What remains to be done!!!

As of now, we have filmed all of the shots we needed in the dark room at college. In these shots our "artist" is lipsynching, which we've filmed from a number of different angles. We have added these shots onto final cut, and edited them all to be in the right places and so they cut on the beat. Blog wise, we've added our test footage on, which needs to be analysed, done our storyboard, attempted to contact Lady Gaga and a lot of other posts for the planning of the video. However, we still need to complete our shot list on our blog and add more posts on editing research. We also still need to film all of the natural, outside shots, edit them into our video and then change all of the filters on the different parts of the video, all in time for the deadline on 11/11/11. D:

Attempt to contact Riveting Entertainment

As trying to contact Lady Gaga was unsuccessful  we decided to attempt to contact Riveting Entertainment. We feel that this is a more realistic idea and we have a better chance of receiving a reply :)
Unfortuently they did not reply the our email either, of which we asked for any tips that they could give us and what advice they would give us in regards to a slow, romantic song such as the one we are doing.

Progress Diary 10/10/2011

This lesson we have researched into digipaks, and researched further into specific digipak , such as Lady Gaga's The Fame Digipak. We looked into the style of Lady Gaga's digipak and how it relates to the genre of her music and her general style.
Also we came up with thoughts and ideas as to what our video should be based around and what we should focus on. We couldnt decide if we wanted to to be a story and make full sense to the audience or if we should do more abstract and unique shots that werent in a chronological order such as in Rhiannas video 'rudeboy'.
By the end of it we wayed up each of our different styles by writing down what could be included for each and decided on  a video that is understandable and has a story present because we felt this was the option that we had the most ideas for.

Digipak research

A Digipak is a type of CD, DVD or BD cover. It is used to advertise a cd or dvd, through images. It also contains information such as who wrote the song and other behind the scenes acknowledgement.  They usually consist of a card gatefold, with one or more plastic trays that hold the disc.

Here is a digipak for Lady Gaga's The Fame Album:

This Digipak is quite dark overall, with a bit of colour on each part of the Digipak which puts the focus on Lady Gaga herself. The white font also stands out well against the black background. It shows the audience that she is quite dramatic through her poses and her outfit, which can almost be related to her music as it is quite different. The vibrant colour relates to the pop genre, which is fast, upbeat and cool. The overall look of the digipak, gives of the vibe of a 'club scene', which once again links to the style of Lady Gaga's music (pop,dance etc).

Beyonce.

Beyonce digipak has a much more elegant feel to it, and is much more reserved compared to Lady Gagas, which will be taken into consideration when we do our digipak because we may want to 'break the mould' of your typical Gaga style and look at something simple.
This example is simple, but its very bold and i feel makes a big statement.

Test Footage (Fade shot)

Storyboard for our initial ideas.

Box 1- We wanted to start our video    with a girl walking away with the sun coming down behind her and surrounded by a path of trees, with this starting before the music itself so it acts as an introduction to the music.

Box 2- After this we wanted to add a flicker off images of the man and women of whom would be in our video, which showed the good times that they had in their relationship. They would come over the screen and interlay.

Box 3-

attempt to contact gaga via twitter

We found out the other day that Lady Gaga has just arrived in the UK, so we are hoping that we can do everything we can to attempt to get hold of her so she can give us some tips to make our music video.

Here is our attempt to contact Mumma Monster herself, we haven't yet got a reply however.