P.J HARVEY:
As part of my exploration in the inauguration, I came across P.J Harvey and her music. I observed her videos and found that she dressed very feminine wearing floral patters, red satin dresses and leopard print which most express sexual desire. However, her music and the lyrics were very masculine and harsh which contradicted her image. Also, her video's are very busy but simple but more performance based rather than narrative based. She involves lots of movement and lip sinking as well as only involving one setting for the video. They all feature just her in one room where as other artists video's include various places to convey their narrative or message. Our video shows a mixture of performance and narrative based work as we show the story of the characters through the music. We tried to incorporate as many shots and angles as possible, especially close ups to convey facial expressions. We used extreme close ups for 'the eye' shots which linked with the lyrics 'girl with one eye' and the shot showed the eye open suddenly which added edge to the video. The representation of the video shows the stereotypical female- weak and powerless, but also challenges the stereotype by showing the other protagonist to be the one holding the power and authority. P.J HARVEY
Photoshop:
Using P hotoshop showed how we developed media conventions and created our successful digi -pack for our video. We were able to edit and adjust our images from the first photo-shoot to eventually incorporate them into our digi -pack and create the ambience we hoped for. Photoshop