Olivia's Media Blog

  Dinner Party Scene 10th December 2022 Today Clementine and I finished off our filming, by shooting the dining room scene. Alongside filming with Lucy and Vedaant, we also needed at least 3 extras to give the impression of a dinner party, hosted by our two main characters. We invited some of our friends, and also used Clementine's brother to act as an additional guest. Once again, we used the curtains to block out some light, however the lighting was slightly different to last week, which is something we will have to correct in post-production.  This week we used a gimbal, so make our tracking shots more stable. Our final shot of the video is a continuous tracking shot, which made the gimbal especially important. It took some time to balance the equipment, but I used the DJI Ronan app to conduct a balance test and make sur...

  Kitchen Scene 4th December 2022 The next stage of shooting, we filmed the kitchen argument shots between our main actors, Lucy and Vedaant. Our actors weren't available in the evening, which was a challenge as we had planned the scene to be in a dark room. To overcome this, we hung blankets over the windows in the kitchen, which proved to be quite effective. In the end the room was quite dark, but still light enough that the quality of footage wasn't compromised. The blankets did add another challenge, as we had to make sure they weren't in the frame when filming. We decided to film handheld, to give more intimacy to the scene and to match the instability in their relationship. We filmed in one long continuous shot, panning between Lucy and Vedaant, so we could just insert sections of the argument into the final cut of the music video. This was quite difficult, as we had to make sure the actors were in focus, while using bo...

  Projector Scenes 1st November 2022 We decided to start off by filming the projector scenes, as we had the clearest idea of what we wanted to film. Clementine and I chose to use one of the projectors at school, as the film classrooms also have blackout blinds which would maximise the effect of the projector. As we had some difficulties finding availability with our original actress, we had to switch last minute and luckily our classmate Lucy was willing to help. To stay on top of our schedule, we decided to film at lunchtime during the school-day.  As we had experimented with on production day, Clementine and I decided we liked the ink spilling effect, so we stuck with the same video. We made sure to check that the video was copyright free, which was slightly difficult as the video we liked was a repost from another account. We managed to track down the original footage, and luckily it was royalty free footage.  This is the original clip we used, made up of compiled fo...

 Introduction Our task was to pick a well known musician and analyse their public image. We compared our chosen artist to Richard Dyer's star theory, which believes that the star image is often manufactured for the sake of building a 'brand'. They do this by constructing a unique selling point based around brand values, that help attract certain audiences. One way of doing this is by making the star relatable, to represent 'real people'. This helps the audience relate to them so that its easier to sell their brand and products. I decided to look at British singer and songwriter Sam Smith.  Unique Selling Point Sam Smith's unique selling point adapted after a few years, shifting to appeal to the LGBTQ+ community once they came out as queer. Their brand is based around around simplistic imagery, instead choosing to focus on their unique and distinctive voice. Since coming out as non-binary and changing thei...