Research for the fighting

After some comments regarding whether the fighting will be believable or not I decided to do some research into how other media group in the past have made violent scenes look realistic using the same equipment that available to us. This one group in particular hand several shots of the couple fighting that didn't look too staged so maybe we could take some notes from their video. 

Audience Feedback for Storyboards

After finishing our storyboards we decided to explain our idea to a few people and see what they thought:

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Selecting a name for our artist was difficult because we all had different preferences when it came to the meaning of the name and finding something that fit our Pop genre. 

In the end we each put forward a name and then asked members of our class for their favourite from the list, the results above show the winner - the clear favourite was Inka which fits the pop theme perfectly as its catchy, memorable and a single syllable. This is the name that we will be using for the contents of our Digi pack.  

Development on Name

I feel like this would be a perfect name for our artist as its short, catchy and it has significance behind it. As our music video is about recovering from abusive relationships, it could be seen as a reassurance to our target market of teens that they do not have to accept domestic violence and there is a way out. Hope embodies the expectation of things to get better and it is also a reminder to people that they are not alone. If Hope was the name of our artist then it will make it clear from a glance what she stands for, and it is also an unusual name that would provoke curiosity in people. 

Generating an Artist Name

We started with a name game to get our creative juices flowing, first, we wrote a random verb at the top of the sheet then we folded it over to conceal what we've written before passing it onto the person next to us and so on:

1. Random verb
2. Random noun
3. adjective
4. verb
5. noun
6. noun

Then we used the combination of the words that we got to think of names we could use, here is what we came up with:
'the funky eye'  'giant fingernails'   'fire and ice'
'the giant eye'   ' working fire'  etc.

All the names we generated seemed to be to be really quirky and weird, which is not exactly the kind of name we were looking for. We looked at other artists in the pop genre to analyse the conventions in the names for the artists: 

From this observations we noticed that most of the artists in the genre either use their name as their stage name or they create a single memorable name that acts as a hook, for example Beyonce and Drake. In line with this discovery we though that we would conform to the conventions of the genre and think of a name that was both a singular and memorable. Using a name was out of question because we thought that the excess syllables would be too much of a mouthful for audiences, like Lianne La Haves or Jorja Smith instead we want something simple with preferably one syllable. 

Complete Storyboards

The crown = The main singer     Dress = Girlfriend     No dress = Boyfriend

Location 1: The Girl's Room, where she will be sitting on the sie of the bed sobbing. The singer will be in the room as well but she will not be acknowledged by the girl, like an omniscient narrator. We will introduce snippets of the relationship through pictures and memorabilia from the relationship.

Location 2: The Street, the singer will walk onto the street then the camera will pan to the other side of the road where the couple are arguing and fighting. 

Location 3: The Store (B&Q), the couple are arguing in the store. The singer will be walking down an adjacent isle then the camera will focus on the couple through a gap in the shelves as the singer continues walking. The couple have a big fight and walk off in opposite directions. 

Location 4: The Park (Hilly Fields), first the focus will be on the singer on the bandstand then we will show the male protagonist waling his dog accross the field. He takes out his phone and then there is an eye-line match to a picture of his ex which makes him a little sad, then he puts his phone away and brushes it off. 

Location 5: The Boys bedroom, he just got back in from his walk, he starts getting changed when the camera moves to his back to reveal lots of bruises! 

Then will make a montage of him having fun with his friends in parks, arcades and just around town to show his recovery. Then he goes to 'The Shop' and sees his ex, they walk past each other - he is content and stable but she is still upset.