Practice

Filming

Faye and Claudia

We will be filming in South Weald for the whole of our practice filming.

We have previously been to the location and it’s really versatile for what you want to film. It’s so big and would work for any sort of genre.

The weather is really appropriate for the look we want to go for. Quite dull and run down – cloudy, wet and muddy. Obviously this is only practice filming and for the ‘real thing’ we would have more locations. If South Weald looks good when uploaded and edited and doesn’t give us any problems (such as, a lot of public) we would defiantly use the location in our

We haven't planned on using any props or to take any with us. The only thing would be a tree and its branch for Claudia to perch in and hold on to when performing.Obviously brick walls and logs are something we might incorporate but there are no props we are thinking of actually bringing.

Costume, Hair and Make-Up

For this set of filming, we plan to have Claudia as a ‘crazy’ psycho woman. Maybe that’s slightly extreme, but defiantly along those lines, with mascara running down her face but still with big eyelashes, to give the

effect that she is still an artist and somewhat ‘glamorous’. Her hair will be natural and messy, but where it is a nice blonde and with the eyelashes it will look like the artist is just going through a rough time. It links in with the theme and lyrics of the song. We are thinking of a puffy, fairy like dress to juxtapose the genre and feel of the video. It will open up more views of the video when watching it. This is just some ideas we have in mind and nothing is settles. Obviously we want to incorporate a lot more outfits and make-up.

Facial Expressions and Body Language Because the song is up beat but the lyrics are depressing, we feel like meeting half way would work. Just having blank facial expressions, but still showing emotion when the artist is singing with obvious emphasis. Claudia will have to show this within both her facial expressions and body language with things like closing her eyes, using her hands, etc…

Facial expressions isn’t something we have strongly looked into, therefore this will need to be researched and also experimented with on the day of filming.

When doing the lip syncing task, we both found it easier to sing the lyrics as well as mime them to give a more realistic effect.

Some of the lyrics represent a happy place and Claudia will need to show this through her facial expressions by grinning or looking down and smiling. But obviously not overly happy and it will need to flow so this is something we can practice.

Lighting and Colour

Because of our setting our lighting was always natural within the shots, which we think matched our video because it allowed us to manipulate the shadows formed when in the sun and having natural light shining on our artists face. We filmed in the early morning so the sun wasn't at its brightest but still shone through the trees. This worked in our favour because our song is a bright happy one it matched our Mise en scene.

The natural colours of the forest we feel matched our Mise en scene as the colours we had chose to use throughout our video are colours such as; grey, black, brown, dark purple, greens we chose these as bright colours would not have suited our video and artist. So the forest was a perfect setting to film.