Filming Diary- shoot 2 (23/12/13)

Dear Filming diary,

Emily and I decided to meet today to film for both of our music videos, seen as we are in each others. I chose to film my bath scene today. I asked Emily to bring a white shirt to wear during the bath scene. I created dramatic make-up with smokey eyes so that when underwater the colour would run and would look like she was crying. I made sure that the water temperature was warm enough to allow emily to stay in the bath without becoming cold. 

I filmed from many angles and to add effect on one of my scenes i placed photographs of my childhood on the wall to then take of one at a time in different videos. Once the videos were placed next to each other and placed it made them look t=like they were just disappearing from the wall by magic. This effect looked really cool and i cannot wait to see this once i have edited it. 

I added leaves into the water to keep the story of the abandoned home going allowing continuity within the music video. As Emily is wearing a shirt that just covers her bum it could link to Laura Mulvey's theory of the Male Gaze. This would make Emily seen as a sexual object to men but when watching existing examples of media texts and music videos by the most famous music artists the bath scene has become an ideology of female artists to perform in. I do not want emily to be seen as a sexual object however so have tried to go again Mulvey's theory by editing the colour of the shot so that you cannot see her underwear through the shirt once it becomes wet. 

Great day filming again.

xoxo

I went out to take primary photos of my locations that I want to film at for my music video, but I came across an idea of filming in a different location to what I originally wanted. I wanted to film at the Humber bridge view point, but instead had an idea to film at boothferry bridge overlooking the ooze bridge.
 I wanted to take a range of photos, which with my phone you can hold a button and it takes 88 photos in a row, so each is almost identicle instead whatever changes in the shot is captured in the photo. So when I chose the specific images I wanted from my selection I then put them together on Imovie and realised that it turned into a video.
You can tell when it moves more easily as it is loads of images put together, but it looks really effective and whacky, which is a stereotype of my audience. When I placed them together to make my short clip I went onto effects and decided to add a rough washed effect over the top of every image, and so it looks like an old video.
 I really liked this idea and was happy that I decieded to do it when on location. I am going to use this in my music video and hopefully create more clips like this.

Filming diary- shoot 1 (13/12/13)

Dear filming diary,

seen as this is a diary of what i will be filming on each shoot, i have decided to write as if i was writing into a diary, so enjoy.

Today i filmed my Green screen room scenes. Firstly i filmed my make-up shoot with Emily and have placed it below. This took around 1 hour to prepare my artists hair and make-up along with setting the props needed for the shoot.

My props consisted of a black poofed skirt to act like a black cloud, a dark knitted jumper along with a body con denim dress as her costume, make-up with smokey eyes and hair pins to style her hair. photographs from my childhood were also needed, along with some string and tape to attach them and hang them from the lighting bar, as seen in the photographs.

We then spent an hour and half filming throughout our dinner, free period and coursework lesson. The shots seen of Emily are seen in the green screen room with hanging photographs around her which i also managed to place on her for scenes later in the music video. Todays shoot consisted of many shots within the video but mainly the opening scene.

Today was very successful, and i have made a good start to my filming

xoxo

Make-up Artist, Hair stylist and Director

Leah Haywood

I am my own make-up artist, hairstylist and director. I love styling hair and make-up and so being all three really appealed to me and i love a challenge so i thought why not. 

Casting

Emily Hardcastle

 

Age: 18

Emily Hardcastle is playing my lead and only cast member in my music video. She is one of my fellow media peers and we decided to be in each others music videos to have the advantage of living so close together. As we both live a good half an hour journey away from college it is great in the terms of living close to be able to meet regularly to arrange rehearsals and arrange schedules and any other means of meeting. She is a great image to portray my genre of baroque pop and will work well as she understands the demands of the media course. 

Primary images of Locations

Green screen room at Wyke college. 

I took these images of my primary locations, so that you could see where my filming would take place.