1. Lucy May – Set Fire to the
Rain (Adele original)

2. Setting and Location
DUNHAM MINE AND
LAURAS FORMBY BEACH
MASSEY
HOUSES

3. COSTUMES PROPS
Piano
Floral jumpsuit
Fire
White lace top
Feathers
Long black dress
Chair
Blue vest and black silk vest
Mirror

4. CAMERA WORK AND EDITING
Long shot of the beach juxtaposed with an extreme
close-up of me miming. We achieved this shot by
altering the opacity on the extreme close-up,
positioning the clip in the right corner, also by changing
the brightness and contrast of the clip to allow the long
shot to appear darker and the close-up to appear
fresher and brighter.
We have used a long shot to enable the setting to be seen, a pan
has been used to follow the subject (me) which shows my
movement along the sand dunes. We have used slow motion to
emphasize my emotions. Also we changed the clip to black and
white instead of using colour, which gives the effect of this being
in the past, and portrays that I am reminiscing . The brightness
and contrast has been changed to make the subject (me) stand
out more and this makes the clip more professional.
This clip is made with the use of a handheld camera, to give the effect of
the past, I am acting as if the camera is my boyfriend, which is why we
used the clip in black and white to show that the scene is in the past. The
clip is an extreme close-up to show my emotions and facial expressions
towards the audience. I suggested to the group that it should be really
slow motioned, and the group agreed.

5. In the opening sequence , we start off with a close-up ;to portray our conventions
of the genre ;of me playing the piano, then we cut to a medium shot. However you
cannot see my face, but you can see me in the reflection of the mirror, we use a
quick cut to the third shot which enables the audience to establish the setting and
location. Which is a cluttered garage, which is a connotation of what's going on in
my head – I am confused. Throughout the first scene i am revealed more and more,
we slowly revealed the artist (me) as the shots go on. Also quick cuts are constantly
used in the piano scenes. Sepia was used as Laura and I came to the decision that it
looked classier and it compliments the setting and artist (me).

6. Here we start of with a medium shot of me, so the audience can still feel the
emotion of my face and establish the surroundings (we had chosen the most
flattering shots), this is followed by a quick cut to a close-up to show all
expressions in my face, we made a slow fade out of the shot as the clip of the fire
slowly fades in, and made the opacity of the facial shot extremely opaque to
smooth the fade out. All these shots have been changed from colour to sepia as
again we decided that it looked more classier with the location (Dunham
Massey) and complimented the artist (me).

7. In this sequence the first clip is a medium shot, which has been shot in sepia. We
have used this effect as with the surrounding and the actor (me) it compliments
both images. Changing from scene to scene here we have used quick cuts. In the
second clip we have me (the artist) on the bed, another medium shot. We decided
to edit the lightness in this clip and made it darker. The third clip is a long shot and
also an establishing shot, as we see the whole location, the contrast has been
edited to make the colours more richer, also further on as we can see in clip four,
we alter the opacity gradually as I get closer to the house. I completely disappear in
the nest shot. I suggested ideas to Laura and she took all of them on, I assisted her
and gave her my opinion on what to change on the editing and techniques to add
for example the opacity. The video is very sucessful.

8. GENRE
Pop/RnB Style of song suggests
the genre Style of CD
Costume Artist cover
Mostly performance based
We used concepts of a typical Pop/ RnB genre by using mostly
performance, however snippets of conceptual elements and themes of
narratives. The storyline is fragmented throughout our music video
and shows a girl who has obviously had a break-up, and is
reminiscing about her ex-boyfriend. It shows how she grows stronger
and stronger throughout the video – she does not need a man.

9. IMAGE MANIPULATION
CD COVER
Here I have used the shadowing tool, the quick
selection tool to select the eyes and lips. To
change the colour I used the paint brush
however I changed it to the airbrush effect to
softly change the colours to pink and green. I
have used this effect on my skin to give it the
airbrush look. Also I have changed the contrast
to have the hair and background darker than my
face. I wanted the dominant contrast look, where
the background is dark, however the main parts
stand out in colour. Which I think makes the
image look extremely striking to look at. Also I
wanted to use direct mode of address as I think
it looks more powerful.

10. MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT
IMAGE
Here I have manipulated the image by
changing the whole image to black and
white, I used the quick selection tool to
select my dress, then edited the dress
using the shadow tool. I used the darkest
shadow. I clicked on the image and used
the clone stamp tool to select the lightest
colour on the image -a pale skin tone. I
used the airbrush tool to allow my skin to
look flawless and also light than the
colour of my dress. Next I used the quick
selection tool to select my hair and lips, I
changed the colour by again using the
clone stamp tool to a deep rouge red. A
very effective image.

11. Within our music video we have used one character throughout the
whole video, she is introduced straight away in the video in the piano
scene. It shows the artist (me) reminiscing in parts, flash backs where
the camera is her boyfriend - which are in black and white, and
performance for example the piano and Dunham Massey. Her character
grows stronger through the video and becomes more feisty, which is
shown in lots of clips and different editing techniques. We were going to
use a boy in this video, however he became in, so we had to improvise
and use the camera as her memories with her boyfriend.

12. 2. I have designed this as my CD cover, I
have used lots of effects to achieve
this look. This fits the genre as I think it
looks Pop/RnB, it doesn’t look like a
rock genre. It looks glamorous which
can be in elements of Pop and RnB. I
researched some of the convention in
other Pop CD covers, for example the
Lady Gaga CD covers (bottom left). As
you can see the techniques are very
similar, mainly facial images, lips and
eyes stand out dramatically.