Preparation

This half term, Samantha and I should finally begin filming!!

Before then, ive been doing as much research as i possibly can and have came up with a few ideas for our video.

Firstly, with the first lyrics being "Let me paint a picture", i thought it would be a good idea to get a pencilled or painted sketch of Edie from the internet and let that be the first image shown followed by Warhol in the midst of painting it with the real version of Edie (Samantha) in the background in the exact same position of the picture; depending on whether its a head or full body shot.

Here's a possible selection of sketches/paintings i found that we may use in the video:



A large headshot of Edie?


















Or a smaller one in colour?


















Or an unfinished painting?












Edie Sedgewick's real voice- her views:

I then remembered a technique used in "Factory Girl"- where they used the real voice of Edie Sedgewick and put it in the film throughout as a voice over. This made me think of using something Edie had said quickly about herself or her views on an issue right at the end of our video, just as the music fades out. This would give our video some more significance and make what she had said more meaningful and upsetting.

I searched around Youtube for any clips that had her speaking in it and found some documentaries where she spoke on love and drugs-which is what we are portraying in our video.
The two samples I found with the most significance were these:

Edie Sedgewick talk about love






Though her speech is 30 seconds long, that may be too long. If we were to use this i would suggest to cut out the first 10 seconds and use the last 20 seconds because you still get the basic outline of what she is saying.


Edie Sedgewick Interview




Obviously most of this clip isnt needed but the little speech from 50 seconds to 1:04 "I got my first introduction to heavy drugs at the factory...i would like to turn the whole world on just for a moment, just for a moment"I had found really heartbreaking, especially as it's slightly slurred and therefore agonising to listen to as it illustrates how she wasnt in control of herself and the state she was in was all because of the factory.