Phootoshoot for Website

Trying to design the website we had to do a photshoot . This was done with the artist, Fatima against a white backdrop to contrast with the concept of the music video which is very dark., and also to show more edginess and attitude within the expression of the images. Mainly because the images from the shoot day were giving her too nice of an image. Now we are mixing the now with the old to create more attitude while still being cohessive within the conventions of our music video package.

Evaluation of Our Digipack

 

 As we haven't yet filmed the music video our digipack is not finalized as we need the pictures of our artist to go on the front cover and the inside left area of the CD. What we came up with recently  differs to our initial ideas of entitling the album 'Let Go', therefore we created something more sophisticated and original in the same time, as the Indian title now relates to the actual music video and looks more interesting. We decided to keep it quite minimalistic so that it brings up it to a professional standard but it also becomes more effective and the audience can remember it much easier; Besides this makes it have a mysterious flair. We have also created suitable name tracks that would link in smoothly with her style, personality and genre. I believe our design has been successful as it fulfills the criteria and features that we hoped for and has the perfect look that would suite our artist. 

Initial Idea where we have further explored and turned into 'BlackOut'

Digipack Draft

The Template

Getting the right size for the digipack is important. After viewing a couple of digipacks and finding out the typical dimensions, this was from 12.5 CM height and 14 CM length. It is really important finding out the template early on in the stage so then we wouldn’t have to resize the pictures and possibly ruining them the process. I Googled some templates to help me out with the process as well as looking at some online and a few that were at my disposal. 

Here is the template that I decided to use: 

Rough Cut

We've been checking-in in the editing suite frequently during the post production stage and we have now managed to complete the rough cut of our music video. We are very pleased with the product and it's exciting to see it finally coming together! There are many interesting shots that have been emphasized throughout to portray something about Fatima and Darina; such as trying to connect with the audience using gestural movements. By doing this Brandon and me were able to link the scenes up; this is important as although the scenes are all different in their own way; they need to be coherent, it need to flow nicely. We feel that it needs to be less repetitive through adding some different shots. 

Evalution of the Shoot Day

We began to get ready the day before we shot the video. We constructed the first set which involved hanging materials from ceiling.The next morning we set up the the cameras and got all of the cast in costume on time and on schedule. The first set took longer than we expected to shoot as the set looked very good and we wanted to capture it from many different angles and try lots of different shots. Because of this we had to rush into making the second set which was Fatima lying on the floor. This scene we shot with a crane and we put water over Fatima. We spent some time shooting it and it went okay, not as well as we had planned. Because of the water we had to spend some time clearing up to get ready for the next set. The rest of the sets we managed to shoot all according to schedule. Some things that caused complications was the scene with all of the flour on the floor as this took some time to clean up, especially to get ready for the last scene. The last scene involved putting down a structure with smoke machines which we put pebbles all over to look like a hot coal runway. This last scene was the most complicated to shoot as we had a tracking shot going around 180 degrees, as well as two of our group members holding the elastic back to constrain Darina. The scene which we had planned to have the silhouettes of two dancing girls did not pan out as we had expected, as the shadows did not cast as well as we had thought, but this was not a big issue as we had plenty of good footage from this scene anyway. In Summary I am pleased with the way that the shoot went, and I am glad with the work that we did. We also did some very good camera work using equipment such as the crane and tracking shot. We were also very good as a team and we worked very well together, and the cast that we had selected also did not let us down.

Shoot Schedule