Test Shots

For out music video planning we had to select a few actors to lip sync and also act within the narrative to the video. To make sure that the people we had selected would fit our genre and music video theme we took test shots to see how everyone would react in front of the camera. This showed us if  people were shy or confident in front of the camera and overall if they fitted the image and personality we were looking for within our fifth harmony music video, by doing test shots it's helped

us pick out who we'd include within the video.  

Tia was the first person we chose to take test shots off,  on camera Tia Dyos comes across to be very energetic and obtain a bubbly personality. However of camera she has a very shy and quite to her personality, her dark long hair and casual clothing fits our genre of music and target audience. The photograph of her laughing shows she doesn't take herself too seriously and doesn't mind having fun in front of the camera if we was to use her with lip  syncing.  Tia is also doing media studies and would therefore understand how perfect the video needs to be, she would therefore take into consideration the amount of time which is needed to spend filing different shots and traveling to a variety of locations , she's someone who wouldn't get easily frustrated if we needed to-do a couple more shots just in case we didn't capture the correct lighting or camera angle.  However  i feel Tia being a shy character it could take a while for her to gain confidence and start appearing naturally to lip syncing, also we have to take into consideration she will also be doing her music video along side and could therefore be restricted to what days and times she could film which would therefore effect our filming. Although Tia does fits our characters image and parts of her characters I feel like we would be stronger going for someone either within the group or one of the other potential actors who isn't taking media studies and therefore has a lot of filming time.

Tasha is another potential actress we have decided to test shot, to see if her confident and humours side come out on camera. She's a very outgoing person and is someone who wouldn't take herself too seriously, as a fan of Fifth Harmony she knows the song lyrics to all of their songs, this puts us at an advantage because there wouldn't be any confusion in what lyrics she wold have to sing because she  would naturally know them. Also because she would've watch their  music videos she would understand how they act and behave in their music videos, which also having some clue on the way they dress and their overall public image. Another positive thing about using Tasha would be that we are close individuals which would make it easier when planning to meet up, also because we are friends she would feel comfortable having to lip sync in front of us and wouldn't come across as awkward if she sung a word wrong . Due to Tasha being a very supportive friend I feel she would understand the importance of her showing up to film, although she plays football we would take into consideration that perhaps weekends wouldn't work best for her and therefore we would need to use weekdays to get filming done.

Overall Tasha would be a great member to have as an actress within our music video, by her living so local traveling to meet up with her wouldn't be an issue. Her energetic personality defiantly shines through and is caught on camera, she appears very confident and is someone who we wouldn't have to keep reminding about meeting up to film because she is an extremely organised person.

Our third actress is myself (Megan) I would present myself as very a confident person when it came to recording and photographing, although I do take a few minutes to get used to the fact I'm being filmed, once in the zone I can be a right laugh to be on set with. I enjoy listening to bands such as little mx and fifth harmony , making me a form lover of girl bands, I feel like I defiantly relate to the girls in fifth harmony because I love to keep up with the latest fashion trends, and make up looks. I would class myself as someone who doesn't take herself very seriously for example me dapping in the photograph is perhaps something y see everyday. I would class myself as a party girl, I love going to house parties and dancing to a variety of pop based genre songs. I'm defiantly confident when it comes to wearing tight fitted mid-length and short dresses which  is something that links back to the type of clothing that the band wears within there music video ' write on me'. I although I have blonde hair compared to other people such as Tasha, Tia and Morgan I feel like this shows we all have different looks and personalities. Although I am very tall compared to all the other members I feel like this just shows again that we are very different people but shows as a group we would have different appearances and styles making us individuals instead of the same person. Due to me being a member of the group I would defiantly make sure I was available for filming, and  understand that being involved would be very time consuming. Although I have a part time job and play netball one day a week I will have to manage my time and make sure I left time for filming.

Our final test shots where taken of Elena who is also apart of our media group, her clothing style is very basic, she normal is known for wearing dark colours much like Tia. Elena is a shy and very easily embarrassed, when it comes to photographing her she comes across very unnatural and struggles to gain confidence in herself within the shoot. Which isn't a problem because within our group we haven't yet distributed the roles out , due to us having to decided who would star in the music video to begin with. This means when we choose roles we wouldn't put Elena in front of the camera, as she perhaps would feel best confinable and would prefer being the director and doing parts of the filming. Her love for art is a key asset we have to the music video , she would be able to think of creative ideas which we could use to make our video appear more pop related and eye-catching. Elena isa focused and very motivated student who would always make sure deadlines were met and work was done to her best ability. This means if she was placed behind the camera or as a director she would be very bossy in a way were she would make sure nobody would mess around on set and that the music video was made and edited to the best grade possible.

Overall we chose to use Tahsa , morgan and myself (megan) as we felt us three matched the type of style and personality we was looking for to represent the music video. Due to us three being quite close friends we thought we would feel conftourable lipsyncing infront of eachother and that it wouldnt be too awkward once we got into it.