Actor's Poster =]

Using Photoshop, Elliot has created a Poster for us to put up around school, asking for two female actors who can play the sisters in our video. Hopefully it will attract some attention and we can find some reliable actors to be in our video. Here is an image of the poster; as you can see we have kept to the style of the video by putting it in black and white, showing an image from our didpack and using the same font as the digipack.

Storyboard =]

We have started to storyboard our music video using a bedroom as our main location. We made it using a USB tablet attached to a Mac, where you can use a pen to draw straight onto Photoshop, we found this was easier to edit our shots and quicker as we can just copy and paste the same background into each box, we need to vary our shots more otherwise it will become very boring, however this will be a guide storyboard and parts will probably change when we start shooting.

We are going to change the scenes by having parts of the narrative contrasted with shots of the a band, we are going to try and edit this so all you can see is a guitar and the fingers playing it, then just the lips and eyes of the girl singing will be seen.

PJ Harvey =]

We researched PJ Harvey as she has a similar genre of music and lyrics, to the song we are using, 'Girl with one eye.' This is her official website. She writes her own song lyrics which are quite dark and serious. This is very similar to Florence + the machine.

 

 

 

 

THE DEVIL

As soon as I am left alone
the Devil wanders into my soul
and I pretend to myself.
I pretend to myself.
I go out to the old mile-stone
insanely expecting

you to come there, knowing

that I wait for you there.

That I wait for you there.

Come, come

come here at once!

Come, come

on a night with no moon,

because

all of my being is now in pining.

What formerly cheered me,

now seems insignificant.

Insignificant.

Here are the lyrics to one of her songs, they show a dark and moving song, similar to Florence, as they both write their own music. They have similar vibes and interesting music, and the instruments add to the effect of the song with guitars and drums. Her album covers are really original, and she is also has a split screen shot one which is the type of effect we want as the back cover to our digipack. Both have the same genre of music and just listening to their lyrics means you can create images in your mind as it was easy for us to analyse Florence's lyrics and create a narrative for the music video.

This is an album cover from PJ Harvey. This is where we got the idea of having a split shot, although hers is of the same person in different colours, it gave us the idea to split our album cover having a split screen of the two sisters. However instead of using this idea for the digipack it has now been used for our poster, making it look like a torn picture instead of just a split screen.

 

Photoshop Eyes =]

After researching images of eyes, we decided to take pictures of our own eyes to edit on Photoshop to use in our Digipack. We took photos in the Photography studio so we could use bright lights. Elliot is now editing our eyes in black and white, and taking out the pupils etc, but me and Lucy also started to experiment on Photoshop editing the eyes with different colours and making them look grainy or painted and cartooned.

The first eye is Lucy's where she edited her eye so that it was still quite natural but the colours are contrasting, with the warmth of the red and the darkness underneath the eye, we wanted it to look like she had a black eye to show the abuse, it looks scarier as its very bold and the light just catches the side of the eye showing almost how she could be crying as the eye looks wet.

The second eye is mine, and i edited it by contrastinf the colours to give it an abstract feel, it looks like the eye is no longer part of the face which is a very artistic and striking look but i don't think it would work for us as it is too bright, but i still like the experimental look and if we had a really abstract video with no narrative then this may have worked better.

The third eye is also mine and i edited it so it was black and white, and i used the artistic grain affect. I thought this cover is the most effective of the three as it relates to our video the most, yet i don't think the grain works as it needs to look more naturalistic. But i still thought it was an interesting affect to use.

Group Changes =]

We have decided to merge our group together, so Me and Lucy are now working with Elliot to, as this will make it easier for us to split tasks between the three of us. Elliot is also has good skills for editing and Photoshop which will be useful when making our digi pack.

Album Cover Ideas =]

This image was edited on Photoshop, we used the background of an eye from Photovault and added another layer of a dolls face over the top to create it. Our friend Louis helped us create this image of Photoshop.

This is a collection of Indie Rock album cover, they are quite artistic and and bold colours, we have made our digipack distinctive with the use of eyes and images from our photo shoot, using the actors that will be in the video. Our Digipack is different to the original Florence + the machine album cover, yet it is still mainly black and white which gives us that rebellious look that relates to our main target audience

Analysis of Lyrics =]

Music Video Concepts

Lyrics to Girl With One Eye :
She told me not to step on the cracks[At1] 
I told her not to fuss and relax[At2] 
Well, her pretty little face stopped me in my tracks[At3] 
But now she sleeps with one eye open[At4] 
That's the price she paid[At5] 

I took a knife and cut out her eye
I took it home and watched it wither and die[At6] 
Well, she's lucky that I didn't slip her a smile[At7] 
That's why she sleeps with one eye open
That's the price she paid

I said, hey, girl with one eye
Get your filthy fingers out of my pie[At8] 
I said, hey, girl with one eyeI'll cut your little heart out cause you made me cry[At9] 

I slipped my hand under her skirt[At10] 
I said don't worry, it's not gonna hurt
Oh, my reputation's kinda clouded with dirt[At11] 
That's why you sleep with one eye open
That's the price you paid

I said, hey, girl with one eyeGet your filthy fingers out of my pie[At12] 
I said, hey, girl with one eye
I'll cut your little heart out cause you made me cryYou made me cry
You made me cry
You made me cry[At13] 

I said, hey, girl with one eye
Get your filthy fingers out of my pie
I said, hey, girl with one eye
Get your filthy fingers out my pie[At14] 
I said, hey, girl with one eyeGet your filthy fingers out of my pie[At15] 
I said, hey, girl with one eyeI'll cut your little heart out cause you made me cry[At16] 

(Narrative shows to interpretations of this story of the siblings. Both of the sisters mime separate lyrics to express different feelings and issues) 

 [At1]Mental and physical abuse from sibling. These lyrics could insinuate the real her underneath.

 [At2]Physical abuse.

 [At3]Jealousy and Sibling rivalry. The mean, controlling sister pulls an innocent face with horrid intentions and stops the other sibling in her tracks leaving her room perhaps.

 [At4]Sister cut the dolls eye out which is symbolising the other sibling. So now the doll sleeps with one eye open.

 [At5]Depressed look upon her face. Whilst the doll is on the shelf looking towards the girl with one eye.

 [At6]Takes knife and cuts out the dolls eye. The horrid sibling keeps the eye in her room and watches it wither and die, suggesting her sister.

 [At7]The horrid sister walks up to the sibling and wipes her lipstick from her lips across her mouth to suggest a smile. (The joker inspired type image)

 [At8]This could be suggesting to die. Maybe the lyrics ‘pie’ symbolise life.

 [At9]Nightmare- Older sibling cutting her heart out and terrorising her.

 [At10]The horrid sister slips her hand under the dolls skirt and breaks one of the legs off violently.

 [At11]Close up shot of the horrid sisters face miming the lyrics nastily. Something suggesting her past.

 [At12]The horrid sister slaps sibling across the face for leaving her room or doing something she didn’t like e.g.: stealing her doll back.

 [At13]The terrorised sibling cries with her back leaning against her door and slides down, breaking down in tears.  Self-harming, drug abuse or alcohol.

 [At14]To the beat of the music have one girl being hit across the face repeatedly.

 [At15]Other sibling ends being a heap on the floor maybe to signify suicide.

 [At16]Horrid sister has the last word. One tear runs down her face and she wipes it away briskly as quickly as she can as if she’s ashamed of crying.

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