Selecting out ancillary text images
As you can see, we had a variety of different shots to choose from for our ancillary texts. We wanted to get shots of Mikah standing up, sitting down, looking towards the camera and looking away. We also got a variety of shots of Mikah's prop (the bat) that she uses throughout the entire music video. We felt it played a significant role in the making of Mikah's character as a dominant ethnic representative of the R&B genre.
Originally wanting Mikah to have the bat over her shoulder, we then changed to an image of Mikah sitting on the floor. We chose to do this because it exposed less of her midriff, something we decided to avoid from the start of our planning, as our aim was to make Mikah look dominant; not sexual. This went against the typical conventions of the R&B genre, as the women featured are often made to look promiscuous. However, we wanted our artist to be a modest role model for our young female target audience.
Mikah was placed infront of a green screen, we decided to do this instead of a plain background, as we wanted to make use of the editing software 'PhotoShop'. Our plan was to have Mikah in front of a graffiti background, and in order to do this we would have needed to edit it in. Hence, the green screen. This would make our digipak stand out to the audience, which is good for promoting.
After analysing our pictures, we could clearly identify the positions that Mikah was and wasn't comfortable being in. We wanted to choose the most casual and effortless shots, as this makes our artist seem more confident as in her lead role. This is good for promoting our artist as she comes across as a professional individual.
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