Planning the Representation

REPRESENTATION OF GENRE

  1.  Folk music generally represents our culture both modern and heritage we show both sides in our music video we have shown old heritage in buildings and shrines and modern hopes and emotions that a female can live happily without a man.
  2. Since the music is supposed to be energetic, little nostalgic but filled with passion  we do follow the connotations of the genre illustrating the visuals to the lyrics and sound

GENDER REPRESENTATION

  1. We plan to show the female actress in a white dress (Shalwar Kameez) as white is a symbol of purity moreover this way, we will show the transformation of the main character through the clothes/Props she wears during and at the end of the music video.
  2. The Male singer will be shown in a Black Shalwar Kameez (Binary Opposite).
  3. While representing genders, the female is shown very feminine with closeups of her expressions and features whereas the male isn’t a big part of the narrative he’s just shown as a well-wisher and a singer performing (singing) the song

ARTIST REPRESENTATION

  1. In terms of lighting, the camera angles and lighting work together to illustrate the narrative of the music video. Representation of folk in music videos is done by giving a lot of colorful lighting as well as shades of browns and rust to give a rough strong meaning to the character.

CULTURE REPRESENTATION

While showing the shrines and people around in the characters surrounding, a feeling of culture can be felt although not many visit shrines for wishes or prayers but a minority does in our culture

The clothes our characters wear as well as the people around also represent our culture.

 

Budget List

Here is a cute little image Leena created for our budget list

Anyways the budget is divided carefully and calculated evenly all over mostly we all had different props and equipment at home, I had basic camera necessities, where as Leena had all the artistic antique decorations and maria had the clothes and the wooden box. The snacks costed us more as we are supposed to wakeup at 7 rush with our items gather at one friends house and leave together so we all preferred eating out as well as buy water bottles. Moreover Old lahore is extremely far from our homes and as we have a schedule of 4 days it surely takes alot of petrol, further more a book including lock and keys were bought by maria.

budget-list

Softwares

We will be using Adobe Photoshop as we’re quite familiar with its usage also since, we need to make the digipak for the music promotion package and edit the photo shoot . For video editing, we’ll be using Adobe Premiere Pro and since our video requires graphics and scribbling, we’ll use Adobe After Effects and maybe  Vegas Pro 

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Equipment

Camera Body Used: – For the main shoot of the music video we will be using my Canon EOS 750D and leenas Canon EOS 70D and for the Behind The Scenes footage we will be using Maria’s Iphone X mainly as well as our own phones.

Lens: For Camera Lens we will be using a Canon Kit lens 18-55mm , a Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-135mm and a 50mm for  portrait photo shoot for the album.

other than that a reflector, a ring light  and an extension wire.