Final Music Video Idea - 9/11/11

Our group has come up with many ideas. First off we had to figure out what the basis of our music video would be and we took about 15 minutes breaking it down into what is possible and what is not and what would be easiest and most difficult in order to make a good video. our initial storyline was is the studio shoot and the main character fitting in with society. we thought these were both good ideas as we needed an element of performance and we also had lots of ideas and concepts that fit in with the character fitting in with society. Our initial idea is that;

• girl is popular in school
• at home she is very different
• wakes up and gets ready for school
• see the fake self of her in a mirror and smashes it
• goes back to school showing her real self

I think that this is a good idea as it fits in with our concept of fitting in with society and how people are within different society groups. 

Peer Assessment of Mood Board - 4/11/11 (by DPR)

• Bright colours
• neutral colours like green
• obvious that i am trying to show that people are trying to find themselves and gain attention in order for people to understand them
• affective because it is clear that i am using images of people trying to be someone else who they are not to try to fit in with society
• yes it engages with the audience as there are some powerful pictures such as the lion in the mirror and the god hands that connote power and finding yourself.
• it also fits in with the theme of using identities and trying to find someones true identity and personality
• it can promote my recording artist because it fits in with the video ideas as i have images of people holding there self back and being upset, people seeing themselves as something different and people being happy with who they are and there life therefore it fits in with the theme and ideas of the music video. 

MusicVideoIdeas - 3/11/11

Idea 1 - Different Coloured Person/ Some wearing a animal costume.

Someone is different and in one colour or a different costume as they are from a different background and are not being accepeted in scoiety which is one of the messages that are in the song.

2 Hidden Identity

someone wearing a mask again because they do not fit in with society and are looking for a way to escape.

3 Attention Seeking

Someone is trying to seek attention as they are always in the background of the scene.
(Work well with our filming a video within a video idea)

Settings
Hall
Studio
DR3

We are still trying to figure out a good story idea which will go well with our ideas and trying to figure out something that work and fit in with our society.

Mood Board 2/11/11

Word cloud made with WordItOut
In Lesson today i made a mood board with things that i believe to be associated with our chosen song and ideas that come to mind. Our song is Here i Am by Girlicious. i thought that the song was quite natural which is why i have some natural colours and textures. i also thought that the song was about finding yourself and the band are still trying to find there true selves which is why i have the picture of the cat looking into the mirror and seeing a lion which connotes that they haven't found themselves as the picture shows that the cat wants to be this huge lion when it can't be. this also associates with being confused as they don't know who they truly are they are following paths that might not lead them where they want to go however to find yourself you have to discover new things and make mistakes on the way. The song i believe is also about being accepted by people as one of the lyrics is ''tell me is there more to me than what you see in magazines'' which could connote that people are not accepting them for who they are only what they are and they just want to be accepted and treated like normal people however not many pop stars are treated normally. When we start to think about filming our music video we can use filters to show the natural colours.

Website Analysis 14/10/11

Music Video Conventions 5/10/11

In todays lesson we had to look at some of the typical conventions that our chosen music genre has in order to make our own music video. Our chosen genre is dance pop, urban pop.

Camera
close up of the singers in the band
Main close ups are of the leaders of the band the main singer
long shots of the band as a whole group

Mise en Scene
in every video there is a narrative
the girls aloud music video was on a beach or desert island loads of sand, trees, thunder
pussycat dolls video were going on tour loads of fans tour bus, they also had the band so they had a lot of equipment such as drums, guitar, microphones
the saturdays video was also set on a beach and had a lot of sand, water.
the girls are also dressed down and wearing very little which is a way to sexualise them in order for them to sell records.

Editing
there are many quick shots flicking between the girls so they get an even amount of screen time however in the pussycat dolls nicole gets more screen time as she is the main singer.
lots of slow motion shots.

Music Iconogrpahy Designs Homework 4/10/11

Music Iconography Designs