Mise en Scene

These were the kind of hair styles I wanted to use they range in style because I wanted each person to have there own individual look. Hairs can also have some sort of appeal so I feel that if we have a range of hair styles it will draw in different type of audiences who may like the hair stlye or want to do it on themselves.

I am going to have quite a lot of costume changes I want to represent different type of fashion styles and I am going to try and get to represent eras if I can get my hands on the outfits. this may all appeal to a wide variety of audience because everyone has their own style which may make it popular. Types of clothing and looking fashionable is something most people can relate to so i have to bring it into the music video.

At the start of the video I am deciding whether want to have them coming out of the car or I am going to start of with extreme close ups of their body features I will do both and see which one works out best.

I have a colourful background because I want this music video to be really colourful, very eye catching and bold.

Ideas For The Music Video

Camera Shots and Movement- In my music Video I will try to us ea wide range of shot and camera movements. In terms of the camera shot sizes I will use long shot so that it allow the audience to see the outfits and the movements of the artists.

I will use Mid-Long Shot, Mid-Shots and Mid-close up.
Close-Up will be used to allow the audience to see the look and facial expression of the artist.
Extreme close-up will be used as far as I know only for the beginning when I will be getting Extreme Close-Up of body features such as eyes, nails, lips etc.

The camera shot angles the I will be using is main eye-level but I will try to use a High angle.

In terms of camera movement I want to use Panning, Track in and out , Zoom and Ped up and down.

Lighting- This music video will have bright lighting because i just feel that you get a bright image when you listen to the song.

Editing- In the beginning of the music video it will have fast editing and at some parts of the song but most of it will be done in normal edit.

Costumes- In terms of costumes I was going to be using hopefully quite a wide range since the song was about fashion I want it to be something for the audience to focus on as well as the video. The different costume changes will be:

I want them to have a biker girl kind of look but it still comes across feminine and not too aggressive.
I want them to wear comic characters shirts or shirts with slogans I want them to be baggy.

I also wanted an all white look but instead of it being black heels they will wear different colours this is so yet again the audience will get the sense that from them wearing all white they are a group but there individuality and maybe personality will come out through them wearing different coloured heels. The audience may have a favourite colour.

I also wanted to get them wearing pink, white and black outfits this is so more of an cute side can be brought out them that shows a very feminine side. In terms of the audience this may appeal to younger girls who are in to the whole love of all things pink and girly.

Then they will also wear an outfit of there own choice to show their style. this can bring in I range of audiences since their style will be different.

I was also want to have outfits that represented different eras since fashion is something that has been important throughout the years and it may draw in audiences of different ages.

Props- I want to use an I-pod maybe for the beginning of the video playing the song through it then we hear the actual music from the track.
Also maybe use a car for the start of the music video for the intro and them coming out of it.
If I dont do any of these two props I already have an alternative.

Outline Of My Music Video

For my video I was going to experiment with the idea of having more that one girl singing the song to see if it would work it will sort of be like a girl group, even though it is only Lady Gaga singing the song I will try and see if this idea works.
For my media music Video I am doing the song 'Fashion' by Lady Gaga.

For the time being to my knowledge it will be performance base but that can be changed depending on what works better, since I am toying around with having narrative which may not technically count as a narrative but it most definitely not a performance I was thinking of having it as if they are a group of frineds just hanging out at each others house trying on clothes and genreally just getting excited at the site of clothes but I'm not sure whether this will be in the music video i will have to see how it works out.

The reason for me making it performance base is that the lyrics of the song just does not have any narrative element to it and I feel that it will work better if it was performance based because that way I can draw in an audience that ranges from male to female and of and ages because most people has a passion for fashion.

I already have an idea of where I would like my location to be but will try to get permission to shoot there. i was going to ask my friends dad if would allow me to use his hall as there will be a choreographed dance routine and I want it done in the hall. Then I was going to do individual shoots of the artists in different locations or the same location I may try both of them out.


I want the music video to be colourful and bright which I already know maybe an obstacle that I will have to see if I will be able to do it but I have a feeling that it will work with the song since doing research in to the genre it is a common code for it to be bright and flashy and I want to also experiment with having fast edits in it which is something I may struggle with due to getting the timing right but I am determined to have it in the video.


I am most likely going to have some Lady Gaga styles in but not a lot I may also try and incorporate a bit of Korean style that way I'm broadening my target audience but it may be in terms of hair styles or outfits I have not come to a decision.

Synthpop

The link for Little Boots Remedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McdqerXrwXE&ob=av2e

The link for La Roux Bulletproof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUsbpmQ9-mc

Lady Gaga Case Study

Music Video Timeline

1941: A new invention hits clubs and bars in the USA: The Panoram Soundie is a jukebox that plays short videoclips along with the music.

1956: Hollywood discovers the genre of music-centered films. A wave of rock and roll films begins ( Rock Around the Clock , Knock the Rock , Shake, Rattle and Rock , Rock Pretty Baby , The Girl Can Help It , and the famous Elvis Presley movies). Some of these films integrated musical performances into a story, others were simply revues.

1960: In France a re-invention of the Soundie, the Scopitone , gains limited success.

1962: British Television invents a new form of music television. Shows like Top Of The Pops

1964: The US-Television market adapts the format. Hullabaloo is one of the first US shows of this kind, followed by Shindig! (NBC) and American Bandstand ; The Beatles star in A Hard Day & Night

1966: The first conceptual promos are aired, for the Beatles song Paperback Writer and Rain.

1967: Even more ambitious videos are released for Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever.

1970: The record industry discovers these TV-Shows as a great opportunity to promote their artists. They focus on producing short early music videos which started to replace the live performance of the artist on the TV-stage.

1975: Bohemian Rhapsody a groundbreaking video released by Queen marked the beginning of the video era and set the language for the modern music video.

1979: Devo releases The Day My Baby Gave Me a which is the first music video to include computer animation as well as the first to include traditional animation.
1980: Ashes to Ashes which is considered as a groundbreaking video is released by David Bowie .
1981: MTV , the first 24-hour satellite music channel, launches. Initially few cable TV operators carried it, but it rapidly became a major hit and cultural icon.

1981: Michael Nesmith wins the first ever music video Grammy with Elephant Parts .

1984: Michael Jackson's short film Thriller is released, changing the concept of music videos forever. The Making of Thriller home video was also released in 1984. It was the first ever video about the making of a music video.

1989: Madonna's controversial video for Like a Prayer is released.

1991: Nirvana release the Smells Like Teen Spirit video changing the MTV platform from glam rock to alternative rock, and catapulting grunge and Kurt Cobain into the American and Worldwide mainstream.

1992: Guns N Roses groundbreaking video for November Rain " is released and remains as one of the costliest ever produced.

1996: Pop-up Video is first aired on VH1 .

2006: The Norwegian unsigned band Rektor makes the worlds first playable videogame music video game .

My A2 skills

A few things had to be changed due to circumstances such as on of our member leaving because she had such an important role in this production such as she had her friends say that they would be the characters for the opening and house was meant to be the original location but because she left we had to start from scratch.

Also some of the things that we were attempting was just to hard for people who were beginnig doing media so we had to change it and that is why it does not add up to what we were originally planning on filming.

Also in the shooting script we mentioned that we would open the scene with crab shot but we were unable to do that because we did not have the right equipment for that so we had to change that.
Instead we replaced that with an establishing shot and then used the dip to black transition to link the scenes and make it flow and fit right.

Because we were unable to make filming when it was darker because we did not have time we did it during the dark and then later on in the process we edited it and made it darker to give it more of a thriller film effect.

We had very limited time and we had to find cast and a whole new location but despite the pressure i feel we did as best that we could well actually we could of done it better but we were under so much pressure to meet the deadline that's the best we could do.

When we had our fellow class mates critique our work they told us things that we already knew but couldn't do anything about it because it was to late. They comment on certain things like how the camera was shaky but i i do say so myself it is an improvement from the preliminary task.

We added a slow motion effect near the end of the opening but the transition to it did quite work and flow that was also one of the criticisms we got so we had to make it still a slow mo but just a faster speed so it could flow and it worked.

We were also told that the idea of the film was good especially for a thriller but if we had gotten everything right it would of been much better.

We also had trouble being able to see the text on the phone at the end of the opening so we had to change that scene and make it seem as if damein was picking up the phone after he has kidnapped the woman> which would make people want to know what he has done with her.

Location Photos

This is the bush that we will see the female protagonist emerge from in the beginning of the opening.
This is to show she was hiding from the person who is chasing after her.

Those three pictures are just pictures of the area.

In the actually opening sequence it will not be so light whether it be we have to film it late or we do some video effects.

Cast

Jackline Boateng

Jackline Boateng helped act the part of the male protagonist. although she is female it worked out well for us because the male protagonist in the film opening face does not need to be seen but we had to use her just to file the opening.

Janet Kamara

Janet Kamara is playing the female protagonist. She will be acting as the person you see in the beginning of the clip. Janet was a friend of mine who helped us out because we in desperate need of an actress and she volunteered to help us.

The Boat that Rocked- Research

• It is a working title film
• The film made a loss instead of a profit. The budget was $50 million and it made a profit of $35,166,683.
• The film was advertised by T.V. adverts, billboards, posters and radio.
• The film was distrubuted to the United Kingdom and United States. It was distrubuted by Universal Pictures and Focus Features.
• It was also exhibition in the Unmited Kingdom and United States.
• The boat that Rocked had synergy marketing from both Working Title and Universal Pictures since they both made the film.