Lip Sync Shoot

Today I will be filming the lip sync. I will film 3 versions. One front on and the other two from different sides. 
With me I will have a copy of the lyrics, the song itself, a green screen, camera and some lighting. 
For the visuals, I'm only filming them as very close up shots, so the only my actress' lips will be seen, for this, I have some dark lipstick, the same lipstick used in the other shots. 

Symbolic Details

For one of the parts to my narrative, I will need to represent some sort of witch craft symbol. One idea would be to go work with a pentagram

Aside from the pentagram, I have two other options as seen below. With the context of these I am not sure if they symbols do actually represent anything, but have frequently been used in TV shows surrounding witch craft.

The pentagram will be the best known symbol, however, the other two being more unknown may add more of an effect on the atmosphere of the video with the unknown symbols.

Edit So Far

This is the edit  I have so far. I still need to film the 'ritual' and 4 lip syncs. I have more footage than  can actually make use of so not all of the footage in on the timeline.

I have also now placed markers on the beat of the drums so I know where to cut the footage so it matches the beat.

Change of storyline:

For the narrative aspect of my music video, the initial video was for the lead to be chased by own sin in real time. However when shooting this scene, the atmosphere had to be creepy so I shot the scenes at around 5pm after sunset. This did not turn out well because it was too dark and there was very little street light and I could not use studio lights because I was outside so did not have access to a power supply.
Within the next few days I re-filmed the footage in day light at around 1pm. This shoot had the correct lighting and I could actually see my actress on screen. My plan was to then edit the footage to make it look like night in post production. However, after trying to edit the footage, I found the best I could do was make it more blue. This did not make it look like night. Rather than finding the perfect time to re-film, I have now changed the details slightly to show the lead chased by her own sin in her dream, possibly sleep paralysis. To further this, I will have to show some sort of ritual which has led to the state of sleep paralysis.

Here is what the 'dream' footage will now look like:

Fans Of The Supernatural

As mentioned my video will centre around witchcraft and the supernatural. This inspiration comes from the current rise of success of TV shows featuring such concepts; Buffy, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, The Secret Circle etc. 
There has also been an increase in the amount of people basing their music around the notion of witchcraft too - this all has had mixed responses.

This Screenshot shows a comment left on a song called 'Santified' - one of the other comments also refers to The Originals (one of the TV shows based around Witches, Vampires, Werewolves and hybrids of all 3).

In terms of Buffy, the character was 16 when the show started and it ran for 7 seasons leading Buffy to be 23 years old by the end. Due to the long run, the audiences grew up with the show, hence the reason for the age range of the TV show to be 16-34.
In terms of the other 3 shows; The Vampire Diaries, The Originals and The Secret circle, they are all linked and share, relatively the same audience. The Vampire Diaries was the first to air out of all 3 and was originally a book written by L.J Smith, the same author wrote the books The Secret Circle which led to that franchise being made into a TV show. Lastly, The Originals is a spin off of The Vampire Diaries portraying where it all began with the original family of Vampires, Witches and Werewolves.

Referring back to the screenshot - as you can tell, not everyone is impressed with the popularity of the supernatural, despite this, it continues to rise, especially with the coupled rise of New Religious Movements. The song this was left on, was by The Veronicas, whom I have heavily based my artist on.

Target Audience

 As seen on the previous post about the original artists fans; I have constructed my own target audience.

I have concluded on my target reach being between the ages 14 - 25. This is the general age range of fans of TV shows which portray elements of the supernatural.

Below I have a picture of a female and male - both, people I would target this product towards

 






















Both are between the ages of 14-25
The female is of Australian decent, now living in LA where there is a lot of commotion surrounding rituals, with many people leaving institutional religion to move onto the New Religious Movement of Spirituality - where magic and the use of crystals can be seen around many places and around many people. Prior to LA, she spent a few months in Nashville, where there is an increasing interest in voodoo and thematic magic.
 The male is younger than the female and is currently studying for his A - Levels, studying Philosophy, Business and English Literature; due to the rise of TV shows centred around the supernatural, he too, has a keen interest of entertainment from the concepts surrounding these TV shows. Although he is not necessarily of a NRM, he does have a keen interest.

Due to the genre and type of voice, I don't think my target audience would have a specific look or appearance - their interest in Paige Cavern would simply derive from common ground around the supernatural.

Audience Research

Which magazine would advertise the album/singer


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check original artists' demographic - Facebook/twitter

As can be seen here, the fan demographic for the original artist ranges from ages 18-24. Although this stat is not fully representive because not all fans or admires of the band will have liked the fan page and also not all fans have a Facebook account so they would not be able to like the page.

check sub-catergory on ITunes

The album the song is from lies under Alternative on ITunes.