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

Album Cover Research.

06th October 2009 - Album Cover Research

We have just been researching album covers and have come across some of Kate Walsh's own album covers, which is a great help seeing as she is the artist of our track. We have also researched some of Adele, Norah Jones and Lisa Hannigan's album covers because they are similar artists to Kate Walsh and make the same genre of music. Because our track is very slow, mellow and relaxed we don't think it would be appropriate to have a big, colourful, extravagant album or single cover. We think we would have to keep our cover as simple and neutral as possible. Possibly quite a close-up photograph of our artist alone, looking very natural and neutral.

06th October 2009

Yesterday during class Abbie and myself were discussing who to cast for our music video. During the research we found someone perfect for our video but unfortunately the girl who we wanted to use has now got braces which could not work because of mise-en-scene. We went through a whole list of possible people to cast yesterday during lesson but have not come to a conclusion as of yet. I am now researching album covers and looking at ideas and influences for our artists album cover. 

30th September 2009

Today we decided for Abbie to go and take pictures of our chosen location as she lives very near to it whilst i work on our blog. We have decided to use a church as our main location of our music video. As the song is very slow and mellow and also quite innocent it would suit very well to be shot in a church. We are unsure of who to cast yet but we have a vague idea of what we want. We would like a young female, dressed in a wedding dress and looking very upset and lonely in a big church, she has been stood up by her fiance. We was thinking of having a few shots of the "groom" who hasn't turned up to the church but we are unsure if this is nessecary or not. We may just keep the focus on the one girl. I am now working on our storyboard.

29th September 2009

Today we are disscussing a new idea for our music video, we have decided to film in a church as if it is a wedding