Pre-Production: Further planning of Hair and Makeup

As we are coming closer to our music video, we understand we need to gather and productively plan the last of the pre-productive aspects. We fully realise it is crucial to be entirely prepared, focused and equipped for our shoot day on the 21^st.

For example, as Fran and I recently discussed potential costumes for our five cast members, I felt it was of necessary and helpful to create a tabled plan for everyone involved in our shoot, including individuals within my group and cast members. As well as considering clothing for our cast, I also took into account makeup and potential hair styles.

In order to visually see whether our plans for costumes, makeup and hair are successful and effectively communicated on camera, my group and I will arrange a fitting date for our cast. During this fitting, my group and I will clearly see what works well and what can be improved or changed. We are also happy to try new ideas or suggestions from anyone to add to our pre-productive plans for our costumes, hair and makeup, possibly mixing and matching items between the girls.

However, the costumes, hair and makeup fall reasonably straight forward and clear. For instance, we decided to stick to a reasonably loose colour scheme of tones of blue, green, sparks or silver and hints of cream. We feel by having our cast in similar clothing colours it will visually look better more professional and follow the ‘cool, crisp’ look we are aiming for. Our lead singer will have a change of three costumes to distinguish her out from the crowd, however, our other girls only have one costume. I created a planed table including, intentional costumes and hair for each girl and will  also complete a further makeup plan. I will take these tabled plans with us on shoot day, so everyone is on the same page and we all gain easy awareness for everyone involved.

Clothes

Girl	Item	Extra information
Juli	1st - Bottle Green, transparent long, t-shirt dress 2nd - Green and Blue, reflective, shiny t-shirt with shiny silver, sparkly skirt and dark green, furry, long jacket 3rd - Low, cut, velvet, short, dress	1st – Gold hoop earrings, gold rings and black choker. 2nd – Silver rings. 3rd – Silver necklace, silver rings and silver bangle.
Charlotte	Woollen, turtleneck jumper with blue-patterned dress	Gold rings.
Victoria	Silver, shiny, t-shirt dress	Black ripped tights, choker, silver/black rings.
Emma	Silver, holographic, shiny skirt and elaborated, white top or white, fluffy jumper	Rings and choker. Ankle length socks.
Louisa	Sparkly green, turquoise and subtle orange, shiny, long jacket with khaki dark green, long pegged trousers and black, lace, crop top	Gold earrings, gold rings and black choker.

Hairstyles

Girl	Hairstyle
Juli	1st – Bobbled pony tail 2nd – Bobbled pony tail 3rd – Two half head plaits
Charlotte	Two French plaits
Victoria	Slick back hair (down)
Emma	Half headed bun
Louisa	Two space buns

Pre-Production: Further lip sync practice

In our session today, we completed a further lip sync practice shooting our main girl, Juli. We wanted a further rehearsal as we feel ‘practice makes perfect.’ From completing another rehearsal, my group and I can clearly see she is becoming more comfortable and confident with the words, within herself and around us.

Although Juli's surroundings weren't accurate and she wasn't suited in costume, the practice was unquestionably better in comparison to our first run, showing that Juli has been rehearsing in her own time to show the improvements. She is getting a feel for the music more and the actions we are aiming for her to perform. Beneficially, we have given her the words to learn over half term and she knows what she has to do in preparation for another further rehearsal when we come back. My group and I are pleased with the results of this lip sync and are highly impressed by her excess of improved enthusiasm and passion towards our video. 

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Pre-Production: Gaining permission for our location

Part of our process and preparation for our music video, is set dressing the house ready for our music video. However, due to this I understand the respect and authorisation we need from the owner of our location. Gaining permission is a huge step forward in our pre-productive stage as it will give us more hope and realisation towards our concept but also it will allow us to have freedom to pursue our set design ideas.

Therefore, Harvey contacted his parents and they clearly stated we can do whatever we wish and intend to, however, ideas of allowing our girl group to mess around in the swimming pool are out of bounds as the pool is not heated and no individual can go in the water as this will risk health and safety issues due to the freezing, cold water. This is very pleasing information as even though we can’t use the pool, we still have many different elements and actions for the girls to do with permission. Therefore, our ideas of throwing paint, ripping wallpaper, dirtying carpets, playing with water, roller-skating and boarding windows are allowed.

However, we potentially wanted to knock a whole in one of the walls, but this might not be possible, therefore we will knock a whole in the wall in the wardrobe for the same intended effect. Similarly, we were told to be careful if we wanted the girls to splash water as it is not ideal to mix the water with the electrics, so we will be extra careful if excess of water will be involved on shoot day.

Email of gained permission from the owner - Heather.

Pre-Production: Storyboard

As my group and I understand the importance of a story board, we felt it was crucial to create one. Therefore, we split our video into 3 sections to balance our roles evenly, for instance, Fran composed the first 50 seconds, I the second and lastly Harvey took the last 50. We wanted to build a story board for our video as it allows us gain further organisation for shoot day and aided further help and support for other pre-productive aspects.