Video we have chosen

This is the video we have chosen to base our own music video on. We chose this as we thought Lady Gaga was fresh and origional and suits our groups personalities. When choosing this video we also looked at a lot of girl bands, as we knew from the start this was the genre we wanted to base our video around. The first group we looked at was Girls Aloud, as they are one of the most successful girl groups in the Country at the moment.

This is the first video I looked at. I first noticed the shot of the girls walking forward together at the beginning of the video, making them look powerful as it is shot from a low and angle. I liked this shot from the start, and as i started exploring more videos I noticed it was a very popular in girl groups videos, and even in Lady Gagas video. We also noticed that each girl had a close up and a shot of their own, not just all together throughout. We decided we should do this to show four different sides of Lady Gaga, and also to give everybody in the group a chance to film and experiment with different angles.



This is the video we watched next. The clothing in this video stood out a lot, as the girls were wearing very little. Comparing this to the outfits Lady Gaga wears, you can see that both have a lot of skin showing, however, Lady Gagas outfits are a lot more strange and different compared to the usual 'sexy girl band' outfits the Pussycat Dolls are wearing. We decided to stick with the conventions of both videos and wear sexy clothes to make sure the girl band idea wasnt lost, but also to try and make the outfits different and of our own style instead of the conventional girl band outfits.

When we finally chose Lady Gaga, Beautiful Dirty Rich, we looked into the deeper meanings behind some of the things in her video, The song is all about being Beautiful and rich, but also dirty. we decided that the people Gaga is talking about are celebrities who are very rich, but 'dirty' for example, Lindsey Lohan, instead of using her talent, fame and fortune for good, she goes out and gets drunk and wastes her money, Paris Hilton, who does exactly the same, and Nicole Richie, who is also the same. We decided to stick with this concept and show how rich girls take everythign for granted, you can see this in the video as Lady Gaga rolls up a dolla note and lights it up and smokes it. This is highlighting how the little rich girls have money to burn. We are going to keep this concept in our videos.