Ideas - Ongoing

"This song was written when I was 13 years old. It is about finding the strength to not be affected by the media and magazines that portray "beauty" as something unattainable. This is an anthem-like song to help others find and embrace their own beauty. I rerecorded it for my latest record Heartwood because to me, this is an important song. Who gets to decide beauty anyway? We are all so different and the differences are where beauty lies."

- Amanda Rogers on writing This Beauty

Stop Motion

• Taking stills from recorded video, quicker and easier, involves less planning.
• OR separate images taken slowly frame by frame.
• Flip book. Easy to film and create, keeps the stop motion as a simple element of the video rather than the key feature.

Other Ideas

• Red thread the constant theme running throughout both live action and animation. This also links to the Heartwood album artwork in which a red thread heart is held in the palm of the artists hand, meaning there is also possibility for us to mimic this shot in the video.
• Different lead roles, representing various types of beauty. Quick succession of shots at one point in the video to join these together.
• Seperate locations, such as the forest, stone walkway and magazine room used to reinforce the contrast depictions and perceptions of beauty.
• Colour changes and focus points - the artist in the magazine wallpapered room would be in black and white whilst the rooms magazines will be in full colour. As she begins to rip of the magazines and reveal black and white newspaper underneath, she gradually regains her colour. For this, I researched a little about how this would be achievable in the editing process on our Final Cut Pro software: http://www.macprovideo.com/forum/video/final-cut-pro/22318
• Taking inspiration from fashion, a dress which is designed to be covered in flowers. The flowers then fall and decay as the model walks. Whilst it may not be possible achieve, we though this said a lot about nature and beauty, the two main themes we are looking at and therefore think it would be nice to recreate it in some way.
• We also looked at a cople of locations to film, which will be looked into further at a later date. Many of these include natural locations such as forests and cloaked areas, whilst others are more secluded such as the single room covered in media imagery.