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When editing, we picked up on things that we couldn't when filming, this is good though because it helps us with improvements and with this being our first draft, that's what it's for. We picked up on things like:

· Lighting
· Shadows
· Mise-en-scene
· Camera angles
· Movement/facial expressions

When Liv is singing with no make-up on there a really big, visible shadow behind her bedcasue we only had one spotligth and it was an angle. Miss Sutton then mentioned the 3-point-lighting technique, which is where you have 3 light; one directly infront, on to the left and one to the right, this then makes sure there are no shadows.


Another thing we had comments on was Liv's make-up. Mr Smith feels that when Liv has make-up on it is too much, doesn't make sense and isn't very realistic, whereas Mr Ford as said that he likes the idea of a lot of make-up because it shows the contrast between when liv does and doesn't have maek-up on, and it smudges more when she smudges it. Vicky, one of our peers said that wehn Liv is signing without any make-up on it's obvious she has foundation on to make her skin look better, and she encouraged us to film Liv without any make-up on because it would look better, so next time we film we are going to film Liv without make-up on and off and then when uploading on the mac see which looks better.

When watching footage back we decided that Liv needs to put a bit more emotion into her face when she sings and use her eyes more effectively i.e. looking at the camera at certain points.

When the music video was editing and complete, we wacthed it back and, although the emotional make-up bits are in slow motion, it looked a bit like a continuity error because it wasn't clear that it was a different time. SO, we have the idea that we will re-film and on the make-up scenes we will have a black background and a white background for the non make-up lip syncing scenes. The black background will look more effective because the colours in the make-up will stand out more. I also thought that because the video is about Liv stripping herself bare and showing her true self to the one she loves, that the black background is symbolic of evil and the opposite of pure, whereas the white background is symbolic of purity, which Liv is when she has no make-up on.

The beginning and end we filmed didn't look very good at all when we uploaded thr footage on the macs. So me and Liv decided that at the start we would have a black screen with a title int he corner, like other music videos, saying the name of the artistk, the song and the record label. The end was just faded out which also looked effective.