Photo shoot

These are just some of the photos that we took on the first day of shooting. Jessica on top of the piano.

This is our make up artist doing Jessica's make up.
We needed Mrs Mayet to do jesse's make up as she knows quite a bit a bout make up and also because we aren't that good.  

Shamima

First day of Shooting!

On Friday 22nd, we started filming the piano scene in the Great Hall. However, it was not as easy as we thought because we faced many difficulties regarding the white net we were gong to use as a background. We were unable to string it up high enough and resulted in leaving it for another day. But, (there's always a but) we did get some excellent footage of Jessica (our actress) playing the piano - SHE LEARNED HOW TO PLAY THE TUNE - BY HERSELF!!! (SHE'S AMAZINGG) so, we got a varied range of shots, slow pans, over the shoulder, cose ups on her hands on the the piano keys, etc.

Below is the epic fail we called a background:

Also, we had a LOT of difficulty shifting the piano, but eventually we got there:

 Nilufa

Costume idea's and Make Up

Here is an idea of what our Artist is going to be wearing, there are number of outfits for different location.

Black long dress


The above outfit is for 'The Great Hall' scene.

The above outfit is for the bedroom and canal side scenes.

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Props for Music Video

The types of props we are going to need for the video:

- Medium size box filled with mens perfume, love notes, t-shirt, small teddy bears, this prop will be seen in the bedroom scene - Tamanna is responsible for this.
- Last week (Wednesday 13th October 2010) Shamima and Nilufa went out and bought 8 yards of white coloured net, this is going to be used for the piano scene hanged up around the piano to make the atmosphere more affective and believable for the audience.

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Meeting - Agenda

Everyone had turned up to this meeting.
During this meeting as a group we discussed about the MUST do before filming.


1) Costume plan
- Black long dress (Glamorous wear) this is for the sector when Jessica is playing the piano which is located at The Great Hall the reason to why we chose to do this, is because the song sets in motion and it creates a calm and affecting atmosphere.In addition it meets the audience’s expectation of the song which helps to draw the audiences attention as they would want to know whether the music video has the expectation they considered the video would represent. As for location we chose to do The Great Hall as this is a large area and took advantage of using it as the facilities are available and easy to access and the whole idea of a women playing a piano alone in a huge room would create the touching affect.
- White tunic top, black leggings, Tan/Black ankle boots (Casual wear) this is when Jessica is in the bedroom, we decided to have the casual wear in the bedroom because in Pop music video’s you do not view singers in their pajamas regardless of the situation whether they are in bed, they always have casual fashionable clothing therefore we have gone with this ideology.
Location bedroom and canal as a group we discussed how we wanted to generate an impression of the character reminiscing and looking back at her love life and also would like to build up the tension with the characters emotion and feelings.
 2) Locations: Thames barrier, Canal, Nilufa's Bedroom
3)Time of filming - Day/Night/Evening
4) Storyboard
5) Weather Forecast
6) Give Jessica the lyrics and song


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Allison Crowe - Lisa's Song Lyrics

The song is about Allison's friend who went missing one night and she hasn't been seen or come home.

These are the key lyrics I took out from the whole lyric, from the brief lyric we wanted to portray a young lady emotionally wrecked and lost without the person she loves in her life, in our video this would be her boyfriend instead of a friend.

And held you in my arms
There’s no reason to be scared anymore.
Took you home
And held you in, held you in, held you in.
Just stay home
Don’t come outside to play
Circumstance beyond control
I feel so helpless.

The key idea we obtained from the lyrics is that in our music video we would have the actress reminiscing about the time she had with her boyfriend this will be portrayed by showing props such as notes and clothings etc.

Nilufa and the gang

Weather Forecast

Whilst planning our Schedule shoots, we also had to think about the forecast for weather by location as it is significant as we don't want too film while it's raining or if its a gloomy weather as it would not fit in well with our music video.

However on later stages there will be an update of the Weather forecast.

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