Filming the Music Video!

Monday 24th October 2009 & Thursday 29th October 2009

The day has finally come to film our music video!
We filmed our music video over the course of two days, Monday 24th October 2009 and Thursday 29th October 2009.

I have included some photographs of behind scene action that took place during filming and some photographs that I believe we actually included in our music video.














A few props used to transform our actress from scene to scene.

















Applying make up for the first scene we are going to film shortly.























Actress ready and looking rather dashing.
Our actress under the pink veil familiarising herself with the lyrics once more.























Our cute little sisters acting as though they are being influenced by the media to grow up before their time.





























This was our final scene to shoot!

THATS A WRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shopping for make up and props.

Saturday 24th October 2009

Today me and partner went shopping for our make up, costumes and props. We had already previously had some props from before so there were just a few little bits and bobs that we needed like various wigs and lashes for instance.

Storyboard time!

Friday 23rd October 2009

As last lesson we had discussed our visuals down to a tee it was now time to compose our story board as we were soon filming in the next week.

Finalised ideas of the make up and costumes & Decided on a name 'LaBelle'

Wednesday 21st October 2009

In today's lesson we both brought our ideas together about the costumes and make up for our artist. We then weighed out the pros and cons of each outfit while bearing in mind that it had to fit in with our genre of music and target audience. We also were very conscious about creating the 'Star Persona' of our artist and so researched what other females from this genre were wearing in their music videos.
We soon came to a final decision of what our artists style would be like in the music video and set ourselves the task of being on the look out of anything that resembles this style so we could go out and buy the items, for instance wigs from hair shops and big high heels, pearls, lace etc...

As we were heavily influenced by both Pink and Natasha bedingfield, we knew we wanted our artist to have a number of costume and/or hair changes as this would allow to appeal to a greater variety of women as then they would be able to visually see the diversity we are attempting to create in order to show the unity among women and how all women endure similar happenings for instance the continual influence from the media.

We also came to the conclusion of what to actually name our artist. We waned something unusual yet subtle and feminine. We somehow stumbled across rose and beauty and then thought how about LaBelle which if French for beauty, its soft and feminine, just what we wanted for our artist who has lyrics which express how an individual should love their inner self and not result to influences that simply are an act.

Brain storming ideas for music video

Friday 16th October 2009

Last lesson my partner and I had analysed the lyrics to our song 'So Simple' so decided today to make a brainstorm of any ideas in an attempt to compose our story board for next lesson. We both discussed each word of every line and noted down potential ideas for that partcular section.

Analysed lyrics to selected song 'So Simple' and created a plan of where each scene would go

Friday 9th October 2009

Today me and my partner thought it would be highly benifcial to analyse the lyrics of our chosen song as this would allow us to gain a greater understanding of the content and meaning of the song in a deeper way. While doing so we started to brainstorm and plan what visuals would match each word on every line, we thought this was beneficial as then we would clearly know exactly what goes where.

Given important dates for filming and editing.

Friday 2nd October 2009

Today we were given important dates for our diary concerning the filming and editing sessions.

We are scheduled to borrow equipment to film on Friday 23rd October 2009, the end of the half term in order to film during the half term week which lasts Monday 26th to Friday 30th October 2009.

Monday 2nd November 2009 we are scheduled to return the equipment.

November 13th, 20th, 25th and 4th December 2009 we are scheduled to edit our footage.

Contacting Artist: Stacie Orrico / Agent

Thursday 1st October 2009

Today we contacted Stacie Orrico's agent via email in hopes to get a reply with permission to use the song.