Fantasy Boy and Signs

we looked at the signs which we had presented our audience with in the music video, the website and with our ideas for our digipack.

Our images of the artists can be seen as iconic as they represent what we deem to be a realistic girl opposing the objectifyed woman often portrayed in music videos. Equally during the band shots, having the words 'Fantasy Boy' written up could be seen as a representation of every girl in our audience and so this provides them with the message that they have a shared experience with other girls their age.

We saw the pink guitar as a feminist symbol as pink is often assoicated with femininity. The eletric guitar can be seen as a powerful instrument and so we thought this was a subtle symobol to suggest 'girl power' amongst the audience.

Mia-Mae joint shot

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For the first time both artists can be seen singing together though both from different angles. The
differences between the the two can be easily viewed. On the left our artist's brightness contrasts with the black background of the artist on the right. We used the shots that illustrated a day-dreaming look from both our artists. The idea was that they look like they're fantasising about the boy they're singing about. We ended with the iconic guitar again as the guitar is part of a dominant theme in the video.

We added a romantic lighting effect to it as it created a more fantastical, surreal image. This made the images brighter and we found it emphasised the pink in both images. I used 4 point garbage in order to shrink the 2 images and then overlap them so that they sing together.

Researching the band's image

We looked at influences of other bands in order to find a similarity between our image and other existing artists.

When I first heard the artist's voice, it reminded me of Avril Lavigne and so I thought it would be a good place to compare the image of our artist and Avril Lavigne.

We looked at Avril Lavigne's website: http://home.avrillavigne.com/

The colour scheme of Black, Pink and White was one that we had already considered using.

We decided to explore the theme of Gothic fantasy. We thought this was fitting to the title of our song 'Fantasy Boy' and so we looked at the fairytale/ fantasy conventions. For our website therefore, we decided to use the idea of the damsel in distress being trapped by a dragon as we felt this was fitting to the lyrics. The other songs written by our artist also helped us conclude that this was the correct theme for our artists.

Guitar close up

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As the Guitar is symbolic to the artist and the music video, we included an extreme close up of her playing it. We made sure that the lighting was directly on the guitar so that the main focus of the shot was the guitar rather than her playing it. We zoomed extremely close to the guitar so make sure it filling the shot as much as possible. We used this shot to link one of our artists to the next.

Back in the studio

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This shot is a big close up of our actress' face as we wanted to emphasise more on her facial expression as that is where she acts the most as I mentioned earlier. With the shot, I was filming her while moving the camera in a semi-circle around her so that the camera was constantly panning around her. I thought that moving with the camera was an interesting and original idea and also allowed us to continue with our experimenting with lengthy shots and shorter shots, so that the pace was varied.

As with the other studio shot we also used our colour scheme. There is still a pink tint on this shot as especially with a close up, we didn't want the black background to override the actress. The pink tint lightens the video which matches the brighter images throughout the other actress' vocals.

Her make up is a light pink colour too as we needed everything other than the background to be light so that the black doesn't overly dominate these shots.

The lighting is still in front of her, though this time it was a problem as I kept walking around her creating a shadow.

Skate Boarding

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Our duration in the Skate park was enjoyable as we had the most freedom here. When editing we tried to do fast cuts between the skate boarding and the girls to give it a vague montage effect.

We asked the actors just to skate around the park while we chose random places to stand with the camera and chose random zooms according to what the skateboarder was doing. In this shot, I stood on the same level as the skateboarders but safely out of their way. I noticed that there were two skateboarders skating in opposite directions and decided it was interesting to film. I decided the best angle to use would be a long angle shot as it meant that I had enough scope to film anything they do when they were skating up and down the ramps.

Again this is black and white as it is part of the narrative, we used this as part of our attempt at a montage. We asked our actor to dress as casual as possible so that he looked natural for someone who was skating around a park.