New Make Up and Costume For Actress.

We have three dresses in our video. One is green which we will use Taylor Swift inspired make up with (from her video Teardrops On My Guitar).

We also have an orange cocktail dress in which we want to use Megan Fox inspired make up.

Make Up For Our Actress

When it came to choosing our actress we wanted somebody who was naturally pretty with a fresh look and someone who looked young but still mature. We used the girl from our second attempt at the video but decided to take a different take on her make up. We have attached a picture of our lead girl.

Practising Ideas

When we had some free time in between re doing our video, we experimented with using slow motion to go with music. We also looked for a character using something iconic (in the video, the 1960's style dress, cigarette and hair) we experiment with what they would look like. Again here we experimented our editing skills in order to created a different effect with the same footage. another thing we looked at was make up that was less natural looking instead or our original 'natural and fresh' look.

Replanning for Attempt 3

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In planning for our third attempt at the video, we looked at three different music videos which were: Britney Spears - Someday, Taylor Swift - Teardrops on My Guitar, Beyonce - Broken Hearted Girl. Through watching all of these videos we were inspired to capture the style of them and reinvent them into our own.

Second Attempt at Music Video

On Saturday 17th October 2009, We attempted the second version of the music video. We hired out Emmanuel Church, in Wimbledon Village and was helped by local friends and local event company called Clownfish Events.

We started at 10 in the morning, and set our lights and set up. Our main actress arrived with several extras at 11. Shooting went on till 4. It was a big project because we needed good lighting, to light the huge room and also big industrial fans to blow petals in the sequence.

We used a wheel barrow to use for our tracking shot. One of us sat in the wheel barrow - whilst being moved with one camera and the other stood in the balcony of the church with the second camera to get high angle shots.

At the end of the 3 hours, we only achieved 30 minutes of footage, because the production of the scene was very difficult. We had to keep hoovering up the rose petals every time in order to do the shot again.

Toward the end of the day, we realised perhaps this idea was too big the the song and by 4pm we 'called it a day'.

We enclose two edits of the opening sequence for the music video 'Tonight'.

We attach two piece of music to the two edits so that it would piece together nicely.

Research

In August, I created the first edit of the music video. I did this by myself and learnt a lot from it. I was too literal connecting the lryics with the action and it didnt't sell the artist herself enough. It ended up looking like more than a movie than a music video. So from the mistakes I made the first way round, I learnt from them and it has massively improved my media skills.
I have attached here the first edit of 'Tonight'.
Abigail Bell