We had an idea that we should use domestic violence in our film, as it would be more impactful on the audience. However a problem soon cropped up that the song No Light by Florence and the machine wouldn’t work, because the song is about her cheating on her partner. If the protagonist was being abused and was cheating this would tie the two together but would also overcomplicate the film which is the problem we had in the last film. Also after studying music videos we have found that they usually have very simple plotlines. So I came up with the idea that instead her betrayal is that she tells someone about the domestic abuse (i.e. a friend) and with this conversation it will explain everything clearly if it wasn’t clear before. I am more leaning towards this idea because it isn’t the typical betrayal ideas that are betrayal within a relationship, we want to push the boundaries and do something different with our theme. After deciding this something occurred to me, to show the abuse it may be easier for me to take make-up instead of costume, I am of yet not sure if I can combine the two, because if I can that would be easier so for now I may be changing what im being assessed on because I will get more marks and we have changed our idea.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Smudged Mascara
I am not fully haoppy with this result,it isont dark enough and it dosent look very msuch like tears, and it needs more definition above the eyes as well.
Heart
I had an idea that the protagonist draws a heart on her chest in the black paint, and I took some pictures of possible ideas shown above:
I also thought this could link in with one of our influences being Christine Perri- Jar Of Hearts music video, however after this we decided to scrap this, as we found it too complex and was not really needed in the video and would look a bit cheesy.
I also thought this could link in with one of our influences being Christine Perri- Jar Of Hearts music video, however after this we decided to scrap this, as we found it too complex and was not really needed in the video and would look a bit cheesy.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Interactive ?
We have decided after other people started the topic officially in Expressive Arts that the examiner was looking for more interactive performances. We had a think about this, and we immediately decided that neither of us wanted to talk so we decided to think about other options. We eventually came up with an idea of a set within a set. So in our film we hope to have a white room set within our film and we will re-create that in the drama studio when the film is shown, so the audience will be inside the actual set. We then decided to develop this, and we came up with the possible idea, that the protagonist in the film does not die, but is fatally injured, and then she stands up (in the actual drama studio) and walks between the audience in a mock catwalk seating. She will be stumbling and you will be able to see the wound, then when she gets to the front of the stage she will collapse. (Initial sketch will be uploaded later) We think we will stick with this idea however we may develop this farther, for example we had the idea that once the protagonist has fallen to the floor dead then all the lights in the room will go out, because the project is called “No Light”. We also had the idea that the protagonist when she is in the performance room will be wearing ghostly make up, and maybe she doesn’t die on stage, and she dies in the video, and that she is a ghost when she is in the performance room and she doesn’t fall to the floor, she just stands their and the lights go out. This lead on to us to think about using glow in the dark make up when she is the ghost, as this would look very impressive and would amplify the fact that she is a ghost. However we also want the room to be pitch black because it’s “No Light” so we will have to decide which we prefer more. We also have to take into account that it will be difficult and possible expensive to buy the glow in the dark paint, so this is a discussion for later.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Influences General and Editing
After watching the Britney Spears video Circus, I found that i really loved the shot at 2:11 where Britney stands their and the sparks fall down in slow motion, and when it comes to editing ‘No Light, No Light’ I hope to use this technique when the protagonist has paint being thrown at her. http://youtu.be/lVhJ_A8XUgc Keeping on the subject of Britney music videos, in the music video for ‘Break The ice’ although it is animated it shows of some good editing techniques, like the slow motion fall, was what I wanted to do when the protagonist falls into the white room, but from a different closer angle: 1:18 http://youtu.be/eQFIKP9rGhQ . Also at 1:07 where you can see her leg moving, and still see the frames before is how I hope to get the part where she throws Paint ‘blood’ across the floor and you can see the trail of blood/paint. However this will be done not in editing like it was in the video, but in real life because there will be a real life trail of blood/paint, On the other hand I will slow down the clip to show this more effectively. The point from earlier of the slow motion falling is also demonstrated in this video at 2:33 when Britney slow motion falls backwards, that’s how I want the falling into shot to look like, however she will be falling forewords not backwards, but This is the shot I invisdgioned for this. I also like the fact that they have blurred the clips when there is a beat in the song, which I really like and I may use this at the fast parts of ‘No Light, No Light’ and I think this will look effective as well as the white room is supposed to be real and be fuzzy blurry and out of focus. This video ahs mainly taught me that you have to change the shot on almost every beat of the song, and this makes it a snappier powerful video, especially at the fast paced parts. This is something I will bear in mind, and will use to adhere to the conventions of a music video. I also think this will work in the fast places of the song however this does mean that im going to have several shots for each section of the song. This may be a problem in the scene where paintballs get thrown at the protagonist, as we hope to have two cameras’ set up, but it’s going to be hard to stop and reposition the cameras to get a different shot, so what I will have to is something i call scene cutting. Its where I will get one short scene, and another, and split them each into let’s say 5 small parts. Then I will put one of the five clips of Scene A ad then B and so on, like in my own video i made here: http://youtu.be/SE9hn8pM7Oc (0:21-0:35). Then that way I can make it go faster or slower as the music tempo is faster or slower, also this will make the scene look less real, and fills up time and looks impressive without people realising. I will not use this for the whole clip, I would estimate around 10-15 seconds like the slip above. The idea of it fitting the tempo of the music is demonstrated more so here at 0:53-1:02 which are in time with the music and uses scene splitting at the beginning. However it will look better in ‘No Light, No Light’ because this video was made 11 months ago. For this video I intend to use all of the editing techniques I know, and use Serif Windows Movie Maker and Windows live, to get the broadest range of editing software’s, and editing effects. I also intend to focus heavily upon syncing the beats in the song to the film and using editing techniques, but only ones that suit the video. I also am taking sinpriation from the Britney Spears music video Criminal, where at 4:26 they fire the bullets, and its slowed down to show the bullet hitting the walls and showering the couple in debirs. So i though we could copy this but instead using our black paint and have the same positioning of the charecter in the centere of the room. http://www.akilli.tv/video/573461/britney-spears-criminal.aspx
Problems
We had a rethink of the “No Light, No Light” idea and we have decided that the concept is too complicated; we have decided that the idea of the protagonist cheating is very complex when combined with the wedding idea. So we need to have a rethink, possible ideas are that we scrap the wedding idea (which would be good as it would save us a lot of hassle with making the wedding scene and the hassle with set dressing and costume and venues). However the alternative is to cut the flashbacks with the person she has cheated with. This was Anna’s thought that we don’t want to become as complicated as it did with Meet Me in the Dark and the plotline became confused. I think the best way to go about this is to cut the idea of a wedding, but that the Protagonist and her partner are engaged, so the idea of a white wedding dress would still work, and in one of the flashbacks it could be the proposal scene. Anna also felt that she didn’t like the idea of showing the person that the protagonist was cheating on with. She mainly felt like this because of her aversion to acting and I think that without the flashbacks the film could work, however unless there was dialogue used (which I have an aversion too) the film wouldn’t work. So this is a juggle and something we need to sit down and talk about on Friday’s expressive arts lesson.
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