Test shots-ancillary texts

Here are some shots that we took when we was getting different images for our magazine advert and our digipak for these two things we wanted different elements to be incorporated for the different things for example we wanted more colour in the magazine shot to make sure that we could keep the writing and added elements onto the picture without having to add extra colouring onto it as well, however for the digipak we wanted more basic colours and backgrounds so that we could add the colour in with the writing. we decided  to have different outfits for the two different shots because we wanted the two ancillary texts to look different and have different vibe about them but still have some similarities  to do this we added chokers into both outfits and made sure that both outfits had cropped t-shirts Incorporated in both shots. 

Behind the scene- London day 2

For our second filming day we went with ore of a plan and knew exactly what shots we need and what area of London we wanted to go to, we filmed first on the train we wanted to get shots of Ella on the train so that we set the scene  of the video and made sure that the audience were able to understand that Ella was going to meet someone it the male in London we also get some shots of Ella painting her nails and made sure there this was a feature in the video with her showing her nails throughout the video we wanted this to become a feature and the reason we choose red was to display this throughout and keep a theme of this in the video. 

The first place we went to was back to Nottinghill we knew that we needed to re film some of the original shots as well and get some more shots of Ella being natural in the the area as well as some more shots of Ella walking around the are we wanted to do this to make sure that it was clear whereabouts the date had started off; we then went on to film her in the tube station we wanted to get this shot so that we could establish  that Ella had meet her  in London and at a train station we felt that this would be effective to making sure that they are aware she has meet the male. 

we then went on to film some different shots of Ella lip syncing we fond some places in which we felt fit our music video o film in front of one of the places we filmed was a pink hose we felt the pink would it well into our music video and made a good background we also filmed in a natural area this was to make sure it fit into the theme of our video aso filmed some lip syncing on south bank with big Ben in the background we felt that this would make sure that the audience were aware of where the date was located and where about they had travelled. The final shots we took was in tube we wanted to keep the continuation of the fact Ella was travelling around London on the date and to reinforce the fact that they were in London as the tube is a very London scene.

Behind the scene- Projector

For this part of our video we wanted to create the idea that Ella was watching her own relationship through her eyes and seeing the true superficial love we also wanted the male character to be introduced without the male being in the video fully this is why we deiced to use a projector and project onto Ella's body with her lip syncing the words of the song. For this we used a blank background,a projector and pictures that Ella already had of herself and her boyfriend, we used images that we felt would make sure the audience could get to know the male as well as show them in a loving relationship. When filming this scene we played he song out loud so Ella was able to sing along to the song and we could get the lip syncing correct.

   Once we had filmed the first lot of shot with Ella lip syncing we decided  to re-visit this idea and have Ella from different perceptive we wanted to do this so that we could reinforce the idea that she was watching the relationship and we also wanted to add different images in so that it was obvious that it was a long term relationship with the couple growing together, we filmed Ella from each side of her the font and back we doesn't this so that the audience not only gt to know Ella but get to now the images which are being shown behind her and become aware of her watching the picture. Another part we filmed was Ella moving around we done this with the intention of editing this into fast motion and showing Ella moving around very quickly almost frantically we felt that this would make sure that the audience are aware that he relationship is not healthy and she may be watching it looking happy she is finally seeing it for what it really is with her forcing the relationship to be a good one.  

Behind the scene- London day 1

We completed our first filming day in loon we went to London without much of a plan we knew the different shots we wanted to achieve for or video however we didn't  plan where about we was gong to go in London or what shots we were going to get the reason we done this was we wanted or video to look spontaneous we also knew and had planned another filming day in London this meant that we was able to plan this trip more  once we knew what shots we needed to finish our video off.the first place we knew we wanted to get shots from was Nottinghill this was a place that we had done a lot of research on and we felt would fit our music video very well. Once we reached Nottinghill we stated to film some natural shot of Ella walking down the street as well as some lip syncing shots this was to get a feel of our first setting.Some complication that we found when we was filming in Nottinghill was the amount of people who were there we found that this was an issue because some of our shots were ruined wit  people walking in front of the camera this ruined a lot o our shots and was something that we didn't think much about before filming.

   After we went to Nottinghill we went on to Wimbledon this is somewhere that Ella knew very well this was one of the main reasons we felt it would be good to film here as Ella was bale to direct us to places where she felt would look good and would fit into our music video as we wanted it to almost be from her perceptiveness and by doing areas she knew she as able to have more of an input about where she would genuinely  go on a date.  in Wimbledon we found a lot different natural places to film we wanted this to be an element d our video to make sure there was different parts if the date being shown, we decided to film lot of natural; shots of of Ella walking around with the 'date ' being shown to be behind he, the rea we film in was quite and there was lot of different paces around it for us to film in we stayed and filmed in Wimbledon for a few hours and got the majority of our natural shots filmed with me extra lip syncing that we felt would fit into our music video.

   The last few shots we got o this day was in the tube station we wanted it to be clear that Ella was in London and that they were travelling from place to place on the tube we felt that the tube is a very British and stereotypical to London and would therefore fit into out music video and help to make sure that the audience were aware of what was going on and would help to create the narrative of the video. 

Magazine research

For our publication of our artist we have looked into some different magazines in which we would be able to post an advert for our singers album in, we water to research different magazines which would appeal tour target audience which was 16-20 years old this age group is quite a wide age group so need to condor a lot of different magazine types. 

    The first magazine we reached was teen vogue this is a extremely popular magazine and holds many different famous faces as there covers and is one of the best selling's magazines in terms of teen magazines. with publishing our advert in this magazine would allow us to reach out to large audience size due to the huge amount of readers. This magazine also fits our look very well with having many different indie people having cover shots on this magazine, this means our advert would fit well in this magazine. Another reason this magazine would fit our advert in is because of the amount of adverts which are in this magazine so our advert would fit in to the magazine however a negative of this could be that our advert may not be very noticeable because of how many adverts there is so we would have to make sure that our advert stands out among all of the other adverts . I also found that with this magazine often presented women in a positive way with very minimal skin being shown and sense of dignity being kept for all of the models which are being shown on the front, they also only use very basic makeup and hair to make sure that the main focus is on the models beauty rather than what she is wearing and what she has changed about herself. the colours in this magazine are also very girly and are made to appeal to the female gender, they use pink quite a lot which is often attached to females as well as this the background are often very calm basic colours which appeal largely to females.

Seventeen is another magazine which we found while we was researching different magazines in which are popular to our target audience which we are focusing on for our video this magazine has a lot of famous and popular faces inside and include many different popular elements, we feel that our artist ruth b would fit into this magazine because she has an edgy but very fashionable look about her this is something which is very prominent in this magazine with many fashion icons being in it. We want our artist to have an edgy and indie look about her while making her simple makeup and hair being her trademark we want this to be her trademark because we want our artist to be looked up to and be seen as a role model, we feel that this could encourage girls to wear less makeup and to look natural this magazine we feel will fit our artist and her advert for the new single. this magazine uses much more

  The last magazine that I researched was a more upmarket magazine that would cater for our older target audience the other two magazine i found were focused very heavily at the teenagers of our target audience however the image of this magazine is more grown up with it being more about beauty then celebrity gossip it this is something that we would want our artist to be about as we feel that she would have more of a positive outlook on her audience and fans, this magazine promotes a more positive outlook so with our advert being part of this magazine she would be able to be display herself in a positive way.  

 We went on to interview some of our target audience to make sure that we target our advert well to the audience and to make sure that it is appealing to the audience. We asked 5 people 5 question regarding 5 different elements of a advert, the 5 questions which we asked were; what colours appeal to you on a magazine? Do you look at the makeup and clothes the artist is wearing? What are the main features you look at on the advert? What are the main type of magazines you read? What do you feel makes a magazine appealing? We found from these question that the most popular type of magazine was gossip magazine where or target audience felt like they got to know the artist more, we also found out that one of the main features that the audience look at when looking at a magazine advert was the image that was being presented and the colours  they also felt that this two things should link and work well together so that they give a good overall look for the advert, we also found out that our audience find the picture and what the picture is presenting is something that makes the advert more exciting so when we make our advert I feel that we should focus on the advert we take rather than the writing around the image; from the information we found out we was able to make sure that we catered our magazine advert to fit into what the audience want to see. After we asked these questions we looked into what different advert included we found that a lot of the indie pop adverts were very basic showing little colour and making sure that the main focus was the image which was being used and the artist themselves this is something we want to achieve with our advert, we also found that they were all a bit edgy and grungy we felt that this was a very effective look and was something we wanted to look into with our music video.

  Below I have attached mine and Tia’s draft magazine adverts we both panned and added our own draft adverts this was so that we both had ideas what we wanted to include and so we was able to see some ideas and knew what we both liked and didn’t, we choose what image we was going to use together before we made our final. On my draft I wanted to keep t very basic with the font being in black the reason I done this was because I wanted the main focus and colours to be on the image rather than on the font that has been added I also used quite edgy font this made sure that it had a indie feel about it , I also feel that the clothes that Ella is wearing in the magazine advert are very indie and make the advert stand out well;  Tia added the font in a pink colour this was something we went on to decide against because we felt that although it looked good on the draft we wanted to keep the main one more basic and plain to make sure the image pops however we liked the fact that Tia positioned the font at the top of the advert so that that the audience are able to identify Ella straight away and it also makes sure it is clear. 

Costume list

Here is the costume list so that we remember what our actor needs to wear. 

Lip sync

Here is a video where we practised our lip syncing so that we was able to get our lip-syncing correct in our music video, during this editing we occurred some problems that will help us to know what to do in our music video and we also picked up on some skills that we plan to use when editing our music video. The first problem we found was that ella's lipsycing in some of the different shots we got were out of time and didn't fit into the song correctly so we had to find other shots to use, to fix this problem while filing by making sure that we film the same shot a couple of times so we have more than one option when it comes to adding it into the video. We also found that ella over emphasis her m and b's this is something we can advice ella to not do need time we film and we can also show ella the videos of her from the lip-syncing so she can see what she is doing and practise for the next time we film. The last issues we had during the editing of this was that it took us a long time to make sure that when we are editing our video we leave enough time to be able to edit the lip-syncing into the video well. However we did learn how to add the lip-syncing in correctly and were able to practise making sure that the timing was correct this was something we struggled with in the beginning but soon picked up and we will now be able to use this skill when editing our film.