Note to the Moderator

Dear Moderator

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blogs, I hope you like them! My group blog is linked to my individual blog, you will find the group blog link on the right. There is also a link to the blogs for the other students in my group and a link back to our teacher's central blog, called the 'Latymer Media Music Video Blog', which has links to all the student and group blogs.

On my individual blog, you will find my individual research and initial ideas and planning, mainly from the early stages of the project before I got together with my group. You will also find my reflections on the development of the project as it progressed and the answers to the evaluation questions, which are in the form of video discussions we completed as a group. These have been posted to the group blog as well.

On my group blog, you will find evidence of my group’s planning and project developmental work right from the beginning of the project until the end. You will also find any research we did together that influenced and inspired us throughout the project.

My group chose to produce an album cover and a website homepage (a myspace page) as a well as a music video – these are all linked to both of my blogs.

I hope you find it easy to navigate my blogs. Everything is organised in date order from the start of the project in June 2009 until we finished in December 2009. I have used labels to identify all the research, planning and evaluation work I have completed on my individual blog. On the group blog, we have used the same system and any posts that I contributed to, or were individually responsible for, are labelled with my name.

Thanks :)

Bhavika Popat  

candidate number - 5665

Evaluation Clips

We have chosen some clips from our music video to go with the evaluation. At various points in my answers to the evaluation questions I have mentionned time codes when discussing specific clips from our video and these refer to the above video which contains those clips.

Conventions of Music Videos (Points time-coded and related to Evaluation Question 1)

According to Andrew Goodwin


• Demonstrate genre characteristics
- Concept based, abstract
- Quirkiness, weirdness – leaves going up (0:00) masked figure (0:03)
- Mystery, ambiguity – not revealing masked figure shots (0:05)
• Relationship between lyrics and visuals
- Mostly amplification
- Illustration –‘play my ace’ shot (0:11) and ‘eyes on fire’ shot (0:13)
• Relationship between music and visuals
- editing to the beat – waking up (0:19), fire (0:21), mask on/off face (0:24)
• Close-ups – CU shots (0:28)
• Voyeurism
- In the sense of watching – mirror shots (0:34), masked person in background at beginning (0:36)
- Challenged the voyeuristic treatment of the female body – not sexualised
• Intertextual references - Alice in Wonderland, ET,

According to Carol Vernallis:

NARRATIVE
• The narrative is not complete, is partial and disjointed, no closure, ambiguous
• Disjointed structure – different locations, not continuous in forest, jumps around for example the shots in the tunnel near the end(0:39)
• Driven by the enigma, the mystery
• Poses questions – What is happening? What does the masked person represent? (from the beginning when the masked person is in the background)
• Very thematic – self-discovery, obsession, multiple personalities

EDITING
• Editing to the beat – waking up(0:19), fire (0:21), mask on/off face (0:24)
• Broke rules of continuity editing – cutting within lyrics, 30 degree rule
• Is fore grounded – beginning trees out of focus ‘blinking' (0:42)
• Style – beginning is dreamy, then cuts to the beat
CAMERA MOVEMENT
• Extreme shots used and placed next to each other - CU to LS (0:47)
• CUs used frequently and master shots within sections
• Camera does not move in time with music or lyrics – we challenged this

DIEGESIS
• Revealed slowly – revealing shots of masked figure (0:05)
• Masked figure moves to the music when running – running shot (0:51)
• Gaps in audience’s understanding
• Repetitions of trees, certain close up shots, hands against tree and wall shots (0:54)

Sample Analysis Chart - Evaluation Question 1

In preparation for our evaluation we filled in these analysis grids that outline the conventions of music videos according to Andrew Goodwin adn Carol Vernallis. We also looked at the conventions of album covers and band/artist website homepages. Here is a sample of an analysis chart I filled in:

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Reflections

I led the discussion to this question and I think we covered most of the points quite well as a group as we spent the longest time on it. We refered to specific shots in our discussion so I have included my notes with the time codes even though we covered these points in our discussion. There were points that I wanted to bring up however I think we managed to cover them as a group. I do have some additional points to add about our album cover and Myspace.

Additional Points

Music Video

We compared our music video to Panic at the Disco's music video for 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies', which can also be classified as alternative/indie rock.



There are many similarities between the music video we created and the music video for this single as they are both conceptual and abstract but also contain performance and narrative.

• Our video features a masked person while this video features characters with painted white faces and this element makes the video quite surreal and different. This weirdness is a signifier of the alternative/indie rock.
• The idea of these strange charaters crashing a normal situation (a wedding) again makes the video quirky and surreal and so transports the viewers into another world as our video does through the concept delivered by the masked figure and the shot where the leaves blow upwards.
• The performance in both is often angry,aggressive and powerful. This is also often evident in the perofrmance aspect of videos in this genre.

Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over



We compared our music video to this one as well. The video is quirky and unique to the style of the artist. We particularly liked the angles of some shots and shots where the camera was placed on the ground. The artist is blindfolded for a while and then takes the blindfold off, which signifies her stepping out of her ignorance as she becomes aware. This can be compared with the beginning of ours where the girl wakes up and as she walks around she finds out more about herself through the masked figure.

Album Cover

I have listed six of the main conventions of album covers below and analysed whether we have

• Layout/form
   – Front: artist (poster cartoon effect), artist and album name
   – Back - track listing, institutional information
   – Front and back link through colour scheme, font
• Genre signifiers
   - artistic and distinctive
   - quirky and unique
• Visual representation of music
   - Fears, entrapment, extremities
• Branding of the artist
• Institutional identity
   - Staple Records
• Purpose/functions served
   - Portrays artist artistically
   - Identifiable and distinctive image
   - Promotes the artist

Florence And The Machine Album Cover

I would say this album follows all of the above conventions as it is a unique, artistic portrayal of the artist.

Myspace

When creating the artist homepage, which we did as a Myspace page, we looked at the conventions of band/artist homepages, mainly Myspace pages. This is split into four areas:

1. MEDIA LANGUAGE

• There is usually a relationship between the image and the text – The colour of both the image and text match as they are a dark green/blue. They show consistency in this way

2. REPRESENTATION - the iconography represents artist and genre

• Blue and green, grass and trees – a sense of the natural elements, authenticity in terms of the artist and her style of music, very atmospheric and in terms of representing the genre it is different and distinctive, which reflects alternative rock/indie

3. AUDIENCE - satisfied through various conventions

• Satisfied through – upcoming shows, interactivity, can become a friend, can message her, information about her, behind the scenes pictures, can leave comments, can watch the music video, blog entry, pop out player

4. INSTITUTION

• Record label (is independent, matches marketing activity), management, album ‘out now’,
• Marketing activity – specific to independent record labels and so matches the label

Kate Nash Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/katenashmusic

Her Myspace is very interactive as fans can become a friend, send a message and watch videos Kate Nash has picked to represent her.

The background - black and white checks - is simple but also quite retro and original. It reflects her music as original and her lyrics as straightforward and 'real'.

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Reflections

I did not lead this question. I felt that our discussion successfully answered the question and that we got the main points across as a group. However, I would like to develop some of our points further and add a few extra points, which we did not get the chance to discuss.

Additional Points

Music Video
Our main product, the music video for Evie's new single 'Eyes on Fire' ties all three products together and I would say most effectively sells Evie as an artist. The video is conceptual and abstract and makes her stand out as unique due to the quirky. This can be seen particularly in the shot where the leaves blow upwards, which is quite surreal and makes the audience feel as if they are in another world. The whole concept with the idea of a masked person representing an aspect of the main girl which she is trying to overcome is quite different and makes it stand out to the audience. In the same way, the disjointed structure of the narrative and in parts the editing
 
Album Cover
The front of the album cover is a very striking image of the artist and again represents her as quirky and different as she is seems to trapped in a box. It can be linked to Alice in Wonderland  and the posterised effect makes it seem surreal and out of this world. The back is a complete contrast to this as it is an Extreme Long Shot in the tunnel, which is a link to the music video. The front and back symbolise fears and this ties in with the theme of the video as she overcomes her fears. The extreme contrast represents the extremities of her character which perhaps can be compared to the dark, mysterious side visible in the video and the more humorous and fun side that is evident on the myspace.
 
Artist Homepage - Myspace
Evie's Myspace allows her fans to interact with Evie in various ways. Fans can become a friend, post a message, read her blog entries, look at behind the scenes pictures of her music video, find out when her upcoming shows are and even The Myspace shows a more friendly and humorous side of Evie that fans can easily relate to as can be seen with the video of the Maths song from School of Rock. In this way, similarities can be drawn with Kate Nash's myspace, which is far less glossy and far more personalised as can be seen in the picture below as soon as you enter the site. The background - black and white checks - is simple and so represents her as 'real' as can be seen in her lyrics and she has posted videos of her friends and very personal blog entries. However La Roux's myspace is far more glossy and represents her more as an artist than as a person with images of her clearly posing in the persona she has created to go with her music. The picture is in gold making her seem royal, majestic and therefore less personal. On our myspace however, Evie's picture is far more natural and she seems relaxed as she plays the guitar making her seem more accessible to fans.
 
Combination
All three products work well together as they are all linked in terms of representing Evie as a brand new alternative rock solo artist who is quirky and different. The album cover and musci video can also be viewed on the Myspace. Each product serves a different purpose. The music video represents Evie as the type of artist she is and the genre her songs are, the album cover promotes and sells her as an artist and also the genre of alternative rock while the myspace effectively shows her in a more personal light with the focus on her personality so fans can feel they know her.
 
Kate Nash's Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/katenashmusic
 

 












La Roux's Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/larouxuk

Florence and the Machine Album Cover

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learnt form your audience feedback?

Reflections

I didn't lead this question but I did chip in. I think that as a group we covered a lot of the main points by identifying our core/primary and secondary audience and discussing the feedback we got. I have some points to add to our answer.

Additional Points

Using the online forum was a really good way of getting feedback from people outside of Latymer, as Latymer students tend to like media that challenges them and forces them to think and so belong to a niche audience.

What have we learnt?

• Our core and secondary audience particularly liked the fire-spinning. This is likely to be becasue it is very striking visually and is an elemnet which makes our video stand out. At the first point where the fire almost explodes upwards this is in time with the beat (0:21) and so this may have been another reason why our audience liked this.

• They also liked the 'irregular' editing in our video and this is likely to be because we edited to the beat.
• One criticism from the online forum was that they did not like the messed up make-up. On reflection, we have overdone this element and so it may have looked too contrived.

• People generally wanted to watch the video again. This is probably because of the layers of meaning that mean that people are likely to notice a few aspects of the video only after watching it a few times.
• On the online forum a particular section of the video that was brought up a few times and this is from 1:39 to 1:43 in the music video where the main girl is sat on a stump in the forest while the masked figure circles her and then they switch places. People thought this part was quite humorous and I agree that it ruins the ambiance created by the rest of the video along with the song, which is more creepy and sinister.

Evaluation Question 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Reflections

I did not lead this question. I feel that we explored this question really well but would like to add a few brief points. We have also taken some pictures of the technology we used throughout the process.

Additional Points

Here is a picture of us at our edit suite with some of the technology we used! This includes the camera, editing software, HD tapes and paglights (on the desk).

Group blog

This was a quick and easy way to communicate with the group at both the research and planning stages of the project. It was also efficient as we only had to post on the one group blog and this could then be accessed by the entire group.

High Definition camera and tapes

These were relevant to our production and editing stages of the project. Disadvantages are that processes such as rendering take longer and also the tapes are a lot more expensive. But overall it is worth it as the quality is much higher and this helps our music video look more professional.

Software Motion on the Mac

Although we did not use this we were considering using an effect at 2:03 when the masked figure blows glitter from her hand. We were going to replace the glitter with fire or smoke but in the end after experimenting decided not to as the effect did not look right on the shot and it was tricky trying to make it work. So, although this software has the advantage of letting us be more creative with amazing effects it also be quite complicated to work with.

Online Forum

This was really useful in gaining feedback in the evaluation stage of our project. It is easily accessible online and we managed to widen our audience feedback which helped us evaluate our music video greatly.

Screening Feedback

Today we had our screening at lunch. We invited people through facebook and had quite a good turnout of about ten people. We handed out questionnaires and also had a more focussed discussion after the screening with those who fitted the profile of our target audience the most and would want to buy the single or watch the video again.

Generally the feedback was very positive and watching the audience's reaction, I think we got the desired reaction form them as some were quite frightened by the video and found the video and the performer very creepy.

The audience seemed ot get the main concept of searching for something and a sense of confusion and being lost.

A big favourite was the fire spinning, particularly the first shot of this where the fire appears to blow upwards in time to the music where the beat kicks in at 1:53.

There is more about our feedback on the group blog as well as a post with the questions we asked people on the questionnaire.

One question was asking what other videos this reminded the audience of and somebody mentionned Panic At The Disco - 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies', which is a video we took inspiration from quite early on in the project.

WE ARE FINISHED :)

We had our screening in fron of our media class yesterday.

This was the main feedback:

They liked a lot of the shots, particularly in the forest with the light streaming through the trees.
The performance by Mia was really, really good.
They liked the way we made the audience feel confused and disorientated.
It was good how we didn't reveal certain things straight away.
They would want to watch it again (repeated viewings!)
There was one blurry shot of Mia near the beginning they thought was too blurry.
The ECU shot of Mia opening her eyes was slightly out of time for the line 'Eyes on Fire'.

We have now made the suggested change and out the ECU shot in time with the music. We did not chnage the blurry shot of the girl as we all felt that it was an effective shot and just added to the feeling of discomfort and uneasiness of the audience.

Finished!

We have now (unofficially) finished our project!


That includes our music video, album cover and myspace homepage for our artist.


We will have a screening with our class next Tuesday and then make any changes we need to...and then we are DONE!!!

Editing, Album Cover and Myspace Page

This week we have been working on editing the music video as well as the album cover and myspace page as the deadline draws closer (Friday).

We have decided now that the name of the artist will be Evie and the album cover is called 'Girl Afraid'. We are going to play on the idea of fears with the visuals on the cover of the album as this will tie in with the title and a theme of the music video. We still need to decide on an effective shot for the front cover of the album. We already know that the back will consist of a shot from the tunnel in which a silhouette of the girl can be seen in the distance.

In terms of editing, our video is coming together. We have satrted to put the ending together with the footage that was shot at the reshoot at the weekend. One option was to have the girl walk away with the the mask attached to her foot by string. However we did not like the look of this and after getting some similar negative feedback decided to have quick cuts of the girl getting up from the floor after the 'spark' bit putting the mask on. Originally the spark bit would have been the ending but we though it was not dramatic enough.

Apart from this there aren't many major issues or gaps. We did have a small gap at the beginnning where we planned to put together quick snap shots of the rest of the video. We got some feedback from Ms Blackborow who didn't like this but suggested we introduce the girl to the audience with some shots of her in the tunnel. We working on this at the moment too.

Trent Park Reshoot

Unfortunately I was too ill to go to the reshoot at Trent Park. The main thing left to shoot was the ending.

It's been raining quite a lot today but I'm hoping this didn't effect the shoot and that it went well.

I will try to come into school tomorrow if I'm feeling better as we haven't got long till the deadline.

Inspiring Album Covers

We took inspiration from the key iconography of this shot. There is a strong theme of nature with the flowers and birds in the background as well as the colour scheme of green and blue, which connote authenticity and freshness. The lungs on the outside of the artists body are quite surreal and suggest to the audience that the artist is unique and quirky. The way her body is posed with her eyes looking down demonstrate her quirkiness and also makes her stand out from other artists.

The key image on this album cover is quite surreal as the house in the background is reminiscent of a cottage in a fairytale. The bright red and yellow that are prominent in the image reinforce this. The horse imagery is also suggestive of mythical elements and the prominent green in the image connates more natural elements. The daisies also connate a sense of nature and also summertime and therefore a sense of dreaminess. Both these qualities suggest that as an artist Kate Nash is unique and different with an element of authenticity.

The image on this album cover has a cartoon/animated effect on it. It is very simple as is the colour scheme and the animated artist is dressed simply and is not groomed which suggests that she is again authentic and that her music is in a sense 'real' and sincere.

Editing, Album Cover and Myspace Page

We are getting even closer to our deadline with only about a week to go. I have summarised our progress so far in terms of all three products.


Editing

It is going well so far, but we only have a week left and still don't have all our footage! We are going to reshoot this weekend and I think we have enough time to edit the new footage. The only thing left is the ending. So in the meantime we have been working on the rest of the song. We were trying to listen to the lyrics and so when the song says 'I'm taking it slow' we have deliberately edited at a slower pace. We have also been adding more effects such as cross dissolves at this point in the song and at the beginning to make it more dreamy.

We need to get feedback from a teacher next week to find out if anything needs changing.

Album Cover


At the moment we are still planning and discussing our ideas for the fornt of the album. We already have the shot for the back, which is a ELS of Mia in the tunnel where only her silhouette can be seen.


For the front cover, we have been looking at album covers from the same genre as our song and artist, which is alternative/indie rock. We want to convey the genre and therefore have been analysing their signiifers. The main convention is that the image and style is unique and often abstract and weird.


Some of our ideas have been based around mythical imagery or images associated with nature such as trees. One idea was to use the silhouette of tree branches. We do not want to use an actual photo of a tree but only a image that is almost cartoon like. However, with a photo of Mia alongside this the feedback we have got is that it would be weird.

Myspace Page

We have not decided on the name of our artist and so have not created a Myspace yet. However, in preparation for the creation of it, we have looked at the myspace pages of other artists such as Kate Nash who we have taken much inspiration from. Her page is very personal and she has put a lot of herself and her personality into it. We like this idea and have decided to try and do something similar for our artist's myspace.

Panic At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies

I have decided to analyse this music video as we used it for inspiration earlier on in the project. The video is concept based and quite abstract. It's a great music video to analyse. There is a sense of a narrative and also some very convincing performance.


The video starts off with a normal situation - a wedding. The main performers is dressed in a red suit and holds a black stick and may represent some sort of a circus instructor. Pretty soon into the video we begin to see the quirky and weirder side to the video. Quite early on some performers who resemble circus performers but who are all quite strange and some creepy characters. They all seem to dance quite theatrically and sometimes aggressively. The main performer begins to direct his anger towards the groom. Finally he drags him outside where he witnesses the bride kissing another man. At this point there is a transition and the groom is now in the outift the main performer was originally wearing. This may represent a shift in his knowledge and awareness. Now that his eyes have been opened, he is no longer ignorant or in the dark. The whole narrative and concept matches the lyrics as can be seen with the line 'It's much better to face these kinds of things...' and whole idea of revealing the truth to the groom.


At 0:28 we are introduced to the quirkiness of the video with the wedding guests with white painted faces.


0:31 This is a really creepy shot where the quests simultaneously look at the camera.


0:36 Editing to the music (Andrew Goodwin) is visible here. As the beat kicks in the main performer smashes the door open and suddenly many strange character enter the room. So it signiifes the entrance of these weird, almost surreal characters.


0:41 Weird aspect of the video. These strange characters are juxtaposed with a normal, worldly situation.

1:00 Here the visuals match the music. As the music gets quieter the mad characters also calm down and sit down at this point.


1:15 We took major inspiration from this shot as the make-up is successfully extremely creepy. We decided to use the big red grin on our masked person. The white mask creates a similar effect to that of the white painted face.


1:28 This is another shot we took much inspiration from as we used a similar shot with the masked person blowing glitter out of her hand. In our video, this can be seen to symbolise the masked person's attempt to win over the main girl or equally it could be seen to represent the power of the masked person, or the part of the girl's self that it represents, and effectively the hold it has over the girl.


1:30 This shot is quite disturbing. I particularly like how make-up has been used to make the audience feel uneasy.


1.38 Over exposure this shot goes really bright. We tried experimenting with lighting and over exposure in our video.


1.43 - At this point the shot goues blurry and slightly out of focus. We have tried experimenting with focus and I think the blurry effect is effective in making the audience lost and confused.


1.45 - LA shot kicks towards the camera shows that he holds the power. Again, aimilarities can be drawn between this aspect in this video and ours, in which the main girl struggles to maintain the power against the masked person. In the tunnel, there are particular shots where the main girl sings into the camera and seems to be fighting hard to regain her power as can be seen in her facial expression.


The section after this is all edited to the beat and is again the visuals match the music. In this part of the sonag, people are dancing and being aggressive as can be seen on their facial expressions. There are random flashes at for instance 1:53 and this is something we could try to as there is a running theme of light in our video.


Hand held camera creates a sense of disorientation. This is evident at 1.55. We have tried to create something similar in some shots in the forest.

3:02 Fire is another link between our video and this video as we have used fire spinning in ours. We also have a shot where the fire almost blows upwards and this matches the music and beat in ours.

Editing Progression

The editing is coming along really well as we are steadily filling the gaps in the timeline. The footage from our reshoot in the tunnel, which we have captured and begun working on, is looking really good.


Now that we had the right footage, I have been working on the start of the sequence. Parts of it look good but the angles of the shots of Mia lying on the ground in the tunnel and forest do not match. As the shots are next to each other this is a problem. We are currently deciding whether we should have another reshoot or solve the problem in editing. We are holding a reshoot at Trent Park, but we all like the angle of the shot of Mia waking up in the forest and so ideally would reshoot the shot in the tunnel.


I have been trying to edit to the music and beat more this week. With the idea of trying to match the visuals with the music, we have also put other key shots onto the timeline. For instance we have a brilliant shot of the fire spinning when the beat kicks in.

What we have done so far looks quite different to how I imagined it would, but it still looks really good – possibly better!

Tunnel Reshoot

We had our reshoot at the tunnel yesterday and it went really well! We met fairly early at 10.00 and the weather was good so it was quite light outside. We got all our shots and finished quite early. We didn't come across any problems and things went quite smoothly.

I watched some footage back today and its looking good!

Leona Lewis - Run

I have decided to analyse this music video for the single 'Run' by Leona Lewis. We are currently editing and having a reshoot soon so I thought we could gain some inspiration from it. The setting is the same as ours as it is in a forest. I also like the extremely effective use of and experimentation with lighting as well as the editing throughout the song. However, compared to our song, the genre is different and so is the theme.

At 1:09 I particularly like the gradual fade, which ties in with the music that changes at this point. There is also a fade at 0:48 and up until this point the video features one long take. This is extremely effective in building up tension and setting the atmosphere. The fade also matches the song which is quite slow and sad.

At 1:11 the extreme long shot is then contrasted with a CU of the artist at 1:16 which is again very effective.

At 1:33 there is a fade to lack which again matches the music which gets quieter a this point. We have quite a few pauses in our video but I think we will use those for some interesting shots and editing as the rest of the song is slow and so will will use slower shots or fades at other points.

I really like the shot at 1:39 where the camera moves around a tree, which remains out of focus as the artist stays in focus. We have already experimented with the camera by chnaging focus on our last shoot. I also tried this shot and will bear it in mind for the shoot.

1:44 - There is a red tint to the shot and I think we tried something similar to this effect by using sweet wrappers (purple, green and pink as can be seen on the group blog) as we have tried to experiment with lighting and exposure etc. I really liked what we did because it really tied in with the dreamy effect we were going for as it looked quite surreal.

At 2:05 there is a really cool flicker effect with the light that we could perhaps try out as it would add to the confusion and sense of being lost that we are trying to convey in our video.

There is an amazing shot of sunlight streaming through the trees at 2.56 which is visually extremely effective. I think we need lots of footage of something similar. We could also have some shots where the camera is spinning or moving really fast to reflect the main girl's madness and sense of confusion.

3:03 - There is a few flashes of light that is tinted slightly red that looks really cool. We could try out this effect as we are trying to experiment with light and the colour red could reflect the extreme emotions, such as passion and obsession, that we are trying to convey.

At 3:12 there is a handheld shot that I particularly like.

At 3:22 to 3:23 there is an interesting shot which is an ECU of the artists eyes. The shot then goes really bright. We were already thinking of using an ECU of eyes and I think we could use exposure to get a really bright shot.

4:07 - Another really shot of light streaming through trees and surrounding the artist.

The shots in this video are generally quite long, which will be very different to ours as most of our shots seem to be quicker, even though some will be longer.

Editing: Progression

Now that we have footage from all our locations (although we are not going to use all of it) we have started editing. We captured the footage on Monday and Tuesday and then began putting together sequences.

We began working on was the sequence of the main girl waking up. We wanted swap between shots in the tunnel and forest using graphic matching but we found that the footage of this in the tunnel did not work or match with the one in the forest, which we much preferred. Therefore we will have to have a reshoot in the tunnel.

I began putting shots of the main girl walking in the forest and then also shots of the masked figure without properly revealing her.

So the editing is going well! Once we have the correct footage it will come together much better.

Shoot 2 and 3: Grovelands Park and Trent Park

Thurday 29th October - Grovelands Park

Friday 30th October - Trent Park

Costume

MAIN GIRL (Mia)
Black/silver dress
Make-up - natural, more subtle (eyeliner, eyeshadow etc)
Converse

MASKED PERSON 1 and 2 (Selina and Mary)
Faded blue jeans
Black suit jacket
White mask
Make-up - Red lipstick (for Selina)

Props
 Black stick
Sparklers

Problems/Lessons Learnt

We arranged to meet up at 1:30 for this shoot and it took a fair amount of time for the actors to get ready so by the time we actually started filming it was fairly late and therefore getting dark quickly. We coudn't shoot much as it was getting dark and we didn't have the paglights either.

At this shoot, we did get some incredible footage of Matt fire-spinning, which looked really cool on camera, so I'm looking forward to seeing it at school on the computer.
 We learnt our lesson about arranging to meet to late and for the next shoot the next day we arranged to meet earlier at 12. We also managed to get the paglights in case we needed them, which we did.

Originally we were going to have one main masked person (Selina) and two background masked people (Mary and Matt). However, Matt couldn't make it to the shoot on Friday but we decided that we could shoot our footage without him. We shot some footage with Mary in it as a background masked person but may not use it in the real video as it might look random with just one and Selina may no longer look like the main masked person.
 I think both shoots went well and we definately have some footage we can use from both shoots.
 We will have to reshoot at the tunnel as the footage we got from there needed better lighting. So next time we will film in the day and make sure we have the paglights.