Planning: Props

Props are very important when it comes to making any media filming production, the reason for this is they give the audience an idea of what type character they are viewing, for example if the character is rich, then some form of expensive accesories will be found on them therefore this show some factors of realism.

Teddy bear - this children toy is used a lot when it comes to involving children into filmings etc, it shows the fact that they are innocebnt and vulnerable and makes them a character the audience will feel for the more. a teddy bear is quite easy to provide thinking reasonable to the fact that every children would have one or more. the reason this toy is going to be in use is due to character three's age, it seems like an appropriate use of prop to give more understanding of what type of a person she is.




Due to what is going to take place in the music video, the use of a chocolate bar  will commence as a scene will take place in a small shop having a character buying a chocolate bar. although this might seem like a hard task to make a scene in a shooping location however i believe there's a shooping location that is proven to be available for use.

Lighting

The location that the filming will be taking place will be both interior location and an outdoor location, this therefore means I have to be aware about the outdoor lighting so its suitable for my music video, for example, filming might be ready to take place and then finding out the weather is really cloudy which will lead the filming looking dull.



My main location where my filming is mostly going to be taking place is my house. The reason I choose my house is because firstly I have access to use the location, secondly the music video is going to be based on a families relationship so its right to use a family home as the main location.


Lighting can make a big difference to music videos as light can:
It can control the mood of the video (e.g.. bright lighting could connotate happiness).
It can make the viewer look in a certain direction and it can put emphasis on main elements of the video, for example an important prop or facial expression.

In order to make our video seem more professional we have decided to reshoot some of the shots in our video for example: the stop motion figures of Mat in the street due to the lighting not being bright enough.

Photoshop Editing Practise 2

This is a Photoshop practise I did to simply improve my knowledge with Photoshop, this simple process involves finding a random female photograph to practise on. the reason I choose this image is due to the angle that she is leaning her head, make it me think more about positioning and also the proportion that is needed to be taking in account if any editing is done.

I firstly started with the body tone, basically changing the contrast to giving the image more colour.

then my thoughts lead me to thinking about using surrealism which can be anything from changing any parts of her face to whatever possible. i then though it would be a great idea to change her original eyes into one of an animal giving the image a surreal look. in this process, i cropped an image of a snake to maximise the eyes which i then replaced for the female original eyes.


Here is the finished image i had and i therefore come to realise theres more that could be done to make this better, for example blurring the outline of the snake eyes to make it look more realistic etc.

Here another practise i did in a whole different method but quite effective