Research and Planning

This week we have been planning our story boards and shooting scripts.We have drawn them and written on them on paper, as it was easier to get a sense of what was going to happen doing it manually. I am going to scan images of the drawn story boards and shooting scripts to show evidence on my blog. We have decided to use some conventions from Lady Gagas video. We have made fake dollar bills to throw around and have around the floor for the video, because we want to keep the theme of rich people having money to burn and superficiality (spending money on stupid things etc...) We also researched other female artists videos and found that they have backing dancers in most. We have decided to be the singers and the dancers in this video and not have any men to show the feminist view of women being able to do things on their own, and women having money and wealth instead of men. Most girl that we researched, Kylie Minouge, Britney Spears etc,, believe in girl power and highlight this in their videos by having women being the main focus. However, when planning this video we must take into account the theories of Carol Vernallis: who says that footage for a music video is completely different to any other filmed footage. 'Music videos avoid Aristotelian narrative's and fully drawn stories' This quote, from Vernallis book of theories, highlights that music videos are different types of footage, that do not require consistency or a full narrative, unlike films, as they do not need to make consistent sense. This makes it almost easier to create a music video, as putting a piece of dance next to a clip of one of us rolling around on the floor will not be unusual as it would in a real film.

IMAGES FOR THE WEBSITE AND MAGAZINE COVER






These are the images from our photo shoot, as you can see the quality of these is very high, and we will be using selected images for our magazine cover and website homepage. As you can see Kirsty edited some of the images to make them look better and fit with our theme for our video, for example, the lighting was changed to be brighter, with the saturation also changed, this will then fit with the bright colours we intend to use for our video.