Filming and Editing

We've now completed many of our scenes and have started editing them all. 
These have been taking from our first filming session, Amy and Emma filmed in their own rooms for a bedroom setting, one room was used for the Antagonist and the other for the Protagonist. 


They focused on the lines:


"I'm just another thing for you to roll your eyes at honey,
You might have him but haven't you heard
...
Do you still feel like you know what you're doing"


To show the the aggression and spitefulness of the antagonist we planned for Amy ( the antagonist) to do certain action to symbolize this.  We encoded various things in our text. for example Amy throwing her teddy bear, or grimacing at a phone call before then fake smiling as our preferred reading of this would be for the audience to recognize that she has quite an evil spiteful side to her, how ever we do understand what a theorist Roland Barthos said " The death of the author" which was referencing to the fact the author does not control the meaning of the text as its up to the audiences reading of it. We also used a typical music convention here by matching the lyrics to the visual, for example on the word "roll" is when the teddy bear will be rolling off the bed. Also Amy answers the phone to "Havn't you heard", Amy and Emma were very accurate with this because during the filming they changed the caller ID to the name Guy, which is the male characters name in the narrative. 

The antagonist was filmed walking down the stairs and walking out the front door. To do this we used an over the shoulder tracking shot that followed her down the stairs. Doing over the shoulder shots in this scene is good because its reflects the story of the video, it gives a sense of the antagonist being stalked and watched 
which she is because the protagonist is preparing for her revenge. We also used a tracking shot as this is common convention in music videos because its reflects the songs momentum.

 During the editing process we speeded this up, giving a really jolty messy effect which is a common use in our video as the narrative focuses on revenge and this gives an atmosphere of a psychotic nature. This is a theme we try to convey in the video because its easily connoted with anger witch is a mood we're trying to convey  . We did this to fit in time with the music and to speed up the narrative, todays audience are used to receiving information fast.