Filming Day Three

So today I was sat editing in the media room when I saw that I had quite a lot of gaps in my video that needed filling. I watched a couple existing media products and saw that it was common for the artist to be seen singing to the camera in front of a colored background. I chose two different backgrounds as shown. I chose the red because red imagery connotes blood and danger in media texts which relates to the theme of decay in my video.

A very common convention of music videos in the electropop genre is the use of shape symbolism. I did not use the exact image shown because I could not find the one I used but this was very similar. 

Collage Research

This is a picture of the collage I made for my music video. I wanted to use the collage to portray the female characters confused mindset. I included pictures of Barbie and magazine covers to show her self-esteem issues in relation to the lyric "aint youth meant to be beautiful?" and to challenge societies pressure to be perfect. I made sure to use lots of pictures focused on the human body - from a skeleton to Vesalius' diagram of the human anatomy. I did this to really accentuate the theme of decay and death. I also included some war imagery and references to suicide to show her confusion.