Fake New Year - 31st December 2012

For the weekend before New Year my family and I planned to meet up with my cousins family. This was a good advantage for me as I could ask for my cousins help for filming.

Her characters role is important as she takes part of the 'dreamer' - main character. Her aim is to display a confused, scared expression and with this, her acting paid off, although I believe I found two different seconds of her looking into the camera. In my video I don't plan any interaction with any characters & the camera. On the other hand, I'm not annoyed with this occurrence as I filmed this certain shot twice. I can easily manipulate these two shots into one without the viewer realising there is actually a fault.

In the time limit of two days, I gathered running shots using mid shot and longs shot. I filmed my 'waking shots' with my character on the ground, here I included some panning's over the body along side long shot's and mid shot's. Panning's that were included followed the character at a long shot so that the viewer coul see the surroundings and where the character was heading.

DigiPak

The picture below is an example of me experimenting with ideas for my Digipak. On my first edit, I decided to lash out with colour and find the kind of poster I would like - using different colours and pictures. So this is my first attempt, the picture used is one I used from a photo-shoot for halloween a couple of years ago. I did start out with a black background, that's when I decided to add some colour. Firstly, I started off using only 3 colours but personally, when I came to finish using up all the available space, it was looking a little too simple, so I chose to add secondary colours as well as primary. The colours that I finished with all clash together. This represents the songs and moods given through the vibe of the lyrics.

I used photoshop along side lots of different effects and I included a picture from an old photo shoot of make up that I am using in the video. The make up itself was inspired by The black swan movie,
displaying black wings sweeping across the entire eye. I had actually used this for Halloween; the make up was quite effective as the eyes are bold and almost devilish.

This picture was taken from last years Halloween, so as I thought I didn't really need to do another photo shoot I opted to use this one as I thought it was relevant and suited my design; so I manipulated this image so that the viewer couldn't tell that it is me.

I chose to use multicolours on the front cover as I wanted the album to be eye-catching but I also want the appearance of the Digi pack to be a presentation of feelings, this can describe the content of the album with the songs and also show the typical mood colours that portray different feelings such as, red for anger, yellow for energy, purple for confusion and orange for calmness etc.

Accounts

I've been having trouble recently trying to upload my footage on Final Cut Pro, this was because my user was full of other work. Although it didn't work and only sent through a few scenes I was able to look at the effects and summarise what they do. So with my few shots I had experimented with every effect such as, 'earthquake' to shake the entire picture, 'fish lens' to use a circle zoom on the centre of the picture and different filter settings that made the video either black and white, negative, vintage -soft, grainy, multicoloured or sharp. There were many more effects and there are still some I need to figure out.

So with the minimal space on my account, I have now another user just for my music video. I have tried to upload this and I am still, for some reason, having trouble. A small symbol when I press 'Log & Tranfser' highlights my videos and says 'Unknown:Error'; this is something I don't understand; whether I've pressed a setting I shouldn't have or there's something wrong with my camera. Because I'm not so experienced with Final Cut Pro, I will need a hand to make sure all 30 videos are uploaded correctly with ease.

My next step is to find my Digi Pack designs and piece them together as well starting to produce my video for good.

Comparisons / Similarities On Genre

find similar videos to alice and analyse them
 two three at most.
mise en scene, sound, camera, characters. lyrics.


Lots of different artists over the years have taken extreme measures into what 'Wonderland' could be, there are surreal stories of drug use and bizarre creatures involved in this 'world' but there is also another side which explains the evil side of life i.e being trapped or being insane. Avril Lavigne's take on the 'Wonderland' is explaining the determination of escaping a dream, or situation happening.

Alice In Wonderland had quite an impact on people and their views on what and how it could be. Gaming companies created big story games on pc's and game consoles where the player could virtually walk through Wonderland and explore the hidden secrets and odd characters.
Some artists chose to act in certain scenes of the animation movie such as the the big kitchen which Alice had shrunk.
I've chose several songs here to demonstrate how some artists have decided to portray 'Wonderland.'

Alice's Location 6th January 2013

In this shot, I chose to perform a long shot, this is because on this day of filming it was quite misty and I felt it gave a really good effect and made the atmosphere eerie. 

On the actual filming days I will not be counting on the weather to be misty as I'd like clear weather instead, with this, as its extremely cold I'm not asking for clear skies either.

 This is a long shot of the park, this quite clearly shows the density of the mist and effect it has changed of the surroundings. 

In my music video I will be using scenes like this to introduce my location with panning and effects like, shakiness and different colour filters such s black and white, an extreme contrast change or a mild change in the histogram to make the picture stronger.

In this photo, it shows the entrance to the right of me of the park, I was thinking through my process of creating a story board that I end the video with my character 'escaping' from her dream and exiting the video through a long shot or mid shot of the gates.

I really admire this photo because of the extreme change in the trees. It creates a wickedly change in the normal view of the park on a summer day and makes the park look isolated and almost 'dead' in the form of how the trees are represented and how they sit. The thick bent branches and trunk almost mimic a persons crooked body creating different shapes and strange positions. 

The centre of the photo has the most dramatic change in distance and focus. It has both height decreasing from left to right and even the dying stages of a living tree, slowly shrinking and degrading into the ground.

The photo itself is quite powerful using the long shot as the whole picture is aimed at the uneven, tangled trees. It portrays power in the sense of the trees towering over the camera and strength as they stand tall together. 

In my video I will be using shots of the trees from various angles like mid shot, long shot and close ups of the trunks displaying patterns and age. To the video, I believe it will add mystery and uncertainty, especially as they will make the video 'creepier' and more eerie to the fact they look like hands and bodies.

I took dozens of shots for this location point as I really liked the composition and the depth in it but also because I am planning to film within it. I have already filmed various things from my story board to include. Now I need to figure out if I need any other different takes to insert.

I like this photo because it shows life on both sides, 'The crooked body', surrounding an ever ending path.

I thought this picture was one of the most strange and eerie as this tree stood by itself in the centre of the park as though it was trying to reach out to others further away like a giant hand.

I chose to do a portrait shot as I only wanted this tree to be individual as the mist behind didn't cover the trees heavy enough.

Attempt & Unattempt - 18th December 2012

Tonight I arranged to meet my friend to film with me down at the park. So straight after college at 4:00 I arrived at her front door. Now at this time the sky is rather cloudy but looking good enough to film. Now with an optimistic mood, we drove down to the film location. But the distance it takes to reach the park took the amount of time that the sky decided to turn black. I was quite surprised of how fast it became dark and with this, I just couldn't film. I'm starting to struggle to film now as it's just too dark too early.