Cast meeting

Today we had the meeting with the girls that we had arranged. In this we got the mobile numbers from each of them and their dress sizes so that I'm able to order their costumes. One of the girls couldn't make todays meeting (Sasha) - the ones that did turn up happen to be our main actors in our video so the fact that Sasha didn't turn up showed us that we had made the right decision in not making her the singer (in the nicest possible way) as we need to make sure that our cast are reliable. Here is a picture of Sasha (group member), Annabel (a girl underwater), Georgie (singer) and I at our meeting. 

The meeting that we had was arranged in the studio - we were able to get hold of a camera so that we could shoot some shots. We also had fans in the studio so could do some test shots seeing what the fans will look like and whether they will work. Even when the fans were on slightly it created an effect that was very girly and looked really cool. It had a mystical feel to it which is something we want in our video. Although we were unable to have the costumes with us for this test we did have the girls hair which made us able to see what the fans will look like when they are blowing up onto the girls. The longer the hair the better - which is good because Georgie (the singer) has the shortest hair out of the three and she will be the one who is least shot with the fan. (left) is a photo I took of the camera of Georgie when she was doing a lip-sync. I made it blue to give an underwatery effect. She has the fans blowing on her quite faintly but you can see that this blowing effect has made a huge impact and really makes a beautiful image. To the right is a picture of her looking into the camera singing with the fan underneath her - this time the fan was a lot closer to her face. 

Heres a picture that I took whilst the two girls were doing a shot together whilst we were experimenting with the fans. I like this picture as it shows the hair movement. Also during this test Georgies skirt was blowing up which actually shows that the material on the dress should do the same but more as it is more lightweight too. 

 We did some shots with Georgie really singing to the track, and other mouthing the words and it was very clear that the shots looked way better when she was actually singing. When the fan was lightly fanning Georgie when she was lip-syncing this created really nice shots as it showed there was a light breeze yet her hair wasn't going all over her face. Both Georgie and Annabel were really easy to work with as they had a happy attitude and were up for trying anything which is essential with our music video as it is quite experimental. Here is a picture I took of the girls dancing about going up and down - this was to see if the fans would blow their hair up even more - it worked but for a shot like this we would want to make it slow motion and this would look affective.

The camera that we used actually has a slow motion effect on it so we are planning to do another meeting - possibly tomorrow - trying this out as we think that this would look really effective with the hair going slow motion and their movements and costume. After doing this test I am actually really looking forward to shooting our real video as the cast are great and hopefully our video will look beautiful. Heres a picture I took of Georgie and Annabel looking into the camera whilst the fan was blowing up their hair gently - I tinted it blue just to give an idea of the sort of thing we want our video to look like. I love this picture as its very elegant of both of them. :)