Amy Hall Y13 A2 Advanced Portfolio

Today we gained a new group member! Eleanor Watson-Green claims to bring excellent filming skills along with a fresh perspective on our original ideas; she has reviewed our pitch ideas and we will include her in our pitch video later on. Me and Jess are looking forward to working with someone new who is full of enthusiasm and creativity.

Below is a textual analysis of Taylor Swift's new video 'Look What You Made Me Do'. To complete this analysis I used my knowledge on camera shots, angles and movements, mise-en-scene and editing along with an article written by  The Guardian  about the decoding of the signs in the video.

Me and Jess aimed to re-create an iconic CD cover from a well established artist, to do this we had to use Photo-Shop in order to incorporate and develop some of our editing skills. We referred to an article named  'Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers'  for inspiration, from looking through these we discovered certain characteristics that we liked the look of and so we looked separately for black and white, emotional covers. Eventually we decided on a cover by Adele, we used '21' as we thought that this one carried the most emotion through facial expression. Below is the original above our version, Jess looked the most like Adele out of the two of us and so here they are: