Audience feedback

We sent out an email to the people in our class and also the media teachers. This is to get audience feedback to see what our music video could improve on. We decided to email people as it would be more effective because we are now in an online age.
Here is a video of some of the audiences response; we asked what they thought was strong, weak  and the concept.

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During this week we designed our website for the Coco Twins. We included things such as a Home page (with tour dates), About us page, Photo Gallery page and merchandise page. It is important that singers/artists have their own website this is because they can publicize their albums and songs, it can also be used for getting their fans involved in their online profile.

Here is the link to our website:
http://hollyvk1995.wix.com/thecocotwins

Music Video evaluation

Evaluating the music video from hollyvk

Music video shoot day

In preparation of our music video shoot the day before we set up the curtain scene. This involved using a red theatre curtain, old microphone, plain carpet, stage walls. On the day of the shoot our group was not stressed as we had everything prepared. Before shooting we had to do the costumes and prepare the girls make-up. We also had to chose the lighting which was a spotlight. I feel our concept of the glamorous lifestyle was created very well on the set and in the costumes.

In the shoot a did the playbacks of the songs, photographed some scenes and helped with the costumes and make-up. Anastasia did the directing, filming and helped with the make-up, Habeeb did some of the filming, directing and photographed a lot of the scenes. I think that the costumes and make-up that I helped with were particularly good as they fit in with the ambience of a 'Glamorous Lifestyle'. On the day of the shoot before we started filming we thought that we might run out of time at the end of the day for shooting all our scenes. But luckily we had plenty of time during the day.

I think that the sofa scene was most successful because of all the lighting we had put in created a really good effect on camera and the costumes went really well with all the bar lights. In this scene the backdrop sheet had small lights in it. In our music video we used props such as sweets which worked really well with the costumes and lighting and especially well in the photo shoot scene.

I think that the talent (twins-lip synching/acting) worked really well with the concept, the song and the stage directions. In the shoot I enjoyed most was preparing the make-up and see how each scene would look when it was being set up.  In the editing the video shoot I am most looking forward to going through each scene and putting them in different shots to match the beat of the song. I feel that our  production group worked really well as a team because we each had different jobs on the day and we helped each other with all of them.

From this shoot I have learnt to be more organised in time management which will help me in my next shoot. We also learnt to be overly prepared is best; as we had brought in a lot of props so we had a very good range of choices.

'Boring' Screen Test

This week we did a screen test of the girls. This is to see how they would look on camera. We had the girls practice their lip-syncing and dancing. We also featured Faris in this screen test. We only did a few shots. Overall I think it went well as it did not take too long and I think we are ready for the music video on monday.

Music video preparation

On Friday we went to the studio prepare for the music video on Monday and met with the set designer. This is to make sure all our set would be ready. We also checked the costumes for the girls were acceptable. Here is the photo of a sofa we are using for a performance scenes.

Advanced shooting schedule

RED CURTAIN SCENE 9:00-10:00

• long shot, only set
• TWINS, long shot, lip sync whole song
• TWINS, mid shot, lip sync whole song
• TWINS, close up, lip sync whole song
• extreme close up of Daria, lip sync
• extreme close up of Maria, lip sync

SOFA SCENE 10:10-11:00

• TWINS, long shot of the set with twins sitting on the sofa
• TWINS, close up pan of hands
• TWINS, close up pan of legs
• TWINS, mid shot, lip sync
• Daria tearing the tourist guide apart
• TWINS, zoom out on twins lip sync, medium to long shot

PHOTOSHOOT SCENE 11:20-12:30

• TWINS, mid shot, lip sync
• close up of Daria, lip sync
• extreme close up of Daria's lips + eyes
• extreme close up of Maria's lips + eyes
• close up of Maria, lip sync
• TWINS, 'cocaine' scene, mid shot, slow motion
• 'cocaine' scene, close up, slow motion, Daria
• 'cocaine' scene, close up, slow motion, Maria

BEDROOM SCENE - twins + Faris 13:30-13:55

• long shot, three people on bed, zoom out
• mid shot, three people on bed, lip sync twins, boy uninterested
• mid shot, girls push the boy back on the bed
• long shot, zoom in, girls seducing the boy

BEDROOM SCENE - TWINS 13:55-14:40

• Daria lying on the pillow, close up, mid shot, lip sync
• Maria lying on the pillow, close up, mid shot, lip sync
• TWINS, Daria and Maria, 'reflection' movements, lip sync

CROWD SURFING SCENE 14:50-15:40

• bird eye view shot, long shot, Maria lip sync
• bird eye view shot, mid shot, Maria lip sync
• bird eye view shot, close up shot, Maria lip sync
• bird eye view shot, long shot, Daria lip sync
• bird eye view shot, mid shot, Daria lip sync
• bird eye view shot, close up shot, Daria lip sync

ROAD SCENE 16:00-16:40

• TWINS, long shot, girls walking together, holding hands, interacting with each other
• TWINS, mid shot, lip sync, girls walking