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Disclosure ft Sam Smith - Omen is our final song choice which we will be using to make our music video. In this video there is no narrative as you are mainly focused on the tattoo artist lady and Sam Smith , it also stays in one location where you see Sam Smith most of the time. Our video will defer from this as we have more locations shots meaning in our video you will see our artist in more than one place other than one place because in the original video you only see Sam Smith in one place. We also have a studio shot where there is a white background and you don't see that in the original because they also have people in the background or lights. However , from the original video we was influenced a bit from the beginning as you get a extreme wide shot of the location and from seeing that gave us a good idea that we should try and include that shot ourself but with a more central location with bright lights and an interesting background. Another thing that we are making different is that Sam Smith doesn't look directly at the camera where in our music video we are making the main artist look at the camera which we found out that , that was in Andrew Goodwins theory.

This is a screen shot of one of our studios shots where you can see that the main artist is looking directly at the camera and when watching the original video you don't see this throughout the video. The lighting is also brighter than the main video , even though there are many lights in the main video the whole setting scene is quite dark , whereas we have quite a brighter setting.

From our screen shot and the original video screen shot you cans see the difference straight away and that is the look we are going for as we want our artist to look straight at the camera as we feel it gets the audience more involved and attached and because it is quite an emotional song we want the audience to see the emotion in the artist face fall on other than just from the side as you can we can only see half of the emotion in Sam Smiths screenshot.

Blogging Health Check 2 - Daniel

Blogging Health Check 2

"A vast improvement on HC1 Daniel.  You've been back over some of the early posts and have completed the research tasks to a good standard.  Still missing posts 11 and 13, which are important and will need to be completed to get this grade higher.
Much of the pitch is completed, but there are still some individual elements of the planning that are missing:
1. Post blogs 18, 1924 and 37
2. Post either a shot-list or draft storyboard - at the moment your group only has a completed final storyboard.  Without the draft version you aren't showing development of ideas, which carries quite a lot of marks.
3. Post the copyright clearance letter - I can't find that on the blog. If it's there and is hidden can you make it more obvious?
4. Make sure that you keep up the current level of momentum and don't let things slip and slide again.
Definitely room for further improvement and this would result in an even higher grade."

I also believe I have made progress from my previous health check but I am aware there is still significant space for improvement. I will do the blogs I am missing and also improve on existing ones. The copyright clearance has been done by Seun and is now on the blog.

First day of filming

The first day we filmed was on Wednesday during the half term where we filmed in room 333 which has the green screen and studio. We shot the whole song through about 6 or 7 times to ensure we captured enough usable footage. We also shot specific shots that we thought would be good to use in our video and go well with the beat of the song. For example where the beat of the song comes in at the chorus we directed Daniel to open his eyes right on that beat, which we thought would be an effective shot. 

32. Reflection on blogging health check 2

I think that I have improved on my blog, although not majorly but there is some improvement as I did go from a grade D to a grade C. There are still some blogs that I have yet to published, which effected my grade as all my blogs weren't on the blog to be marked. I also need to continue working on getting on top of my blogs and doing them as they are set. Another area in where In where I could improve would be to make sure that my blogs are fully detailed and well presented. I think that some my blogs are very minimal and so I just need to make sure that I spend a good amount of time on each blog. 

Feedback health block check 2

This is my second blogging check and from my previous one I have gone up a grade, I feel I did much better blog posts and done the right amount of mosts for the deadline, however I would like to achieve higher grade for my next blog check so I am going to carry on doing what I am doing but putting more detail. I also need to make sure I do more individual posts.

Prepared to my as blogging heath check as I progressed I would be getting higher grades , so im going to continue and hopefully by the neck check I will be on grade B

Request For Copyright Clearance

We have sent an email to Universal Music Group, the label with copyright of our chosen song, requesting a copyright clearance from them.

And in the letter, it reads: