Photoshoot

Last night we attempted to complete a photoshoot for our advert and digipack. However because of the lighting going down too quick, many of our photos didn't work. This was also made worse by lack of focus on pictures. However we feel we still have a few shots that could work on the product. We will take more photos today to complete the set, then edit and place them in the digipack on Monday.

Video Completion

This week saw the completion of our final cut. After working hard to re film certain parts and editing repeatedly after school and in any free time last week, we finally got to see the end result. As a group we are happy with our final product. We felt that as the subject must be approached delicately, we captured the struggles of a teenage girl and her appearance in a subtle manner. This was extremely important to us, as the topic of anorexia is a subject has all affected us through our friends. Using just Sarah (the actress) and no other characters reflected the loneliness and personal side of the problem, which makes us think about what people are like behind appearances.

As the project has progressed we feel that the video has really made us think, and hopefully will make our audience feel what felt when making and watching it.

Film Equilibruim

As we decided on an appropriate ending, we looked at more music theorists. We decided that Todorovs theory does not really apply to our video, with us going against his five stage theory. As our video begins with the problem, the equilibrium is already broken and the problem needs to be restored at the end. However, because the song doesn't actually come to a conclusion, we didn't want the problem to be fully restored. We wanted to leave it up to the audience interpretation. This has led to our artist being used as some sort of 'hero' figure. From our rough cut, we found that the audience saw the performer in the end scene as perhaps a ghost/angel, helping the living with problem. However the audience won't find out what happens after the the performer is introduced in the narrative and offers some sort of help.

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Yesterday didn't turn out as expected, with us not staying back to complete editing. This was because the date coincided with parents evening as well as Abbie being ill. However we will use tonight as our time to place all other clips into the video timeline. This should leave us with enough time to edit everything else on Friday. On Friday we are also filming our end scene once and for all. This can easily be edited into place on Monday. Today we also planned some ideas for our Evaluation. As it approaches we want to be prepared with a range of ideas which will save us time in the long run.

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Today we continued editing, however we are staying back tonight to edit the bulk of the footage. This will help in hopefully completing most of the video by Friday. We plan to film on Sunday, which although leaves us with a very limited time, it is the only time our actress can film and should be achievable as long as we complete all other editing by Friday. Charlotte S and Matthew have continued planning for the digi-pack and advert, giving us a range of ideas for the final draft of them. 

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Today we basically just carried on from yesterday, with editing our video footage and planning the photo-shoot. We also Have been considering a new logo of just one letter, the first letter of her name 'S' would be appropriate, much like Rihannas 'R'. We hope to achieve this by finding and downloading more fonts which could also be an appropriate logo.

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Today was spent with Charlotte J editing and Charlotte S designing and planning the photo shoot. Matthew has also been helping with photo shoot planning. This meant creating an almost animatic style drawing for the shoot, with ideas for all categories under mise en scene. We decided that we would stay back tonight to complete more editing so that we could potentially finish on Friday. This will give us over the weekend to think of any extra touches that might make our final cut better. We also realised that we have the camera booked for Wednesday and Thursday which gives us just enough time to complete an end scene for the video as well as any extra clips we want to try out.