AN - Our Animatic

Today, I finished working on the animated story board. I created it by drawing each sequence on twelve pieces of paper and added annotations. After that, I scanned the pictures onto a computer and put them into Windows Movie Maker along with the songs. Here is the animatic itself:

Change in Cast!

We have had found out today that Sammy Bullock (who was supposed to be playing the girlfriend) can no longer perform in our music video due to personal reasons according to Asa although we have found a replacement Anna Simpson (right), we chose her because she has long blonde hair and a slim figure this signifies feminity which is a convention we want to convey in our music video. We also thought she would 'go' in the band and not look out of place with the other members altthough we went for the post spice girl convention in which the cast have different identities and looks unlike pre spice girls bands.

Our lesson for the class about Narrative.

Today, we did our presentation on Narrative and digipaks in music videos. During the presentation, we talked about the different narrative theories and how digipaks are presented.

Narrative in music videos asa sophie katie

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AN - Final actor named

Today I managed to get one more actor for our music video, Sammy Bullock (shown right). In the video, she will play the waitress (eg. left) in the restaurant who James (the boyfriend) will cheat on Francesca (the girlfriend) with. 

During the restaurant sequence, she will be wearing a waitress' uniform in order to portray the waitress stereotype. One part of the uniform will be a short shirt, this will obtain sex appeal attracting a male audience. However, it won't be over-the-top and feel more realistic to fit the tone of the video.

Podcast 3

In today's podcast, me and Sophie (with the absence of Katie) talk about the second set of sample footage we filmed which involved the girlfriend's aftermath of the break up. As well as that, we also talk about how the sample footage will help us in the making with our final product, along with the symbolic meaning of some parts of the video.

Blazing Grace ident

For our company ident for Blazing Grace productions we've come up with the final idea. We're going to have a 'bad ass' barbie doll as Barbies are often a connotation of purity and the ideal stereotype of beauty for young girls we have decided to create a counter type of this, our barbie will have ripped clothing with a short leather skirt (quite gothic clothing) with a nose ring and messed up hair and smoking a cigarette, example shown left. This is a countertype of the usual Barbie as normally she is the perfect pristine woman that always looks glamourous. The ident will go with the name Blazing Grace productions because Barbie is usually a graceful sucessful woman but in this case she has turned into the opposite, un-glamourous and a mess and a not longer suitable role model for young girls aged 4-10. 
As you can see this is an old Barbie doll and the kind of image we hope to create although you cant actually see the clothing she's wearing in the image its just a sample of what we hope to achieve with are ident but better. The clothing we will dress her in will make her look essentially like a washed up stripper and just generally a mess, with all her clothing ripped up and maybe some pills lying around her when she's sat on the floor.This idea origionally came from the 'We Found Love' video by Rihanna when she is in the bath by herself we hope to use this as inspiration and put our barbie maybe in the bath with runned mascara this video is about drug use and relationships failing because of it to signify bad connotations of drug use to our audience of teens for our Destiny's Child video - Emotion.

More Footage 2

As we were unable to film some more sample footage on wednesday dude to bad weather conditions we delayed filming to today. We have no completed sample footage 2 and it should be edited and uploaded in the next few days. Franchesca, our female actor playing the girlfriend in out music video was unable to attend filming we decided to replace her with me for this one session. 

As in our previous sample footage involving James, the boyfriend, we used a variety of shot types and took inspiration from the year aboves work last year when after a breakup the female character was spinning around in the street to signify disillusion. We also couldnt get the girl band members to attend as we shot the footage in lesson time so we had to make do with three boys (Jack Margerison as Michelle Williams, Harry Knight as Kelly Rowland and Ollie Moulton as Beyonce Knowles) wich was well interesting but we just shot it to see what they would look like against the white background we intend to use in our music video. Footage is currently being editing by us and will be uploaded shortly.