Change of song

I have recently been told that we are changing our song, this is difficult for us as most groups have already finished filming.  However we have not even started, I was not in the lesson on friday but Annabel has told us that the song Use Somebody is too slow for editing, therefore we needed to change it.  we chose to stick with Pixie Lott, so chose one of her other songs either Cry Me Out or On The Edge.  Cry Me Out has the same meaning to the lyrics as Use Somebody, so its most likely we will chose that one.

Location Test shots

Whilst some of the group were the lesson on Friday me and Tomi decided to do some location shots, this is where we are going to be filming and we hope the weather will stay the same as the weather on this day was perfect.

 These pictures are of my room and inside of my house this will be used for the first part of the video.

 These two pictures are of the outside of my house in case we need either character here.

 These picture are of Alexandra palace and we will be using Alexandra palace for all our outside scenes.

CHANGE OF SONG!

My group and I understand that we are approaching the filming deadline, many other groups are onto finishing off their filming whilst we have only just made this sudden change.

On fridays lesson, before we broke up for october half term, our teacher Annabell told us that using the song Use Somebody is far too slow to edit to. She told us to reconsider our options whether to keep it or not, we had no time to waste so we had to make the decision there and then. Wishing she had told us earlier we still decided to follow up on a teachers advice (someone who knew what they were talking about) and so we agreed to changed the song. It was best to choose another song of Pixie Lott so that most of our blogs would not go to waste - like the artist research. After half the lesson gone already we reviewed all her songs and it came down to two:

On The Edge (Pixie Cover)

Cry Me Out (Pixie Original)

Both of these songs relate to love and relationships, like it does to our previous chosen song Use Somebody, we feel that because of this, we would not have make dramatic changes to our planning, just some tweaks here and there. The concept slightly changes as well as the gender of the actor. We will still keep the base track as well as our chosen locations.
We will be posting up more blogs of our 'Planning of Music Video' to the new song Cry Me Out.

Planning for Music Video: LIP SINGING PRACTICE 2.

So right, its been a week since my last lip singing video and like I said on that video, I will be posting up another one...which is this. Enjoy! :D

Honestly my english is terrible. Can never make sense of myself in front of a camera! :(

Apologies everyone!

Production of music video-Skills development

Planning the music video, I have found a lot more stressful, not knowing many people in my group it was hard to get to grips with what we all wanted to do.  As our planning is coming along a lot better it is getting easier.  Picking the song was one of the easy things to do as well as choosing our locations.  Choosing props, costume, make-up and hair, I think was easy for all of us as we all had the same sort of images in our head, and it planned very well. However finding time for all of us to film was extremely difficult as well as the fact that the cameras were not available when we wanted them. So we have all done some test shots which will be put up on the blog.  This enables us to do even more planning so when it finally comes down to filming we will be 100% ready and organised.  This years planning for me was defiantly more difficult and stressful than last year, but hopefully this will not show in our final film.

Song lyrics-Duration of song

The duration of the song is 3 minutes 12 seconds long.

Here is is the lyrics with how long they last, in seconds.

Use Somebody - Pixie Lott

Make-up, Hair and Costume for Charlenes character/the artisit

Charlenes make-up is to be very fresh faced,clean and young.  We will not use much face make-up or eye make-up maybe just a little bit of blusher and bronzer to make her image more sweet and innocent.












As Charlenes hair is quite short our options our limited, so we will most probably stick to having her hair down in a natuaral middle parting with her hair wavey rather than straight.  With maybe some flowers in her hair.

We then have decided to choose Charlenes costume as fluid and very indie styled.  Such as little dresses lots of pastel colours and maybe some flower prints, for shoes she may wear little boots or pumps, and if its cold then a baggie sort of cardigen with lots of accesories such as rings and necklesses.