Candidate Number

Candidate Number - 9424

Friday 19 December 2014

Test Export after hoping to fix colour change

video draft Vimeo


prelim edit from Roshni Mepani on Vimeo.

This version on Vimeo seems to be the same as the version on Youtube. This leaves one other reason for the change in colour correction. When exported the colour correction must have changed its code.
I researched on this issue and found I am not the only person to encounter this problem.

Video Draft youtube



This is my draft for my music video. What I have noticed is the colour correction looks different once exported.

This is the original version in final cut, the below picture shows the video on YouTube. There is a clear difference with the colour. The final cut version looks more orange and suits the atmosphere with the candle better. However the youtube version looks more green and washed out. This ruins the quality of the video and it simply looks like it was done in day light with very strong lights.

To fix this, one of my teachers suggested to try uploading the video to Vimeo, because Vimeo generally had better quality and has different coding to YouTube






In these pictures, the green around Nicole's lips also shows through in the youtube version *bottom picture* the picture above does not show a line with the green screen

Thursday 11 December 2014

Wicca or dark magic (witchcraft in popular media)


A Very British Witchcraft. from DJ Devil on Vimeo.

Although stating I wanted my video to mirror Wicca, I have now found, Wicca is more about connecting one self with the nature around them. Wicca ritual take place in woodland areas - all around nature.  Their rituals are to meditate and to reflect on what they have achieved in their lifetime.

Wicca, is not something to do with the popular belief of 'dark/black magic'.

This belief derrives from something else, so I will change my description to witchcraft, which is seen more as 'dark magic. This belief has been aided by the success of media such as 'The Witches', 'Hocus Pocus', 'Buffy' 'The Secret Circle', 'The Vampire Diaries' and the spin off of 'The Vampire Diaries' - 'The Originals'

Wednesday 10 December 2014

Shot Types



Behind the scenes

On the day of the shoot, this is what I had pre-prepared - a small glass bowl containing 'blood'. I made this blood by mixing washing up liquid and red food colouring. I had learnt this trick while working at the BFI during the week of the BFI Media Conference. This gives the correct consistency of blood 















This picture here shows the set up of the green screen and my actress filming the lip sync.












 This is the soft-box I had set up to provide the lighting for my music video.

These two pictures show the pentagram I used for the ritualistic parts of my music video. The picture to the left shows the process of drawing the pentagram. I drew the symbol with some white chalk on a cement covered ground. 


Tuesday 9 December 2014

Symbol Influence - 7

In my video, I have two different rituals, one with a pentagram and another with some blood. For the scene with the blood drawn symbol, I was heavily influenced by this scene from the now cancelled TV show 'The Secret Circle'. The symbol can be seen within the first 33 seconds.

For my video, I adapted the symbol slightly to show the number '7' in the style in 'The Secret Circle'. The reason for the number 7 was because the song is called 'Seven Devils' and it is one of the 'Seven Deadly Sins' chasing the lead. Here is how I did it:


Shot Type Influence - Looking up

For the ending of my music video I wanted to reveal who the 'supernatural being' was. In order to do this I took influence from a shot in another music video, Lolita - The Veronicas. Throughout this blog I have mentioned this song and video many times because parts of it reflect the atmosphere I really want. The shot I drew influence from can be seen at the beginning and at 1:51 in.




I created this shot from being influenced by the above video

Thursday 4 December 2014

Existing Magazine Adverts







These are examples of existing magazine Adverts I have found. The adverts relate to the album and all contain specifics. Such as a visual, the name of the artist and album and also business information such as the record label and/or publisher. 

I have included a magazine for the debut album of the original artist of my song - Florence + The Machine. I included Marina and The Diamonds and Evanescence as I believe these artists are similar to the artist I will create.

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Magazine Ad - what to include

Include:
Artist name
album title
'OUT NOW' Physical copy
star ratings with publication name
quote from publication
artist website
social media
Record label logo
Parental Advisory stamp
'Hit Singles......'
Following the smash hit debut

My Actress

My lead actress is a fellow media peer - Nicole. Nicole is 18 years old, has a pale complexion and dark purple hair. She is currently studying for her A levels and is studying Media, Drama and English.
She hopes to study business at university. The song I have chosen is not exactly what Nicole would listen to on a daily basis. In general, Nicole would listen to Pop and RnB and not Alternative Rock as is Florence And The Machine.


Tuesday 2 December 2014

THE eyeliner


When thinking about the Mise-en-scen, I came across this picture, and decided to use it for my artist in the music video as it is not something you see every day; and my video would not be considered an everyday music video.
I followed the same colour scheme at first...
I could not find the same blue so tried to find any blue eyeliner:

The picture on the left shows smudged blue liquid eyeliner with a stroke of black liquid eyeliner on top. The right shows the opposite - there is black liquid eyeliner on the bottom with smudged blue liquid eyeliner on top.









I Then found a tutorial by the Kat Von D who uploaded the original picture



I also changed the colour from Blue to purple because I thought it would suit the atmosphere more.

I then followed the video and mixed it with what I had come up with originally. This is what I came up with. The picture to the left shows the blue liquid eyeliner, although this time it is not smudged, topped with a light, almost violet colour. The right shows the same as the left but with a darker purple pencil liner. The picture below shows the darker purple pencil eye liner and the smudged blur liquid eyeliner.

I will be using the smudged liquid blue eyeliner with the darker pencil purple eyeliner.

Filming day 2

11:30: 
set up shoot on location 
Draw pentagram & blood drawn symbol 
Place candle 
Cover windows with newspapers so natural light still slightly shines through 
12:30
Nicole arrives 
Set up lights, cameras and greenscreen 
1:15
Start shoot
Pentagram shoot, close up on Nicole's arm holding stone over lit candle 
Birds eye view shot to show what she's doing. Places something down in middle, voodoo with skull bracelet DO NOT SHOW HER FACE
Close up to see what she's done. While close up, see metal skull placed in middle 
Film Nicole scoring finger for 'blood' drawn symbol and drawing the symbol possibly on non-covered window 
Voodoo with knife + Nicole full face + pentagram 
2:00
FOOD! 
2:45
Lip synch x4 one close up, one extreme close up, and one mid shot, one side profile 
And extreme close up of eyes, starting down, slowly rolling up infront of greenscreen 
3:30
Split screen scene 
Blue t-shirt Nicole seen running, panting 
Black t-shirt Nicole seen coming around the corner 
4:15 
Hand covered in blood mid shot 
Fist full of black/blue sand 
5:00 
Close up of blowing out candle 
5:10
Photoshoot 
Hand on skull
Legs 
Face candle with face 
Different costumes



Filming day one on location itinerary

12:30 Reach Location
12:35 shoot running scenes 
1:15 looking out over pinn bridge
2:00 end 

Lip Sync Update

When I tried to film the lip synch, I found although the actress has very dark lip lipstick on, on camera and under lighting it looked very pink! 
Also with filming the extreme close up, the camera continuously lost it's focus so for the next try I will have to find another way to make sure this works well without losing focus or the effect of the extreme close up.