Shooting Session #6

Our sixth shooting session was very short - it consists of a handful of shots of the main character (the boy) going through lyric cards in a similar fashion to the music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan. We have used a cultural signifier to strengthen the intertextual link - the industrial area in the music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues is a cultural signifier of the industrial area in which the music video was made. In our music video, the cultural signifier is a red postbox - a classic, iconic item that is strongly associated with contemporary Britain. 

The main problem we found in our shoot was that the lyric cards were simply too small - we need to re-shoot some of these shoots with A3 lyric cards rather than A4 so that you can see the text on the lyric cards in longer shots. This would enable us to create a more faithful reproduction of Bob Dylan's music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues. However, cutting the long shots together with the close-up shots we filmed would also create a satisfying use of lyric cards in our music video.