Costume Preperations (Sabrina)

In the final scene the main protagonist has to ruin a white dress with paint, therefore i had to find a dress i would be happy to ruin. I began by looking through charity shops for something suitable, but I coudlnt find anthing that would fit my model. However when I looked at home I found an old jumper dress with a knitted turtle kneck. To create the off the shoulder dress I simply removed the top part of the dress and the ends of the arms. These pictures demonstrate the process:

 

This is the finished product of the model:

Album Cover progression (Sabrina)

I started out by drawing out a generic fashion template and then multiplied this image. I then added the outfits I used in my music video. these change in colothing symbloise how ficcle the fashion industy is and that it's the same person underneath.

I am later going to add water colour to these drawings and scan them in, to layer them together in photoshop, for a final image that I will use as my album cover. I feel this will create suitable imagery to represent my music video.

Ansillery Text; Album Cover; Inspirations (Sabrina)

Official A2 BriefCreate a promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with
A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package)
A magazine advertisement for the digikpak (CD/DVD package)

After looking at examples of New Wave style album covers, I have a rough idea of what I want to include on my own album cover. Here is the inspiration I will take from certain album covers -
The New Wave genre celebrated vivid colours and eccentric styles. Many New Wave artist featured pop art on their albums here are some examples:

Patrick Nagel

 A popular artist who actually became famous shortly before he passed away, is Patrick Nagel who was an American artist born in 1945 (passed away in 1984). Nagel’s art focused mainly on the gracefulness and beauty of the female form, and as mentioned before he became famous in 1982 when he illustrated the album cover of rock group ‘Duran Duran’s’ hit album RIO – which is now his best known image.

Nagel’s style was something different to other 80′s artist who had similar styles like pop art and art deco. But Nagel actually started off with photographs of real women, and would then gradually strip away elements he thought were not necessary. This resulted in his artwork appearing flat, nonetheless it emphasized the elements he kept and showed how he thought each element in the image is important – and how some are not needed to create an amazing art piece.

Nagel’s artwork is very graceful and simplified, but in some ways several pieces of his work can appear semi-provocative, but that may be what he intended. In actual fact, in 1976 Nagel contributed some of his artwork to Playboy magazine (which is probably why some of his work appears provocative), and this helped Nagel expand people’s awareness of his work of the women’s graceful form; and how he sees and thinks of it.

Patrick Nagel’s work is very similar to nowadays what we know to be called ‘vector art’. Art that consists of block shaded colours with no gradients or effects, just pure simple colour that makes up an image; the picture below is a nice example from Nagel’s collection:

I've looked at the work of Patrick Nigel as inspiration from my album cover, I found his work related well to the style I wanted to create around the fashion this of my brief. Here I have drawn some sketches fom his work to get a feel for his process and method.

Filming Day Five 31/01/14 (Sabrina)

Today Emma and I filmed the 'male' style scene for our music video. We got this done very quickly because of our previous experience with other shots so we knew what problems we may come across so we avoided them and it went quite smoothly today. Before we started filming I did our female leads make up and then we styled her clothes how we wanted them. We brought in a blazor, shirts and trourser to create a manly look.

For the make up on Emily I made her eyebrows darker and 'bushier' like a man and I also drew a very obvious and stylised mustache. I did this because we were not trying to convince anyone that she was a man but rather just dressing up as one for fashion sake.

 Her clothese were quite stereotypical mens attire and we dicided to use (gender) neutral colours to reinforce that she is only 'dressing up' as a man.

We then began filming for our music video we told our our model which dance moves to do to represent a man, which was quite cahllanging we found that alot of the the scenes was just Emily doing manly mannerisms whilst miming the song. We made her feel at ease by dancing with her and playing the correct song on a phone. We managed to get the filming done much faster again which is a real benefit in finding times that the room with the lights is free because we no longer take very long. We found the shot effective and work well in our video

Organisation (Emma)

To get hold of Emily to make sure she was free to do some filming the next day I got her number so I was able to contact her. This made it easier for us to sort out which days we were anle to do our filming and find out if she was in college that day or not.

Organization (Sabrina)

Scheduling time when we was all free was one of the hardest things about organizing the project. We decided to work around our actors as they was doing us a favor.

Filming Day Four 18/12/2013 (Emma)

Today Sabrina and I filmed the 80's style denim scene for our music video. We got this done very quickly because of our previous experience with other shots so we knew what problems we may come across so we avoided them at all costs today. To start with, Sabrina did our female leads make up (Blue eye shadow, bright red lips) and then we styled her clothes how we wanted them. We brought in denim jackets and shirts and I brought a loose piece of denim I had cut off a skirt that we used for her headband.

After we had styled our model, I set up the camera in order for it to be the same distance and type of shot as our previous shots, I did this by checking it against pictures of our old shots.

Through previous experience of filming, we knew that the lighting was sometimes difficult to match to each shot, so Sabrina changed the settings of the box lights while I watched the camera screen to tell her which setting was light enough.

 

We then began filming for our music video, telling our model which dance moves to do to match the 80's denim style. We made her feel at ease by dancing with her and playing the correct song on a phone. We managed to get the filming done much faster than before which is a real benefit in finding times that the room with the lights is free because we no longer take very long.