said there were a few minor changes to be done and it will be done for monday.
