oh no.. we had to find a new artist!

We took out the cameras today to test our setting and the lighting to see if there were any issues. We are really worried as most of the song will need to be shot inside or in a dark place to demonstrate the 'long night' the artist is singing about and I don't think we will be able to do this anymore. We watched back our footage and the lighting makes the video look really grainy which doesn't look professional, and we don't have access to better cameras or lighting equipment unlike other schools so need to rely on natural lighting. For this to work we decided that although we already have lots of good ideas for our video we will need to find a new artist and start from scratch again so as to make the best video possible.

Looking for a new artist...

We spent some time last week looking for a new song, and we found one! Its completely different to our other song; the genre is pop, and is sung by a woman, with a fast paced, upbeat feel. The song is called 'DollHouse' by Pricilla Renea, who although being a signed artist to the music production company Capitol Records, unlike our previous artist Rozelle, who was unsigned, she isn't very well know; her debut albulm was released in December 2009 but failed to generate success, and none of her songs have videos. This means we are able to think of ideas ourselves without being distracted by the knowledge we already know about her like we would if it was a more famous signed artist.

Once we decided upon this song, we thought we should still keep most of the aspects and ideas from our previous video as we still think they would look effective, but lose other aspects which don't fit our genre.


Aspects we are planning on keeping are:

The photo album effect; we think this will be good to show memories of a past relationship as if the artist is looking through a photo album.

Ripple effect; we thought this would be good if the artist was staring at his reflection into a river or something and then we used the ripple effect to dmeonstrate sadness.

Page curl left effect; we thought this would be good to demonstrate a new page turning in the artists life and to emphasise the idea of chapters in his life.

Swap effect; we thought this would be good to show the two sides of the story (the artist and his ex-girlfriend he sings about) and the swap of them demonstrates this.

Doorway effect; we thought this effect would be good to show how his ex is dominating his thoughts and taking over his life.

Mosiac effect; this would represent there are more than two sides to any story, and would show good and bad sides of each character explaining their emotions.

Cube effect; this would give a view of his life constantly flipping round to reveal a new side, and how he is trying to cope with it.

Circle open effect; this effect would draw the viewers eye to the singer immeadiatly and establish he is the artist.

We really want to learn how to use this effect as it is used in many music videos and we think it looks really good and proffessional. We are unsure about this but think it is something you put in editing afterwards: