Make up & hair tutorial

This is what we are hoping for is to recreate this look when the female character is at the battle in where she is shot. this is the sort or bun that we want be the hat/helmet will be able to fit and it look more professional.

Relation between the narrative and the song

The main importance of the song is the fact the he is going home to be reunited with his loved one. Below is a interview in where the artist is being asked questions from his fans about the music video and the how it relates and why it relate with the lyrics. 

CRWN w/ Elliott Wilson - Drake Takes Questions from Fan

(at 7 minutes Drakes starts to talk about Hold on we're going home)

We have used Prezzi to construct and present how we think our music video relates with the the lyrics.

The basic idea of our narrative came from the artist himself in a written interview where Drake the artist says that he thinks of the song as a song that can relate to a solider returning home or at a wedding.

Make up

We didn't really think about make up that much but it has come to our attention that we need to paint on the actresses face a camouflage piece on the cheek bones. For this we will need buy some face paint of, green, brown, black and a beige and then start to paint. This make up will only be used in the battle scene shots. Below are some image of the idea we want....

Any other make up that we could consider using would only for the reunion for the mother but only if she would want to wear it. For the wound of the battle we are going to use make up or paint on the clothing because she gets shot in the leg so no make up will be necessary on the face other than the camouflage paint.

Costumes -

Here are some other pictures of the costumes to be worn and what they will wear.

This would be the costume that they will be wearing on the training days and how they will have their hair.

This is the costume the "Couple" will be wearing during the montage scene at the park for the happy love scenes and the proposal.

The only costumes we will need would be for the father and daughter park scene and the daughter pjamas and of course they will be wearing when it comes to the reunion of the family at the end of the music video.

Filming TImetable

This is the time table of the days we have filmed an the days we will be filming including time that suit everyone. this timetable is mainly for the main task which our music video but is also for our Christmas video until the 13 of december when the Christmas music remake is due in.

Day of Filming	Time- Start and Finish	What
Fridays	1:20 – 3:30	Training/ Battle field at Shot over/Florence park
Saturday	11:00 – 3:30	Montage and House scenes Different locations and at my house OR the Christmas shots

How the Media Failed Women in 2013

This is a video that a friend of mine posted on Facebook and it just shows how woman have been shown and represented in the media and how technology today has helped change the image of woman on magazines or how what they say has no importance just as long as they are pretty. I think that the presentation of woman has always been bad but that today society we don't notice it that much because it has become normal for society for men to have more power in politics, economy, relationships and most important the media. The media's message to the world is that male are superior to woman and by sending this message it is causing the young woman of our generation to believe this causing more illness physically and mentally.

The Media Constructing Identity

In many ways the media can be seen to construct or make collective identities. We are surrounded by the media and in the 21st century music has become what specifically young adults or young teens are what the media mainly target because they are in a still in a developing stage in their lives making them a easier target to influence. The mediated message that is being passed on is through many different types of media such as the radio, television, magazines and social sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc website which is found on the Internet the a different source of mediation because of the individual behind the account who has the choice.

Music has always had an impact on identity, but it’s the type of person that listens to the music that depends upon how an identity is constructed. For example in the music industry the genre of the music people listen to can help construct the identity in a stereotypical way. For instance young boys may be influenced in a bad way if they were to listen to only rap in where most songs are about either sex, money, drugs or crime. This does not necessarily mean that rap is always a bad influence but it can be dependent of the audience because it helps build character. Just like the music video magazines can affect both genders. Specifically looking at Cosmo magazine just by the cover of the magazine it can speak to many viewers and influence them-selves. For example a male can be influence to think that all woman are meant to look like the cover model.  Woman can still be influenced in the same way from this types of magazines but through the eyes of a female the message would be think that they need to look like the cover model in order to live a happy life. Keeping in mind all people have freedom of will in where they chosen not to be associated with the media and turn away from the "ideal woman should look like". Laura Mulvey argues that the mediated world have made all audience to look at any woman in the media from a male perspective. Meaning that even woman are watching a movie in where the genre is Romance 

Diary Entry - Military Training

29th of November - Shot-over

We chosen to film the military training days on this day because it hadn't been raining for a while and because we had convince another friend of ours to film with us on training days. We headed of from school on Friday and arrived very tired and worn out by the steep hill on the way there. We hadn't planned it very well when it came to carrying up the equipment up the steep hill and so when we arrived we were breathless. Once we caught our breath we chose our location setting and the actresses Evelyn and Dawn got dress in their costumes. The shots we had planned to shoot were some of them running up the hill jumping over logs, running under things etc and anything else that it needed would then be thought of later.
So once we decided where we were going to shot our first shot we had the actors practise running up a steep hill one behind the other and we had to position the camera so that the we would film them running from behind and then once they reach the top of the hill have a shot of them passing the camera. Aalisha then thought she knew somewhere more adventurous within the location and so we started to follow her along the pathways in the forest. She didn't find it. After almost getting lost we decided to stay as close to the entrance of the forest as much as possible and found some great area in where we thought would look good if we had them jumping over a fallen branch and a running under a den. We chose to use a low angled shot for when the actress jumps over the logs and then a mid shot but through some leaves and thin branches for when our actress jumped over a high branch in another shot.
Because it was so cold and it would get dark at 15:30 we decided that that was enough and made our way out of the forest before it became dark.

Simply having a wonderful XMAS Time

Our final practise is a remake of a Christmas Video in where the video is based upon a narrative of family and friends at Christmas time whilst school children sing along to the song. We took the inspiration from the Christmas video Mariah Carey "All I want for Christmas is You" and the Nickleback "Rockstar".

Christmas Music Storyboard

For our Christmas theme music video we have chosen to film students singing along with the song whilst friends put up a Christmas tree. The video will consist of jump shot from the karaoke like sing along to the preparation of the Christmas tree and present underneath the tree. We hope it will be like a mixture between Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas" and Nickelback "Rockstar"

We have chosen to do a mixture of these videos and have shot mid shots of school colleagues and teachers singing along to the song whilst also having the some shot of Christmas at a house hold with friends and family. Some of the home shot could possibly be of the following;
- Decorating a Christmas tree
- Advent Calendars
- Opening present
- Making traditional food (cookie and milk)

Christmas Video - Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

As practice we will be constructing a music video for the Christmas season here is the original music video ... We want our christmas video to be heartwarming which would mean that there should be a narrative through it but because the song is very up beat and fun we thought of having children from our school to sing along to the song.

Here are some more Christmas video that we looked at for inspiration...

Sainsbury's Christmas Advert 2013- Homecoming

This is one of Sainbury's Christmas advert and it relates to both our music video that we plan our Christmas video and our Army force video because it is about a family sending out a video to there father in the army when all of a sudden he walks in through the door the children run to embrace him. The embrace can help us vision out how we plan our family reunion to go.

Lilly Allen - Hard Out Here Response (RANT)

Lily Allen single "Hard Out Here" is the most talked about song and its because it is the most controversial music video. Press such as

The Guardian say
"Created specifically to drum up controversy, engage a debate and represent the now, Hard Out Here is exactly what we wanted from a Lily Allen comeback – sorry, John Lewis."

The Mirror
"Lily Allen on her controversial video, working with Miley Cyrus and life as a mum"

Some people hate it and other respect her decision of her choice of comeback. Lily Allen has the most triumphant return to the music industry with her single "Hard out Here" she is the most talked about artist everyone is playing her song and music video and talking about it whether its bad or good she seems to be the topic in today's media. She has taken time off to be a mum of two but she has still been able to keep up to date with the media and has chosen to pull off a video that consist ideas from Blurred Lines by Robin Thick and We Cant Stop by Miley Cyrus by many different shot in her video. She mainly looks at the three issue like body image, gender inequality and most of all objectification.

The whole music video is at the same time sarcastic and making a point you can tell when she says "you not a size six and your not good looking, you better be rich or be real good at cooking, you should probably lose some weight cause we can't see your bones" clearly she is attacking the way woman are being represented in the media to be as skinny as they can be which is why she is "getting" liposuction. Look at the fact that at the beginning of the video she is on a surgery table and she says "Are we nearly done?" and her male manager says "No... honey be here for a while" then later say how "does someone let themselves get like this" when she has had two kids. Just the very introduction before any of the actual lyrics she is already showing that the media world is looked at through a male gaze as if all audience were males and any woman in the media is for pure entertainment.

The music video itself is showing how woman are being represented in the media and is a pro feminist video despite critics who say that the music video is wrong and racist because of the "all" black female dancers even though they are not all black female dancers and say that is wrong because they are wearing little clothing is not just in her video where this is happening and Lily is just picking up something that is happening in all music videos not just dancer but artist as well. When really if you think about it the critics valued the ethnicity not because of the dancing but because of the colour of the skin which I think makes the critics more racist then the video. She has the dancers dancing in black swimsuit bodies with leather coats whilst she is in fully clothed, I personally think that she is trying to be the woman who has chosen to say that she does not have to degrade her self by dancing in little clothing but has dancers in her video do so which help make a stronger impact that not all woman need to do this. If you look at Rihanna "Pour it up" music video she is also black and is representing herself as a stripper and as a male because of the way she is dressed and the way she acts. Lily Allen is not pointing out the representation of black woman but of all women, its almost the same with the fact that all black male can rap but only a few white male can she is pointing out how woman are shown in the media.

Lily Allen is taken everything she has watched in the media recently specifically in music videos like Miley Cyrus "We Can't Stop" Robin Thick "Blurred Lines" the twerking the way woman are being represented and making a truthful but sarcastic point and she even says in the song"and if you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood"

Lily is contradicting at times in her video but because it is sarcastic isn't taken seriously the video really just show how woman are shown in the media at one point it has Lily is in the kitchen washing tyre cover of a car which cars are a manly objects to be associated with but still the male manager comes out and tells her how she should look whilst she is washing the tyre covers, she is conforming with Laura Mulvey's theory that woman are know to be the tradition in the kitchen raising kids and cleaning but also her male gaze theory in the way that this video is about how the media is showing women through the eyes of a male for entertainment purposes only.

Whilst the music video along with the song lyrics has a serious message the music video shouldn't be taken so serious because she is on purpose trying to show how the music industry are showing woman to the world. She is also making a point to say that the music industry has become about sponsorship and she gives and example with the car and the beat speaker and she is making a point that the music industry should be about music and its messages and that the message has become distorted by media. This can then be back up with the auto tune used in her video because it is used so much that we think that again she is contradicting but in her recent "Somewhere only we go" song which has no auto tune its show the audience to hear that she can sing and that she is basically saying that everyone who has the right look and figure can be on music videos.

Finally the chorus "its hard out here for a bitch" when finishing the video the song title speaks for itself because the whole video and song is showing how hard it is for woman to get ahead in the music industry and what the have to do to reach that peak is degrading and only want a man wants to see which is why she calls all woman bitches because it is known as what men call woman who do wan they want.

Rough Drawings of our digipacks

To start to get an idea of what our digipak would look like we drew up some of the ideas we had in mind by researching many hip/hop album and single covers which gave us the inspiration for our own.

Most digipaks have the artist on the cover but most of the paks with the artist on are the album but when looking at the single the cover now vary and instead is something that associated with the song lyrics.

While this in mind we started to draw up the idea we have has based on the research that we had done, we did many prototypes and wrote a few lines explaining the idea of the digipak.

Idea 1
This idea is of a landscape we were thinking about the battle field but its has a bullet hole inside which fits in with the theme of war and battle.

Idea 2
This cover is of a prop that we are going to use in our music video in order to promote the artist because the dog tag relates with the army force and the one we have has a image of the artist on one and on the other has the artist name 'drake' so we thought it would be interesting to have a prop used in the music video also on the single. 

Idea 3
When researching covers we came across one of Beyonce's cover where it is her ace but in a mosaic painting way and thought it would be a good effect to have some of the fathers and mothers feature in the portrait. Below the Beyonce cover is shown for a more clearer idea of what we would hope to achieve.

Idea 4

The owl is the artist logo it is the logo of the artist record company
"Octobers very own" or "ovo" which is made of the owl face. This idea would be a great way to promote the artist and for branding.

Idea 5
This idea circle the twist in the music video in where the woman and male roles keep swapping and it shows the confusion and that both are in equal positions by having that half and half face from each character. Although the idea is simple it could help the audience get a sense of the music video.












Idea 6
The last idea we had was the pupil of an eye in a camouflage colour because it would relate with the song "I got my eyes on you" lyrics but it would also fit in with the theme of the music video by having the colour of the eye be the same as the army uniform.

Actual costume

Below is a drawing of what we though the costume would look like and next to it is the actual result we  had to buy a large shirt because of budget and the person playing the father is much bigger than the young woman who is playing our mother which is why the costume in the photograph is baggy on her, but it still looks really good.

Codes and Conventions

Codes and conventions from Roseline Idrovo

Diary Entry - Montage Filming

15th of November - House

Our first day of filming we decided to get the first part of the montage filmed which would be right at the begging of the music video to show the audience a bit of background on the history of the family and the character within. Are aim was to shoot many different shots specifically close ups that would only be no more than 2 second long which will be in the audio beat. Because it was at my house we had to re-arrange some furniture especially where we were shooting for example a shot we had planned was of a shel that had all these great momentums of the different stages of the birth of the child which is why in my room what i had on my shelf had to be changed and we placed certain objects like the teddy and baby photos album to emphasise that at this moment in the music video its about knowing that the couple have had a child below is a photo of the item on the shelf and we shot from this exact angle and panned it from one end of the shelf to the other side.

We also focused on shooting a shot of the famous picture frame that will make its appearance more than once through the music video but that is never properly seen in the video until our last shot where you will see a family moment captured. The montage is as long as the introduction is and because the tempo of the song speeds up the shot also speed up. With the montage of the the family flashing in contrast with the the solider getting ready we shot the actress getting dress putting shoes on but not ever showing the face because at the end it will reveal that it is the father getting ready. Shots like the actress going down the stairs stepping out of the front door  and down the outside stairs are toward the end of the introduction/montage scene which helps create the suspense as to which one of the parents it is.

Our Lyrics

For a more visual effect of the lyrics for our chosen song "Hold On We're Going Home" we have created a Wordle which allows the audience to view the most common lyrics and line that is a big part of the song. Providing a image presents the lyrics in a way that will make them more memorable.

We have also included the actual full set of lyrics below 

I got my eyes on you,

You're everything that I see

I want your hot love and emotion, endlessly

I can't get over you,

You left your mark on me

I want your high love and emotion, endlessly

'Cause you're a good girl and you know it

You act so different around me

'Cause you're a good girl and you know it

I know exactly who you could be

Just hold on we're going home

Just hold on we're going home

It's hard to do these things alone

Just hold on we're going home, ho oh

I got my eyes on you,

You're everything that I see

I want your hot love and emotion, endlessly

I can't get over you,

You left your mark on me

I want your high love and emotion, endlessly

'Cause you're a good girl and you know it

You act so different around me

'Cause you're a good girl and you know it

I know exactly who you could be

So just hold on we're going home (goin' home)

Just hold on we're going home (goin' home)

It's hard to do these things alone (things alone)

Just hold on we're going home (goin' home)

Ho oh (goin' home)

You're the girl

You're the one

Gave you every

Thing I love

I think there's something

Baby

I think there's something

Baby

You're the girl,

You're the one

Gave you every

Thing I love

I think there's something

Baby

I think there's something

Baby

'Cause you're a good girl and you know it

You act so different around me

'Cause you're a good girl and you know it

I know exactly who you could be

Oh just hold on we're going home (goin' home)

Just hold on we're going home (goin' home)

It's hard to do these things alone (things alone)

Just hold on we're going home (goin' home)

Ho oh (goin' home)

(Hold on, hold on)

(Hold on)

25 Word Synopsis

This is our 25 word synopsis and I have written it down but also we have made Animoto with an image and the our song choice

"A happy family strive to live their lives - as mother is in combat, father struggles to fill both roles as mother and father."

Music Video Pitch

"A happy family strive to live their lives - as the mother is in combat, the father struggles to fill both roles as mother and father"

This music pitch is to allow the audience a clue as to what the our music video will contain and what the theme is about for instance the audience will already know that the mum is in combat and that the father is playing both the roles to their daughter of 5.

What To Do First

Firstly we will make sure that we have all necessary equipment especially for the outside scene because we are going to film them scenes first.

We have ordered already our costume and are waiting for the delivery we are also waiting to film the main parts of the music video because our actress is changing her hair style and it will be a continuity error if we start no so we will be start  be have taken to account that we are able to film the montage because that footage would be from the past tense so we are able to film with these with our actress current hairstyle.

This is due to the fact of  weather conditions because it is winter we might not know if it will snow so we are planing to do all of the send off, training and battle scenes in 3 or 4 days max during the same week so that if it does snow we wont have to worry about continuity errors in the video, any re-filming can be done after.

We will then do the inside scenes which will be at a home and some parts on school site, leaving us only with the montage at the begging of the music video which some will be filmed outside but the weather is not a concern because the shots are from different time periods.

We plan to start filming mid way through November preferable on the 25th on Fridays and Saturdays these are the days we are able to film on school site and in our chosen location for the training and battle shots.

Doing our storyboard has allowed us to give a rough sketch of what it is we are hoping for in our results which allowed us to be able to start of with the outside scene that would be in the middle of the music video which is convenient in this season to start of with.

15th Nov we will film the shot of the objects such as sonogram, the back of the picture frame, the shelf with the baby's possession etc.

22nd Nov we will film the montage parts such as the engagement and the pregnancy

30th Nov is when we will hopefully be able to start filming all the and then we will filming any Fridays and Saturdays

Branding

Many music videos now days promote many brands such as sunglasses, watches, phones, clothes and the most common, especially in the Hip Hop/ Rap genre cars. When storyboarding our music video we have been thinking about promote brand in a specific relation with the artist for example we have chosen to promote the artist Drake by using Drake dog tag instead of military tags. You can see below the tag which we will be using in our music video to help promote the artist. We will have a close up of the tags during a chorus whilst the soldier is training or at battle and the shot will be showed at "just hold on we're going home" which is the song title this is because it will remind the audience that this song is sung by Drake the artist and that will be associated with the song 

We also are planning to promote sunglasses. In our music video we will be promoting ray band sunglasses which will be in the scene where the solider is getting ready at the montage.

Record labels and music video producer choose to promote brands in their videos because they are paid to promote the products by the promotional campaign of the product, for example Miley Cyrus was paid to use beats in her music video "We can't stop" below is a screen shot of the product right in the middle of the shot, the shot is about 7 seconds long, which is enough time to allow the audience see the product.

Actors and Actress

For our actors and actresses we have considered many of our previous actors in our Ride or Die replica and we have asked some of those students to be as the main characters in our music video. Last year because there was four of us in our group to make the opening to the horror film we had an actor within our group but because this year there is only two of us we have to ask friends of ours to shoot with us.

Mother
We have chosen as the role of the mother to played by Evelyn Adjattor who played Misha B in the Ride or Die replica because when we got feedback we got a lot o good positive comments on this particular student

Father
For the father we have chosen a friend of Evelyn  his name is Jerone we have only meet him a couple of times but we think that he will be able to complete the the family perfect and it is also very useful because he is involved in the club Cadets in where it is an mary based training for teens and so he will be able to give us a good perceptive on what kind of training would go on in the a military training, he also has a military costume and because him and Evelyn do not share the same size this is convenient because it would mean only buying a costume for the role of the mother.

Daughter
For our daughter we have chosen Evelyn's little 5 year old sister Marmalade to play the cute daughter we choose her because she is a relative which would mean that she would look similar to her sister. I think that 5 is a good age because we would be able to communicate with her and because it would be her sister she will feel much more comfortable therefore make the scene look more like a family.

As an extra we also have many other that would be interested in playing a role of for example another soldier or a friend of the family.

Costume & Props

Props
We have always payed a lot of attention to detail when producing our task so for this music video we knew that there would be a lot of little things that we will need to buy or create. The main concern with our narrative music video would be the props such as the weapons and army gear.
After researching the weapons that are most likely used in battle we have purchased a children's military set.

This set is for a child to play with so of course it is safe for our task in the set purchased it includes the following
- Handgun
- Gun holder
- Military gun
- Knife
- Walkie talkie
- Grenade
- Helmets
- Compass
- Battle mask
- Dog tags

We don't know whether or not we are going to leave the props as they are but instead we might spray paint the guns black to make them look more believable but if we do we would only spray paint the military gun because that has the camouflage and the orange nozzle that make a gun sound. We are also thinking of using real dog tags

Some other props that we where thinking off where some small but important to the music video we thought of the following
- Pocket knife
- Stich on patterns
- Hat (Green)

Any other props that will be involved would be when setting the scene for example the baby photos, teddies, bottle etc. will be set up and displayed as there would be in the music video

Deconstruction Videos

7 Days - Craig David 

1. 

In this shot you can see the artist in this case Craig David singing about what happened to him. The song is a narrative about how he meet a woman that he liked. This shot is a close up of the artist Craig and is there to allow the audience to know that he is telling the story that he is telling the story whilst he is trying to get a hair cut which suggest that the artist like to look well for a date and that he wants to tell a barber how he conquered a date with the female protagonist. The music video is a narrative so the fact the artist is playing the role of the male protagonist is common which would explain his costumes because it needs to seem as real as possible. This would be done by lip syncing to the song and the narrative.

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A close up of his watch allows the audience to view that he is wealthy and that he cares about his appearance in the video and that he wants to show that to everyone.  The video consist of short close up shot like this one but it also consist of longer medium shot to allow he viewer to see the scenery and the understand the concept of the story. The story flashback a lot to how he meet the girl and how he's date went to a shot of him telling the barber the story, this is because the director wants the to create the perfect more realistic love story but have a change in where the male protagonist has to keep trying. 

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The women in this shot is presented as the prize to be won in the video, this is because the song is about how he conquered the date with this specific women. The woman in this video is shown as the most beautiful woman to him and that influences other to think the same way therefore act the same way. Like the previous shot this shot is an extreme close up of her red lips. This shot is a close up so that the audience can specific see the detail of her beauty and by having close up of her lips, her eyes it allows the audience to paint an image of what a perfect woman should be. In the whole music video the woman face is not int the shot without her wearing glasses or it being a 3 second shot the normally just have a shot of her body or part of her body depending on the shot. This technique keeps the music video interesting because there is so much to look at and the more you watch the more you start to believe the story.

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This is an example of the shot that I tried to explain previously based on the fact that the woman is looked upon as a prize in the video in this shot you can see only the women lower part of her face because it was tilted from her chest to her skin around her neck. You can tell that it was the focused because everything in this shot has been pulled out of focused for example the wine, the objects behind the woman are not as clear as the objectives in this specific shot.

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This shot is toward the end and is of the couple after there date and you finally have a view of the woman's face. It is a mid shot for the audience to see the couple and there body language, in the shot you can see both the protagonist the female and the male in an embrace which is the happy ending to the "perfect love story" a happy couple. The male in this case also the artist has won the "prize"and is wearing a vest the woman in this shot is wearing a baggy shirt which appears to be his shirt. They both seem happy which implants on the audience mind what happiness is.

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Burn - Usher 

2.

This is along shot and with most of the song in the world not just to this genre is about love, sex or money and for this song it is about love the opening shot is a long to show his obsession because the painting or photography of the woman above the artist is whom the song is about but you cant tell straight away from this shot. The shot is zooming out from close ups of the artist face and from a shot of the woman and at this point the shot cuts from this to another close up of the artist in this case also the male protagonist and he introduces the song "Let it Burn". The mis en scene in this shot is very empty and is practically just a big room with the artist sat down and the image of the woman. This is done to make a point to the audience to already let them know that the music video is about love and that it is about these two people is specific.

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This is a typical shot of a artist look regretful or hurt and the fact that the artist is wearing glasses creates a emotion that the audience can relate to. The shot is a close up of the male looking through the window doors and singing about the the love he has lost. The fact that the music video is showing the male protagonist in a sad and gloomy aspect shows us as the audience that he is reminiscing about someone. 

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This is a long shot of a woman walking along a outdoor pool. As you can see the filter is darker and this can show the audience feel like she is also in a so depressing place but the fact that her skin colour contrast so much the gloomy filter suggests that she is not really there. The woman is wearing only black bikin with high heels this could be done to show that woman as beautiful and as confident with herself. 

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This is a close up of a car and is a close up of the car for branding. But the effect of the filter is still being continued throughout the video and does not change for the car shot. The shot can also be to show the "moving on" of the character or an "escape" from previous situations that have happened to him. 

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This last shot is a powerful statement and shot for the music video. In the long shot we can see the artist who is the protagonist through the video and the fact that the camera angle is tilted up wards shows us that he is being shown as superior which can send a message to the audience that he is non longer going to be heartbroken and is choosing to move on. In the shot the artist is wearing dark blue jeans with white trainers along with a white almost grey shirt and a leather jacket along with a baseball cap. He is wearing a casual assemble to show that is what he is trying to be, causal. The setting of the shot is in the street  along side palm tree which contrast the fact that the filter is so gloomy if its meant to be a sunny destination.

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Take Care - Drake ft. Rihanna 

3.

The music video to take care is abnormal to other video i have looked at but it has the same shots and the same concept even though it does not have a narrative in the video. This medium shot is of the artist and as you can see he starts off by facing away from the camera this could be to make his introduction more dramatic which could also explain the black and white filter. The artist in this video is wearing a black T shirt and black trouser because there would be no use of coloured clothing in a black and white music video and I think that the black clothing can indicate that the song is serious and that it is about mourning about something that has been dealt with.

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This shot is a close up and is of the horns of a bull I don' know why it is sufficient to the music video but it is shown a lot in the video. The shot of the horns of a bull can although express how time has passed by slowly because the song is at a slow peak during the video. In this shot you can see that the camera is good quality and that the filter increase the density of the shot and the shadows and the detail of the feature are more defined.

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This is the artist that also partake in the video and sing the chorus she also start facing away from the camera but all of her shot seem to either zoom in or out from her in the centre of the shot. The artist is wearing a over sized jumper that falls off her shoulder in a seductive way. Her hair is causally out and hide her face allow to see only her eye and her nose because her shoulder hides away her mouth. This shot makes the artist feel vulnerable and innocent almost as she had been hurt.

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This is a mid shot of  both the artist in the centre of the screen in a embrace you can tell more clearly that her clothing is very minimum which can show that is still in that vulnerable place and that the male artist is either taking advantage or is caring for her. The fact that she has her head resting on her shoulder can mean friendship. There is no mis en scene in this music video and I think that only increase the seriousness of the music video and can allow the audience to concentrate on the music video and the lyrics of the song.     

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The last shot is also a mid shot an again is of an animal in this case of a blue j and is again there to show the attention of detail that they have created in the video I think that the animal were just to keep the audience focusing on the lyrics  and to bring out the emotion and effect as much as possible out of the filter added in the music video. 

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Knock You Down 

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In this music video there are three artist this shot is a mid shot and you can see one of them in a setting that is meant to look like a studio with the white drape and the white walls and celling which really helps contrast the artist and his look. In this shot the artist is wearing a leather coat and a red jumper sort underneath with sunglasses, this could give an impression that he is a strong type of man and that he doesn't show emotion hence the shades indoors. In a music video the artist with the shade is normally associated as the rapper so that could also be suggested in this shot. The artist body language looks like his is trying to defend himself because his arm is across his body in order to protect himself from harm. The lighting in the scene is very bright with the sunshine shining through the window and the lights being on.

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This is a close up of the artist and she is singing in this shot so this music video is both narrative and non narrative because it has a story but there are also shots in where singing is only involved like this shot for example 

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