Changes along the way!

 

On the 9th October as a group decision we changed our ideas to having just Soraya on her own instead of having a band. The difficulty we have had before now has been that we have all imagined the video in different ways because our ideas are all arty and illustration therefore we have all had different ideas to how they look.

In the lesson we decided that having Soraya on her own would be better for many reasons. One being that after filming in the drama studio for the first time, one of our ideas didn't work very well because the image didn't look as good having all three of us in the frame where as having just Soraya, the effect we wanted was a lot better and worked really well. This image was the projector on Soraya with the time lapse behind her. When all three of us stood in front of the screen/background I thought it looked odd having us all in the way of the screen so we couldn't really see the time lapse background and we also made it too busy therefore the audience would have too much to look at.

One mistake we have seen in the past from another media music video group was similar to what was about to happen to our group. They didn't seem to know who was the 'band' or 'artist'. Ours started like this because I thought it was just Soraya, Issy thought it was a band and Soraya thought it was different and thought it was going to be a bit of both. Because of this we sat down and discussed why this had happened and came to the conclusion that it would be best to change the group from a band to Soraya alone.

Because of this, things have had to change and other things may have to change along the way. For example, the album cover ideas previously were of all three of us which will  now not make sense, therefore we will have to re-create the album cover. This relates to another thing that may have to change, the photo-shoots we did were of all three of us which doesn't go with the ideas anymore therefore we have to do more of just Soraya on her own. This would be good because it means me and Issy can concentrate more on getting good shots of just Soraya. This will also help us when filming because instead of having tripods to film us we will now have both myself and Issy available to film different shots which will make the footage look so much better.

Another big change we have now made is the change of name. We decided that the name 'vision' was more suited to a group/band and that just 'Soraya' would be nice on its own as obviously Soraya being her actual name and it is quite a unique name which suits her being different from other solo female artists. This change has luckily only affected a couple of things along the way such as digi-pak adjustments for the name changing and the social media accounts but these were quite quick and easy to change in the account settings.