Evaluation Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?

From the early 1890s, when three men came together to start one of the biggest developments that would soon engulf the world; projecting a series of still images simultaneously to a live performance; to a modern era in which the technology has helped reform the way we see and use moving images and sound together to create a piece of art. The modern world has given us the benefits of the latest technology to give us the best possible ways of producing a music video, benefits that people in the 1800s couldn't possibly have wished it didn't come sooner.

With this being said I will now move on and discuss the ways that technology has helped us in every stage of our music video. Like all music videos, they require great research and planning. For this we had the help of the greatest advantage of the modern day; the Internet. We also had the help of the already existing music videos, and audios.

At the beginning of the year we each thought of a number of possibilities of what song we should interpret into a music video, but because we all had different tastes in music we decided to compromise. For this to work we looked into each other musical history; Simon and Sarah who are both Rock, and Heavy Metal fans; me being the complete opposite with a taste for R&B, found a common interest in 'Love The Way You Lie' because at the time of its release I, myself was interested already; Simon liked the aspects of creating a video to the song, and Sarah liked the lyrical aspects of it; as well as Simon's 'fan-ship' of Eminem during Primary/Secondary School. So moving on, we were able to use the Internet to inspire us, and to use as a research basis of coming up with ideas. For example, we used 'YouTube' a broadcasting website in which people can post their videos online, a lot of which are music video; just for the sake of naming one, 'Jason Derulo - Fight For You'. By looking at other music videos we were able to think of numerous ideas and ways that we could approach the production. The original version of 'Love The Way You Lie' gave one clear theme, which was domestic violence, so we stayed with this theme and thought of something that can be very stereotypical and commonly thought of, but not shown (I will explain this my post, in which I will discuss the mise-en-scene and representations given). When it came to planning, as its been said I came up with a brief about a vision that I saw in what could be our first scene, other than this, we looked, in terms of research and planning, we started looking at star theory, including that of Eminem, we also went into greater depths of analysing music videos, using Goodwins theory, and Craig Davies model of analysis.

As I've said in a post, some of the equipment that were involved in the processes of constructing our video involved the uses of DSLRs and tripods as well as a number of other pieces of 'production' eqipment; we also had the use of Mac Pro's, and Final Cut for the post production stages of our music video. This is what takes us into the modern world with the main advantage of this being we get instant feedback from our cameras, and we get to piece together the video digitally, meaning we need not worry too much about mistakes. Here are some examples of us piecing together the music video.

Using Final Cut Pro to create a music video required patience and was time consuming, this is because while it is easy enough to match cut the scenes, we had to make sure that the footage remained in sync with the lip movements, and the beat of the song. We also made use of our cinematography skills, because the video played around with time quite a lot, we had scenes that represented the past, present, and (arguable) the future. When it came to the 'Past' scenes we needed to create a feeling and look that suggested that it was set in the past, so we tinted the video, desaturated it, and blackened and unfocused the edges of the frame to create this scene of the past. Going back, we were able to obtain more accurate lip sync by miming to the actual song, to do this we needed something flexible, easy to move, and accessible, so we used my HTC Desire Android phone. Compare to the 20th Century where the performer would have to perform live, you can now, more popularly uses, mime to the song, without the need to transport different equipment from place to place.

Instant feedback and digital enhancements ment that we were able to evaluate our video as time went on, in one instance we were looking through the footage (one example is in the pictures above) and found that some of it wasn't our strongest, this was due to the performers or the fact that we thought that it made our video resemble the original. For example in this image we filmed in the Bury fields next to a wind farm, because of the fields use, it resembled the field in the original, so instead we decided to film the 'artist' in a much more darker alley way surrounded by tall, used buildings.

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Once we had created our music video, we had to go about getting audience feedback for it. Therefore, we first asked people in our Media Class to tell us verbally what they thought of the video we had produced. One person in our class told us that, “It is what a well-made music video and it looked professional”. Off this feedback, we learnt that we made a right choice at the begging of the year to use our own SLR cameras, as this would give a more defined and more professional look to the music video.

Another person in our class told us that, “It is lip-synced extremely well”. From this feedback, we learnt that having Sarah and James act was a good choice because they were both extremely well at lip singing. Some parts of the Eminem’s wrapping were difficult to do so it took us a fair few attempts to synchronize them up with the song on the music video. Moreover, when Sarah was doing the first words “On the first page…” because of the speed this was going we took us many attempts to match it when she was acting. She started either singing a second too early, or milliseconds too late. Once they had gotten used to the lip singing they were both very good at it and usually pulled it off first time with no mistakes.

Once we had received all the feedback we could from our classmates, we then had to come up with another way of getting audience feedback. We discussed it with each other and finally came up with a good idea of putting our music video on Facebook. By putting it on Facebook everyone could watch it, comment what they liked, and give criticisms.

One the video was uploaded onto Facebook we all published it on our walls and asked people to comment on it.

We then started getting comments and likes of people, in these comments of people they told us what they liked and some even gave a good detailed review what was good about it.

Ryan Nelis gave us a good point by telling us that the music video we had produced felt like a real music video you would see on TV. Savanna White told us that the lip-syncing was very good. Daniel Robinson gave us some good feedback telling us; that it put across the emotions of the song well. It also presents the problem of domestic violence without showing th

e actual violence, just the emotions. Then we got good feedback off Sam Tierney say how the lip-syncing could not be faulted, and how it felt as though it was real arguments taking place. He also said how he liked how the music video was introduced, with the couple sitting on the couch doing some acting without music.

Off all feedback we learnt that the music video we had created had a very realist feel to it, and it shown the problem of domestic violence without having to show any physical abuse happening. It seemed to be that we had all positive feedback and no one wanted to give us negative feedback, so we must have done a good job on it.

Evaluation Question 2

Our music video is an illustrative music video showing a lot of face shots of the two singers as they both sung and acted. Our video is mostly acting, giving us lots of ideas for our digi-pack. For our magazine cover we used the idea of a standoff, both characters being dominant and controlling which contradicts with our original music video. In the original music video we had the male character being the abusive character. The female in the video was the weak and submissive partner. As the story progresses the roles of the characters swap and the female becomes more dominant as she starts to stand her ground and fight back.

On our album cover, we went for a light-hearted approach. We embarrassed the male protagonist by having him sat on a fallen chair with his feet in the air. We used this theme to connect and appeal with a younger audience, it will look more appealing to them and they would become interested. It highlights the dangers of drink, as he could appear to be drunk in the day (alcoholic perhaps) also highlighting the dangers of abusive relationships.

With our CD case we had bricks for the CD itself, this links in with the poster where both character are standing against a brick wall. The brick wall represents the strength in both characters, the male being the powerful and in some way evil strong personality. The female having a hidden strength that is biding its time till the emotions overflow. The colours on her clothes once the costume has changed represent this. They are standing on each side of the wall; the walls are joined by one side. This represents that they are two different people with two different personalities; they are just joined by the fact of their relationship.

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

(Unfortunately, our directors commentary didn't work out the way we wanted it to, mainly due to technical faults)

Our music video was inspired a number of videos; some R&B, some Hip-Hop/Rap videos, primarily, the inspiration came of Eminem's way of working, the fact that in most of his videos he tells you a story in some way, shows you that he is a narrator. We have duplicated this style but with a more original, but simple narrative style; using the basis of Eminem's narrative style, we intended to create a video that has a beginning and middle, but we leave the video on a cliffhanger as well as the fact that we show a mixed timeline, using both past and present. At the beginning of the video you see that the video starts with a sequence of acting, this comes from our inspiration that we found in the video, 'Stan'; in the video you see that the two main characters have a heated discussion before the video starts. Other videos that notably, have this in their videos are, 'Russian Roulette' by Rihanna, 'If I Were A Boy' by Beyonce, 'Love In This Club' by Usher, 'Run This Town' by Jay-Z just to name a few. A typical convention in Eminems videos is the dress codes that he has; as I've said before, his clothes symbolise his authority, masculinity, and seriousness. So that we didn't totally copy his dress code we added the black jacket to truly add the authority and seriousness.

Going back to the beginning of the video one other convention that relates to other videos in the R&B genre, is the idea of the males flirtatious and prowling of women; basically they generally show the males pursuit of a female companion. A video that clearly shows this is 'Forever' by Chris Brown. We wanted to stay true to this convention, because it also gives us the options that we needed to make this purely about a domestic violence relationship. To explain this, we can look into, Chris Brown's video; in the video he is pursuing a woman who is playing 'hard to get', we could easily turn this around into a domestic violence case by giving the male character a bad temper and the female showing total rejection, this allowed us to lead into the blackout and the sound of a remote being thrown and a slap to the face.

In terms of a typical music video, our video displays four out of six convention suggested by Andrew Goodwin, having already looked at this you can see that most obvious ones that we stuck to all the way was the way in which we show direct links between the lyrics and video just as we do with the music. An example of both of these can be seen when the 'artist' raps 'But when its bad, its awful. I feel so ashamed, I snapped...' this is follwed by a visual interpretation, which shows that we have stuck to the convention that shows a similar style to Eminem, in which we tell a story, giving our video a true narrative style.

Representations in Our Music Video

Our theme for our video is domestic violence, so we used many things to represent this in an acceptable way; from props, to facial expressions, to costumes and behond. These show representation through the mise-en-scene and performance given. Mise-en-scene is the placing, look and feel of the video; with this in mind an example of this in our video which shows that we represent domestic violence is the opening scene of the video. It combines the use of props, costume, facial expression, and placing. In this scene both are wearing black tops and blue jeans, this is plans clothing, and combining this with the upset or moody facial expressions show that they are both fed up; being sat on a couch and one of them holding a remote, also leads room for question. It suggests that their relationship is worthless, it is also very typical because shows the male character in a way that he always has his way and if he doesn't he becomes easily tempered, which can be seen as very stereotypical. Further into the music video we see that the female character has change of clothing, she is wearing a red top and appears, and acts more comfidently towards him, this breaks the stereotype that females are totally dominated in relationships. Also as I've said, it also a twisted representation, which is evident in the fact that she symbolises her pain but also her passion for the relationship. Also when the male character walks off screen we hear a remote get throne and a smack, but the screen is completely black, this gives evidence of domestic violence, but is also very mysterious because we cannot see whats happening; you then see her on a couch in a cuddled positon which shows her vulnerability, this creates her innocent look and makes you care for her, which again shows that males dominate.

Love The Way You Lie Analysis (Craig Davies' model of analysis)

In this post I will analyse our video in terms of the narrative style and performance aspects. Craig Davies, who is also a musician, characterised music videos as an illustration, amplification, or disjunction. Illustration being a straightforward performance/narrative video. Amplification, being the directors way of using both performance and narrative, but instead of a straightforward illustration, they use usual ideas and surreal approaches; for example, 'Praise You' by Fat Boy Slim. And disjuncture being a video that is completely abstract and has no obvious link to the music; for example Radiohead videos or even evidently Ed Sheeran - Lego House.

Looking at our music video, there is clear evidence that like Eminem's music videos, has this style of telling a story, which is telling you about lifes struggles and issues, for example ours is the case of domestic violence. What makes our video a narrative video, is that it tells the story of a couples struggling relationship, and tells you the current situation of their relatuionship and its past, splitting the video into examples of both the good and the bad times. In the video the lyrics match the video, one example can be seen in one of the fight scenes, where the lyrics read, 'But when its bad, its awfull. I feel so ashamed...'.

Love The Way You Lie (The Remix) - Music Video Analysis

Our music video falls under three main types of music in terms of genre; these are Rap, Hip-Hop, and R&B. Our video demonstrates many characteristics that support this. In terms of Rap and Hip-Hop, the ' main artist' in the music video displays some aggressive and angry gestures, body language, and facial expressions. For example, the second verse of the song, rapped by the male 'artist', you see that he displays angry facial expression and is pointing out at something, as well as looking fiercely into the camera as if he is rapping to the audience, telling them about his pain. This is done using close ups of the artist, this demonstrates that he's in your face, and the focus is on him, another video similar to this is Lil Wayne ft. Eminem - Drop the World. In terms of the three genres, the female and male 'artists' demonstrate characteristics of each through their clothing and appearance, especially through the type of colours. For example, R&B can be associated with warm, deep colours, Rap and Hip-Hop can be associated with cold colours, such as blue; and then all three of the genres can be associated with the colour black. In meaning and in terms of music, these colours express generic convention very simplistically, R&B, Hip-Hop, and Rap artists dress mostly in dark or warm clothing or the complete opposite, all of these artist tend to use the colour black; this is because the colour black symbolizes authority and/or seriousness, which is what Hip-Hop, Rap and some R&B artists tend to express in their music videos. Blue also one of the predominant colours associated with Hip-Hop, R&B and Rap, symbolizes masculinity but can also demonstrate sadness, this shows the seriousness of the artist, and tends to separate them from the style of female artist's. Some of which can be seen in the work of Eminem ('Stan' and 'Cleaning Out My Closet' especially), Drake 'Forever', Chris Brown 'Look At Me Now'; all of these artist tend to either where dark blue, in the case of Eminem, dark blue jeans; or black, in the case of all, either black suits, jackets, hats, or they even use both colours in a cinematic way to demonstrate their feelings. Another colour used by artist are warmer, more earthy colours, predominately red, yellow, brown. Red symbolizes sin, guilt, pain, passion, blood, and anger, which is a clear representation of the Rap, Hip-Hop and R&B genres in some way or another. For example, the work of Eminem (Cleaning Out My Closet and Love The Way You Lie), Rihanna (Only Girl (In The World), Man Down, and Umbrella). This links into our work through the costumes that we chose; for example at the beginning of our music video, the female and male protagonists are both dresses very similar, both are in a black t-shirt and blue jeans, both display that this is about to become very serious, and that they are serious. Further into the video we see that the male 'artist' is wearing a black jacket, white vest, and dark blue, baggy jeans, much like Eminem; this is to show the same if not more seriousness of the artist, because he is showing dominance, masculinity and seriousness through his appearance given by the addition of the black jacket to heighten the symbolism. Then we see that the female protagonist and 'artist', both wear similar costumes but convey a different meaning. The female protagonist is wearing a black and red t-shirt, and black leggings and a skirt; this is to show that she is fighting back, and she is standing up for herself, she becomes much more serious and the dominance in her begins to rise quickly. it is almost twisted because it shows her pain, but also shows her passion for their relationship, creating a double meaning.

Just like the original music video, our video had direct links between the footage and the lyrics behind the song; some are very literal. For example, when Eminem raps, a visual interpretation is given shortly afterwards, if not directly after.

Our music video also has links between the music and visuals. In terms of Rap and Hip-Hop, our video links well with the signature style that Eminem has; in his videos he creates this strong and basic narrative, this shows that he is telling a story and is giving his thoughts on real-life issues. The editing style of his videos are also reference to Hip-Hop and Rap, but they also show reference to R&B. For example, much like his videos, we have given the rapping cuts a much more quicker continuity edit, and the protagonist scenes a very filmic style of filming, this links with the style of R&B videos as the editing is slow and smooth.

Our video takes into account the demand of close ups of the artist, but like the original, we have given the priority to the domestic violence relationship in the video. This also links with the idea that Eminem's videos contain some form of narrative. In the editing of video we decided that because the amount of footage and time that was normally allowed we decided that we weren't going to use the shots of the television that we planned to use at the beginning of the music video. This if we used it would be a reference to the notion of looking.

Magazine Cover

This is our magazine cover to advertise our new CD release. We got the idea for our poster whilst filming some argument shots. One we filmed all the arguments and look back over them we noticed that at some point Sarah and James gave each other evil looks. We thought that this would be a good idea to do as it shows the anger from both couples, and with thee corner of the wall to set the scene perfectly.


This was our original draft, it was going to be in from of a wall to begin with but we changed our minds as the wall corner represents the relation, leading in different directions but meeting ( crashing) all the time.

CD Case

This is our CD case that we have made. Going round clockwise from the bottom right corner is our Front CD Cover. The theme of our CD is a light hearted theme, an attempt to bring some humour to it as our project is on the not so humorous subject of Domestic Violence. The back of the CD case (Bottom Left) was a tribute to the song "Love The Way You Lie". We had an assortment of songs that are all different versions of the original song. We again took light hearted theme to this by using the bin number and a corner of the foot. The place where the CD is held (Top Left) is also humorous by using the bricks of the wall, this contrasts into their CD where we also used bricks but in colour. Finally, we used a chair on its back for the inside cover (Top Right).

This is our original draft of the CD case, originally the CD back was going to be a full shot of the green bin in colour but when we actually took the image it didn't come out the way we wanted. so we decided to include a corner of his shoe to give the image a focal point.

Love The Way You Lie (The Remix)

Here is our Music Video, 'Love The Way You Lie (The Remix)'

It is about a couple who's relationship is torn, as things went from good to bad, and from bad to worst. We have based it on domestic violence, similar to the original music video. Differently to the original we have included both perspectives of the relationship in one music video; combining 'Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna' and 'Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie pt.2 ft. Eminem'.

Challenges of A2 Media

When we came to back to college in the New Year we were faced with A2 Media. We were first introduced to the subject and everything we would be doing in the proceeding. Once this was all done we were to split into groups and start to plan our music video. The first challenge we faced was that we had to decide upon a song that all three of us would be happy with, as we have different music tastes. We decided on Eminem and Rihanna – Love The Way You Lie.

Once this was done we had to choose on the story, actors, locations ect. This brought up a lot of debate on what we would do. This was a much bigger challenge than last year, because last year we were doing the opening of a film it was easier to choose and work out what to do unlike a song, as I said earlier the song may not be everyone’s personal preference.

Once it came to the point of filming we had to film much more shots than when we had done our film opening in AS because we had to keep the time period of the shots in time with the beat of the song, for example one clip in the Music Video would go between every sixth drum beat and could last only 3 seconds, whereas in AS a clip could last for up to two minutes. Moreover, the time scale of the videos is very different. When we had to do the opening scene in AS, we had a longer period to do it. Unlike this where we only had about two months to complete it all.

Uses of Technology during Production

In the production part of our work we chose to use the following equipment:

• 2 DSLR Cameras
• EF-S 18 - 135 mm
• EF 28mm
• 2 Tripods
• Handheld camera mount

We specifically chose to film with DSLR's because they displayed lots of advantages for us that have helped us in the filming process. One of which is the fact that DSLR's offer instant feedback and can record specifically in Full HD. Another advantage of these cameras was that they gave us more flexibility; since DSLR's offer a wide range of lens, and equipment we were able to play around with them. For example, I had an EF-S 18mm-135mm IS lens and Sarah had a 28mm lens, so we were given a lot more depth into how far and how much we could fit into a scene. The main advantage of my lens is that its main purpose is to give the user a wider perspective, this was useful as for most of our scenes we were able to fit more into them. It also had image stabilization which helped us when we decided to use handheld shots. One advantage that Sarah's lens gave us was traditional close up shots at a very close angle. This being said, when we were filming at the house we used Sarah's lens as the main so that we could get the true sense of close ups that are seen in music videos. When it came to filming the acting, alley scenes, and town scenes we went with a more wide angle, so we mostly stuck with the wider lens.
The tripods offered use one very good feature; they came with a builtin spirit level, this allowed the filming to be tidy and straight. But tripods can also be very useful in the fact that they are also ajustable; one scene that we wanted to do was shoot from a low angle to get the sense of authority in the character, but we also played with the angle; we kept the camera in a locked position while the tripod was slanted which gave us the low angle that we wanted. The quality of footage was also good because the SLR's had between them 15-18 Mega-Pixels, compared to the low pixel quality of the college cameras.

To briefly comment, we also made use of my HTC Desire, I will develop on this in Evaluation Question 4.

Photographers and Album Covers

Here I will talk to you about a few of the photographers that are involved in creating album covers; I will look at some of the photographers who created the album covers that we looked at before. i will also expand on this and look at the different aspects involved in the images themselves and help shed some light on creating such great album covers. The following photographers that I will look at are; Roberto D'Este - Rihanna Cover, G. L. Wood - Nicki Minaj Cover, and Nigel Parry - Eminem Cover.

Roberto D’Este
This album cover of Rihanna was created by D'Este and shows Rihanna in a professionally posed position, in what is most likely a basic, but professional, photography studio. As mentioned she is posed in a way that suggests she, and the photographer, are creating a flirtatious, and 'sexy' atmosphere, which is why D'Este has composed her in this way. D'Este also seems to picture his subjects at a very straight angle, treating his subjects very realistically, rather than distorting or exaggerating them. When creating this image, it is clear that D'Este has used a basic type of portrait studio lighting, called the Split Light; this is because you see that you have a strong highlighted side and a strong shadow side, hense the split light. After doing the studio work and taking the shot it seems that the photographer has then used a small number of digital enhancements, one of which is the black and white effect; the image also appears to be quite high in contrast, but this can be caused by the tonal qualities of Rihanna skin, but there is also evidence of strong shadow highlight which may be the reason for this.

Nigel Parry

This album cover produced by profession photographer Nigel Parry shows Eminem walking down the middle of a road. The cover is apart of Eminem's album 'Recovery' which features our chosen song 'Love The Way You Lie'. The concept of it can be very clever and amusing, this is because it shows a symbolic reference to the album, because it shows Eminem walking down a road, which suggests he is 'on the road to recovery'. Judging by the lighting of the image, it appears that the photographer has used natural lighting, the image also suggests that the image was taken around midday with patchy cloud cover. For example, if you look near the feet of the subject (Eminem) you can see there isn't much of a shadow, this is common when using midday, natural lighting because the Sun is approximately overhead. The image itself also has a graphic feel, this because a set of diagonal lines draw you into the photo, giving the image a sense of realism, and that it also plays around with the use of negative and positive space. This is seen in the image because you see that from the edge of the image to the middle it changes from one space to the other; the negative space, being the sky and the positve the road and then you have Eminem who draws your attention back out from the image giving it realism. This technique is key when compositioning the image so that the image is 'balance'.

G. L. Wood

This album cover is produced by professional photographer G. L. Wood; the album cover is apart of Nicki Minaj's album Pink Friday. This image taken by Wood shows Nicki in a posed image, she is seen looking away from the camera, brushing her hair behind her head, which is quite a classic modeling pose. She doesn't seem bothered nor at least concerned about, this is a technique which the majority of photographers use and it is called a rapport. This is when the photographer will create a mutual respect with the client, either by general conversaton or through context (i.e. a similarity, common interest). I think that Nicki and Wood are looking to create a flirtatious atmosphere but they are also trying to keep her looking natural, as if to say this is me. Also the image also makes use of a type of portrait studio lighting, called Loop Light, for example in this image the light box would be more to the left of the camera, you then see a loop of shadow light begin to build towards the left side of her face.

Album Research

This is the CD cover of Rihanna – Good Girls Gone Bad. The front of this CD cover features Rihanna in a dress. This album features her looking toward the camera, and it seems as though she is trying to look seductive in order to promote her album to appeal to men’s sexual drive to women.

This is the CD cover of Jason DerÜlo – Whatcha Say. This album features Jason on the front of this album; it is just again a close up of his face. This is advertising him and showing people what he looks like and who he is.

This is the CD cover of Nicki Minaj – Your Love. This album features Nicki on the front of this album looking slightly to the left. She is trying to promote that she I feeling happy or just smirking.

The Creative Process

We first got the idea for our music video by listening to the lyrics. It’s a story line for an abusive relationship, so we thought we’d match the video to the lyrics. But then we listened to the female version of the same song and we decided that the music video would look a bit better if we added the beginning verse as it would make the video more original, we agreed that the music video should focus on the female protagonist as she is the first one to sing and the actor the audience would want to see more of as they follow her struggle in life. We decided to use the stereotypical story line of a weak female standing up to the abusive partner because a lot of people can relate as that is how most abusive relationships end, they either get help or fight back, fighting back seemed the better choice to use in the music video as the lyrics don’t show her getting out, they show her getting more involved.

The outfit ideas for the female protagonist were based on the emotions vulnerable and angry. Whilst someone feels vulnerable they dress comfortable to take away any stress they can from their life, so we dresses the female protagonist in baggy simple jeans with a black tank top and little make-up. Making her look simple and difficult to read or it can be seen as her copying her partner to be like him. Whilst in the scenes where she is fighting back she is dressed in clothes that represent anger, the idea for these clothes came from my (Sarah) life, as I used to be a weak person but when I got stronger I dressed ‘louder’. So we dressed the female protagonist in a black, layered, punk mini-skirt with fishnet tights, big black boots and a white tank top. Whilst the bottom half of her outfit consist of mostly black ( showing mourning and anger of lost time) her tank top in this scene is white meaning a new start ( e.g a blank canvas). While the male protagonist clothes are the same styled outfits throughout the video showing no change in his emotions or character. We dressed him in baggy jeans ( showing his comfort in the situation) and dark t-shirts which represents his anger throughout.

To get our location ideas for our music video, we fist watch the original music video produced by Eminem and Rihanna. We decided on using Costa Coffee in a flash back as Costa is a good meeting place for new couples. Next we decided to use James' house as the prime location, as it fits the settings very well. Finally we decided to use a back alley for the choruses as it fits the lyrics very well, the grimy streets fit the anger of eminem. Then Sarah came up with the idea of filming at a beach to show how secluded her character is.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard for the first part of the music video; it consists of 18 shots and tells the story of how the couple got to where they are now. There will be standard continuity for some shots, and some montage editing for flashback shots.

Shot List

These are the shots we are going to be using in our music video; we have split them into two categories. Thee two categories are “Core Shots” and “Secondary Shots”.

Core Shots:

• Mid-Shots

• Close Up’s

• Full Shots

Secondary Shots

• Long Shots

• Extreme Long Shots

• Two Shot

• Shot-Reverse-Shot

• Panning

• Extreme Close Up

• Tracking

• Low/High Angles

This is Our Shotlist

1. Wide shot of two Protagonists Sitting on the couch.
2. Block Colour screen- Black.
   
3. Close up of Female Protagonist singing
4. Medium shot of main characters conversing over coffee
5. Close up of Female Protagonist singing
   
6. Medium shot as Main character fight
7. Medium shot of Female Protagonist singing
8. wide shot of two Protagonists sitting on a wall
9. Close up of Female Protagonist Singing.
   
10. Wide shot of Female Protagonist walking across a beach
11. Low angle close up of Female Protagonist Singing
    
12. Close up of Male Protagonist singing in ally
    
13. medium shot of male protagonist throwing mail on the floor
14. Cloe up of the male Protagonist Singing in ally
    
15. Wide shot of Male Protagonist drinking wine ( apple juice)
16. High angle shot of Male Protagonist Singing in ally
    
17. Medium shot of two Protagonist fighting at the door
18. Wide Tracking shot of two main Protagonists Walking out of the Garden
19. Medium shot of Male Protagonist singing in ally
    
20. Medium shot of Main Protagonists fighting in kitchen.
21. Close up of Female Protagonist Singing on beach
22. Close up on hands holding hands
    
23. Close up on Female Protagonist Singning on Beach
24. Close up on Hands letting go
25. Close up on Female Protagonist Singing on beach
26. Long shot of two Protagonists on stairs arguing
27. Close up on Male Protagonist Singing in ally
    
28. Medium shot of two Protagonists talking at Stairs
29. Medium shot of male protagonist singing in ally
30. Long shot of two Protagonists on stairs arguing
31. medium shot of female protagnist walking through door
32. medium shot of two protagonists arguing in kitchen
33. medium shot of male protagonist singing in ally
34. Medium shot of female portagonist singing in ally
35. long to medium shot of two protagonists fighting in garden
36. medium shot of female protagonist singing in ally
37. Close up of male Protagonist singing in ally
    
38. Medium shot of male protaonist hitting table
    
39. Close up of male protagonist singing in ally
40. medium shot of male protagonist flipping table
41. long to medium shot of two protagonists fighting in garden
42. Close up of male Protagonist singing in ally
43. medium shot of Two Protaginsts arguing in kitchen
44. Close up of Male Protagonist standing over fire
45. Wide shot of two Protagonists singing in allyway together.
    

Outfit Analysis

Outfits- Female by Sarah

At the start of the music video the female protagonist is seen as a vulnerable victim of abuse with concealing clothes and little make-up on her face. As the music video progresses her make-up ruined by her tears the first scene, a classic in most movies for a look of distress.

In this scene she is wearing jeans, a plain black tank top and a black jacket with a hood. Her hair is simply down and her make-up is very little, she also acts very insecure by playing with her fingers or clothes and not looking the male protagonist in the eyes.

- Blue Baggy Jeans

- Black tank top

- Black Jacket

- Converse

- Foundation

- Mascara

- Purple eye shadow

- Lip balm

In the Flashback to where the two protagonists first meet the female protagonist is in comfy clothes, her make-up is light but noticeable while she acts shy.

- Blue Jeans

- Black t-shirt

- Black Pullover hoody

- Low Top Converse

- Foundation

- Mascara

- Lip balm

- Eyeliner

When she realizes she won’t stand for the abuse anymore she changes her look completely, she is now showing more skin and wearing heavy make-up. Giving a look of anger and confidence. She acts very secure in these scenes by walking with her back straight and she making strong eye contact with the male protagonist.

- Punk Black skirt

- Fishnet tights

- High top canvas shoes

- White Tank top

- Red & black arm warmers

- Black choker

- Foundation

- Mascara

- Lip balm

- Eyeliner

- Black & silver Eye shadow

The female as a star will wear

- Black/Red gothic styled top

- Denim shorts

- Studded bracelets

- Leggings

- Fishnets

- New Rock Boots

- Smokey-eyed effect make-up

Outfits- Male by James

The male protagonist is an arrogant, cocky, and violent person, he isn’t rich nor is he really that poor. In this sense he looks very common, and casual, but is quite dirty in most scenes. The only exception to this is in the flashback when he dresses very smart and appears neatly composed. In ones opinion this can be seen as the deception to lure the female protagonist in.

In the flashback he will wear:

· Black Hooded Jacket

· Nike High-tops

· Black Slim fit jeans

The male as the star will wear:

· White slim fit vest

· Baggy dark blue denim jeans

· White trainers

This is a direct link to the star theory of Eminem; or his alter ego ‘Slim Shady’, to be exact.

The male protagonist will wear:

· A White Tank top

· Baggy jeans

· Trainers

· Black Hoodie