Location for Sunday

We are filming on Sunday the scenes that involve a load of powder paint. Woot.

Me, Athena, Lucy and Rosie will be doing our thaang whilst covered in colourful paint. We will be dancing around, getting some still shots, running, us three taking Rosie to our 'Wonderland Lair' (see above) and etc. We are the Princesses of Random Shots and we shall live up to this title this weekend.

This is us as Princesses of Random Shots.

Names, Names and Names

Band Name:
(drum roll)

ARLA

ARLA becuase Alice, Rosie, Lucy, Athena. Not even remotely interesting or wild.

Album Name:

FIND A WAY TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD AGAIN

I used the random generator that Pete put on his blog for the practice album cover, but I also picked and manipulated some of the quotes because I'm not that random.

1. Half As You Deserve

2. Newspapers With News

3. Beautiful Things

4. Deep End

5. Random Act

6. No Faith

7. Internet Connection

8. In The Midst

9. Denmark Street

10. Flightless Bird

11. Civil Wars

12. Find A Way To Make Friends With The World Again

DEEP END is the mutual track that we are doing the music video to (It's really Starry Eyed by Ellie Goulding... Tricked you)

The Signifiers and the Signified...

(This post title sounds like a really bad film...)

Anyway.

The signifier in our music video is the jumper that Rosie wears:

And the signified from this is that our character is a figure who seeks a place that she feels normal and free, for example: Wonderland.

Media Language

Here is a fantastic SlideShare presentation on Media Language:

Media Language - semiotics incl Goffman from J Thrasher

Its really going to help me in my research about Digipaks and music videos to help with A2 so I will be doing a vlog about what I have learnt from this in the half term, so watch this space:

Haha, so funny.

Digipak!

This is the template that I will be using for my Digipak! Its the basic four panel one, which is going to be simple but hopefully what I create is imaginative and colourful enough to over look that. I just don't want too much going on.

Material: 300gsm card with a matt varnish. 

Printed in only one colour. 

Spot varnish, lamination and embossing available.

Dimensions (based on standard 4pp digipak): finished size of 139.5mm x 6mmx 125.5mm

I do not want a leaflet in my album, just the raw music but I'm oh so alternative.

Lyrics

I only have one concern with the footage we got yesterday; the lyrics/lip syncing.

Although Rosie learnt all the lyrics and sang them perfectly, we kept starting the song from the beginning every time we shot except for the scene in the 'woods' so that might be hard to sync over the song to make it look like she's singing like Ellie Goulding.

It will take a lot of listening and lip reading to make it fit with the words in the editing process, which can be done, but I am a little worried.

I am sure that we can do it though. I have faith. *Plays 'Faith' by George Michael*

Image of a worried cat.

Filming!

FILMING WAS A SUCCESS!

We went to the Wobbly Bridge (unofficially named by us) by St. Paul's cathedral to get some shots of Rosie walking amongst some randomers.


The plan was to just get Rosie walking through London, but we decided the bridge looked awesome and there would be business people walking with her to make her stand out. The other shots were totally unplanned but our group are known for our random shots. They're always awesome, without sounding like I'm tooting my own horn... No, actually, I am tooting my own horn. Toot.

I got a really wide variety of shots, from her walking towards me on the bridge, then sitting in front of St. Paul's to Rosie walking through a mini-forest thing by the Tate. I got a whole 4 minutes of footage so obviously we'll have to cut it down but at least we have all of these.
I have included some snap shots to show that I'm not lying.

She's such a natural, so it all looks awesome!

Here's a snippet of the clips I got:

Filming.. Take 2

SO.
We didn't go filming on Thursday 30th of Jan because Rosie had other engagements and we went to go last Wednesday, the tube drivers thought they'd put a spanner in the works and strike.

So here we are, Tuesday 11th of February. Today, we are DEFINITELY filming in London.
Rosie will be showcasing her new hair and hopefully we get everything we need and a little bit more. The lyrics are printed so we'll all be singing them walking down a street in our beloved capital to make sure Rosie doesn't feel weird. We'll have lots of people looking at us but it's all in the name of Media.


A blog will follow tomorrow and some snapshots. Hoorah!