More ideas for the front and back cover

Elsie thought that it would be a good idea to add our band members to our CD's front cover (as it is quite common for artists to appear on the front of their albums, as it is a way to promote themselves). In a previous lesson, I had the inspiration to have our band members face the front of the front of the cover and the back on the back cover while doing my analysis of a band website and seeing a similar concept for the McBusted album cover. Therefore, Elsie came up with a rough idea, where on our own CD, the band could be facing forward (although a lot of their faces wouldn't be shown, due to them not really being shown much in our music video). She then though that it would be a good idea to then show the band on the back cover, as if they were facing away. Elsie then went and drew a rough draft of this idea to see how it would look (and she thought that we could incorporate this into our CD by having the band looking upwards towards the falcon (one of our previous ideas we have talked about) on the front cover, and then the band looking at the track list on the back of the CD.

Here is the rough sketch that Elsie drew of this idea:

Sixth day of filming

Today we filmed from 3:30pm - 5:30pm and remembered to book all the equipment we needed (DLSR 4) along with the props (black dress, white cardigan, picture of boy and small box).

To begin with we re-shot the girl opening the box with a picture of the boy in it as we found it difficult to match the lighting with other shots in editing. The reason for this is the original shot was shot at Elsie's house in natural lighting while the shots following it were shot at my house in which we used un-natural lighting.

Next we moved on to redoing the shot of Laura throwing the picture as we found that the original shot was quite blurry as it was too fast, so it was not noticeable and did not have the impact that we wanted when adding it to the music. To fix this problem we decided to do a variety of shots from a close up of Laura's hand before she throws the picture and a long shot of when it is in the air.

Finally, we re-shot the close up of my face for the beginning shot at the sleepover, as when comparing it to the shots of Elsie and Laura we found the lighting was different because we had a much darker background while our faces were lit up. Meanwhile, my original shot was lighter with it being more fully lit due to other lighting than the torch such as the lamps in room. To fix this problem we made sure that we got rid of some of the lamp lighting we used before filming so it did not interfere with how bright the shot was overall. We also tried to put the torch I was holding in a variety of places to see where it would look best in showing the contrast between the bright light and dark background to create a spooky atmosphere.

Here are some screenshots of what we filmed:

Sixth filming schedule

Behind the scenes and outtakes

Here is a quick vlog showing some behind the scenes footage and outtakes from our final music video. 

Day five of filming

Today we filmed again at my house from around 4:00pm - 6:00pm. We remembered to bring all of the props and costumes that we needed (black dress with white cardigan, bag and flannel shirt), along with the equipment (DLSR camera and tripod).

What we filmed:

• We filmed the long shot of Elsie running up the stairs again, as in editing we noticed that she had forgotten to carry the bag (which would cause problems with the continuity within our narrative).
• The close-up shots of Elsie punching the wall is also something which we filmed again, as the previous ones that we had filmed did not look like a smooth match-on-action shot.
• A mid shot of Elsie sliding down the wall.
• An extreme close-up of Elsie clenching her hair in frustration.
• A close-up of Elsie clenching her fist.
• A close up of Elsie's teary eyes (we used mascara here, and decided to smear it down her face to make it look as if she had been crying).
• A long shot and an over the shoulder shot of Elsie throwing clothes down the stairs in anger.
• We then decided to shoot some stop motion footage that we had planned to match to the lyrics 'Ugly is the'. For this, Laura drew a silhouette of a girl holding an umbrella with the rain pouring down (while each rain drop will appear in each frame, to make it look as if it is raining on her).
• Finally, we decided to film the lip syncing part for Laura and me again. We wanted to do this as in editing we found that when it came up to linking up to the music, it looked as if we were both saying different things.
• A shot of Elsie turning the torch on (which will be used for the instrumental at the beginning of the music video, before the singing starts). 

Here are some screenshots of what we did today: