Blog Hiatus. Research and planning will continue.

I'm sadly going on Holiday to South Africa for Christmas, and my biggest worry is work, but i have it covered, on both ends, even though it will be very rear for me to be online, so i will do my video taking over their collect outfits when I'm there and also learn and discover new ways to improve the video, and this end of the work, the people I'm going to working with will do the location shot and also,  getting everything else wrapped up, in the new year will valiantly return and we will do the list of things before the 14th of January.

• Test music video

1. Voice over, different languages, story line

• Shot testing, for example using a dolly.
• Comparing and being inspired by Johannes Greve Muskat

1. 'Day after' as inspiration for the music video. Black and White and genre, and  then go back and compare later with finished product.

• After effects and photoshop.

1. Alpha Matte words.
2. layering words on top of each other.
3. Glitch effect.

• Introductions to the characters, with make up and outfits, all of them different changes. then commentary on each of them.
• Looking at the genre of work, and how to portray it.
• rating it.
• Look at the Theories + Mulveys.
•  filming of effects i.e smoke, paint, water.
• Film project probably take up to 3 days the most. 

I'll be back

rushes and expirementing

So due to not having some of the things for filming, I decide to do some test shots and new ways to use the tripod, using the leaning away and forward movement  and then testing  match on action over simple movemnts and imroving the prevous hair flip movement to ad more dimension by adding a diffrent shot to them. i also expirment with the best type of lighting in the enviroment.

Commentary 

jeanine

This is Jeanine, I am looking at defacing the twins in the music film so they can be unknown faceless figures and looking at hairography and how hair obscureing someones face is very abtrast and masked beautifuly because of the flow.

The hair works effect

This is a test shot of hairography and the mood it gives to the video, I loved the placing I pictured as it was so bright it made the person look pure and still then the movment takes a turn to something warped and almost inner turmoiled yet relieving.

Audition response

After looking at all the auditions and speaking with the candidates, I realized that most of them were fantastic in their performances but the struggle was with time, most of the girls had other school work to do and weren't available when we are going to be filming. Shannon is very shy so even though she is available she doesn't want to participate in being filmed and would rather help with being the camera person, suggesting that I'd be in the music video not only because I would have time to but also because elf my skills in Drama.  So that's what we agreed on. 

Audition #5

AUDITION 05

Audition #4

AUDITION 04

Audition #3

AUDITION 03

Audition #2

AUDITION 02

Audition #1

AUDITION 01

The story

Characters.

Character moodboard

For the two anonymous characters, I wanted a very dark and sisterly feel to it, they would almost mirror each other but they would also be very different. I want the creepiness to coencide with beauty, and them beaing faceless and very covered, it takes away alot of the sensualnes, that would come from the characters, face and body being shown, so i will pariattly show their mouths and eyes, their hands and hair. their afeet and ankles but limited it to that.





Main character.




The main charcter i want to be softer, no harsh lines or dramatic things to her.
her clothes should like all the other characters shift. and change. She's

Band website

I want a simple band website as the front home page to replcate what the XX do also thinkinbg about adding their songs on the front page like this.

Digipak outline

The outline for my digipak is going to be a shot from the video, but since i haven't began shoting it i have done a draft so it can be visual.

 and as the CD is opened wider there is the series of photos of the characters

Storyboarding

Opening sequence

   The opening sequence, is based from the Syndromes short film, and the voice over will be based on Hurricane and Runaway. It will introduce the charcters to the audience and tell a little bit and forshadow the story




Escape



 Escape in my mind is based on the psyco the shgower scene but i want to romantisece it, the portaryed horror is the one in the shower and we follow our main charcter as she moved around the house, walking up the stairs to him.



Tied Together



 Tied together is the middle video so the climax in the storyline, i feel the characters interate alot more and also are shown beside loads of imagary. to deliever the messages of sensory, super close up on body parts, dialated eyes, and parted lips, shaky hands and sweat.

Mercuary











Mercuarry being the end of the film is slow, but very cool, i feel like the video should disperse and the myserties slightly sold or revaled, the twins should show they faces and the smoke in the woods reveal its origine. it should also come full cirlce with the characters faces. 



The twins

The refrence from the picture strongly shows the bases of the two characters, half of their faces shown and they mirror each other.   

Production scheduel.

I plan on shoot on January and leading to the beginning of Febuary. Have all the work filmed and orginized to start editing so I then have febuary to complete everything.

Shooting the project in its own e.g the songs and characters will take up to 5 days or less and then a full day in londoin which could fall into 2 days.But the next week will be followed with taping effects, like smoke and ink effects that I can add.