Reflections

I think our project went well. Angelie & I worked well as a pair and our final MySpace, album cover & music video are well made. During the editing process we split our time across all three products, however we began the process by having me working on the performance bed whilst Angelie concentrated on the narrative which saved us time and used our skills.
The reception of our video was generally good, which was reflected in the feedback from our screening.
Overall this was a successful project which I have very much enjoyed.
So this is goodbye,
Emma
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Finished Music Video

Here's our finished music video:

Finished Album Cover and MySpace

MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/avaalexisofficial

Applying Theory To My Video

Andrew Goodwin's Theory (Dancing in the Distraction Factory, 1992)

- Music videos contain genre signifies e.g. dance routines for a boy band e.g. Take That's 'Shine' Video
In my video:
--Performance based

- Record labels demand 'visual hooks' (close ups of the star) which may be developed into the star's 'visual style' e.g. the 'Busted jump' or 'money shots' of the star's/band's face(s)
In my video:
-- "I need a hero" action of turning to look to the camera

- Frequent inter textual references (to film, TV, other music videos, celebrities etc.) e.g. Eminem's 'Just Loose It' Video
In my video:
-- Wonder Woman

- Visuals either illustrate, amplify or contradict the song's lyrics
In my video:
-- Two actions illustrate whilst most contradicts

- References to voyeurism particularly of the female body (although increasingly the male body too) e.g. Jennifer Lopez's 'Jenny From The Block' video
In my video:
-- Not as such in my video

Last day of shooting

Last Friday (26th I think?) we had our last shoot and despite having to hear the song TWELVE times I think it went okay. We've captured the footage today (well Angelie did, I had to do a Politics essay) but it looks much better than our previous two performance shoots. We also followed Jake's advice and filmed some self-help scenes to make it more obvious what we were trying to portray.

Tonight I stayed for p7 and started t o create our performance bed, so hopefully that'll be done soon!

Yesterday's Shoot

Last night after school we went with Melissa to Enfield Chase station to finish shooting her footage. It was a bit difficult because of the different lighting conditions but we got it all done and it looks good on the edit suit now =]

More shooting reflections

On Friday we did a bit of shooting, by the time everyone had arrived and changed we really only had an hour and we were still pretty unsure about the location (in the end we opted for a train station and just hoped no one would notice and kick us out). I think we should have been more organised than that, but we did get a lot of what we wanted to get done finished, we only have one or two shots we'd like to shoot again which I think Melissa & Angelie are going to do on Tuesday (I'm in Bristol for the day so can't help, but will make up for it sometime!).

Today (Sunday) we had our big shoot where we did almost every shot except 2 which we can do at any time really. We were far more organised today in terms of knowing what we wanted, and Jazmin & Melissa were making good suggestions that we tried out (for example using my brother to knock the bag). However I feel that I was probably a bit lazy in terms of shooting today because I'm so burnt out from spending every spare moment doing Media (however much I love it) as well as juggling everything else and making sure my house is ready to use for shoots. I will rectify this in future, I believe the next shoot I will be on is Wednesday afternoon.

Also, after discussions with Jazmin & Melly we've decided to avoid shooting next weekend if we can, we'd all rather do it during the week because it's easier and we seem to mess around less then =]