Location one - Wimbledon Common

For our fist location we have chosen Wimbledon Common in Wimbledon Village. It is a local park that is vast in size and harbors a variety of beautiful trees and wildlife. The deeper you go into the forest the more magical the surroundings look. Wimbledon common is often used for horse riding lesson so it is more than likely that we will see horses around while we are filming, could we incorporate this into our final piece? Furthermore, people walk dogs all the time there are foxes and even deer have been known to live in it. We will be commencing filming at Wimbledon Common tomorrow for our outside shots. Tomorrows weather forecast was set to be mild for December, around 5 degrees which will be good to film in. It wont be raining at all tomorrow and their will be constant clouds so no chance of change in lighting while filming. All in all tomorrow is set to be a good first day of filming!

Costume plan

For the costumes ideas my group and I have been looking at our initial themes and ideas to generate ideas. Words such as ‘wool’, ‘warm tones’, ‘autumn’ and ‘earthy’ have inspired the costumes that we will use. Here are a few images that are similar to the items that we will be using such as the winter duffle coat.

Contacting Sarah Blasko

We have attempted to contact Sarah Blasko in order to get her permission to use her song for our music video. Here is the evidence that we have attempted this. We used the social networking site Twitter to message her and we will also be using Facebook and other networking sites to do the same thing. While using Twitter we faced some difficulty with composing a message. Unlike Facebook you have a limit to how many characters you use, so we have to make 3 different messages to compose a decent length message for her.

Stars persona influence

Our stars image for your music video has been inspired and influenced from a range of British pop folk artists. Predominantly from the likes of Laura Marling, the runner up for the song choice, her soft earthy look is similar to what I believe we want to produce for our singer. Laura wears little make up and when she does its natural looking and elegantly applied. Additionally, we have looked at Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine as another person to take influence from. Unlike Laura’s simple and minimalistic look; Florence incorporates a vaster range of colours and a wider range of textures to her image. Despite their differences we have used these two because they both have the authentic ‘British look’ (maybe because they are British…), and they both embody the stars image that we will strive to achieve. In the case of Florence we will take her glamorous looks however tone them down to make them more subtle and approachable. 

Other than artist I have looked at Audrey Hepburn as a style influencer. Her prim, feminine image, predominantly her eye makeup and iconic eyebrows could be incorporated into our stars makeup, possible statement eyeliner such as Audrey’s. 

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Lyrics Analysis

We Won't Run - Sarah Blasko

Pages turning,

lights are burning,

see what you could not see.

As plain as the day,

the night makes you pay,

for what was hidden underneath.

Longing to leave,

but begging to feel,

that something will make you stay.

You gotta believe,

that this all leads,

to somewhere we've never been.

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more,

in denial.

But I always thought,

you knew yourself,

better than anyone.

But the season was lost,

when you started listening,

to everyone else.

Cast in this devil,

I've got the metal,

the means to make things right.

Tired of guilt,

tired of being sorry,

haven't we suffered enough?

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far, x2

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

But oh,

that our eyes, x4

will be open.

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

We won't fear,

we can fight,

all that we can bring to light.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

We won't run,

we can fight,

all that keeps us up at night.

There is far,

to go now,

let's not waste a minute more.

Of our lives,

our lives, x2

our lives.

My Stanza anaysis 

• Saying that you’re learning something new and gaining knowledge

• Wanting to move on but too scared to actually make the leap of faith. You want to be held back by something so you don’t have to make that choice.

• Facing your demons and overcoming something in the past so to not leave it to fester. Accepting reality

• I thought you were different but clearly you’re not. As times gone past you’ve lost what I liked in you. You’ve followed the crowd

• I tired of feeling like it’s my fault. I will overcome this

• I can see clearly now

In a nutshell the song tells a story about someone who was in a relationship where her partner made her feel guilty about something/ something happened in the past that wasn’t resolved. Now after time she realises it was her fault and is fed up of putting up with his grief. She’s ready to face reality because she can see what type of person he really is and wants to move on, however he is not. She wants to feel happy again, and to do so she leaves him behind despite her reluctance to forget the past.

Moodboard

This is moodboard that I created from our group brainstorm of ideas and key words. I'e added some more that I believe would work well such as 'masks', 'dancing' and 'little red riding hood'. We will be updating our ideas as we continue to plan for ideas.