BANANARAMA-VENUS

The song is completely dominant by feminine power as this shown by the close ups of female actress and their pleasurable body. The lyrics and visuals are connected to each other 'I'm your Venus and your desire' reflects beautiful actress and their desirable body. The customs wore by actress are powerful which makes them superior. For instance the Dracula custom with the wings symbolises her power upon men. The moment she flings her wings we see men emerging from it this shows men are her servants and she is one who is looking after them.

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

The song demonstrates the Rock and Roll generation of 1980s. The relationship between the music and visuals are related as the visuals is rough and tough like the song. The mise-en-scene and background lighting are dark and heavy which shows the theme of heavy metallic music. The song also have lots of close up of the main artist to show his facial expression and body language. The main artist is more prioritised than his band members to show the main artist is more popular with the audience and is pleasurable to desire for.

Queen-I want to break free

The song narrates the story of a group of men wanting to live their lives as being women. The song implies Goodwin's theories in a significant ways. For instance, The music video shows a relationship between lyrics and visuals. The background of crowded people in dark symbolises artist's desire of becoming free. The music video also have close ups of main artist to show from his point of view. The mise-en-scene and make ups develop the overall theme of the feminine power in the music video as how artists are possessed with feminine clothes and products. The music video provides symbolism and responses that is what some 1980s men desire to be.

Target Audience

The target audience for our music video is teenagers and young adults, in particular girls. We think that they will be able to empathise more with the actress in our video and possibly relate with her. On the poster we have put pictures of things that our target audience would like e.g the perfume. We have also put these things on to represent the sweetness of the girl in our music video. Like Cheryl Cole in the poster our actress is innocent and pretty but as the time passes she becomes more optimistic and aggressive as she is betrayed and fooled by her own fate.

 

Previous student work

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tccmedia#p/u/19/64KXiQIFVks

Strengths-

• The actor in the video is good at playing the guitar so it is believable that he is playing the song 
• The lip sincing is very good which makes it look like he is really singing
• I like the range of shots used throughout the video such as the high angles and the close ups as it makes it more interesting rather than just him standing there singing 
• i  like the way he sings it to the audience, it makes the song seem more meaningful 

Weaknesses 

• They could have used a better range of locations or if they wanted to stay at the same one throughout they could have found a more interesting location
• they havnt used any effects throughout the video which made it quite boring

Hear you can see the original single cover for Lil Waynes song 'How To Love'. i like it because i think the dark colours and the way Lil Wayne is standing reflects the saddness of the song.

On the front cover of our digipack i have ideas of having a close up shot of our main actress at the train station with a train going past in the background. This could represent her letting go of the past and looking foward to the future.

 Similar to this picture i have found but the girl wouldnt be smiling to show the seriousness of the story and she wouldnt be looking directly to the camera. i would also like to get a train going past at the same time.


Another Idea i have had is having a long shot of the girl in the field walking. It would be taken from far away to make her look small in the big wide space. This would reflect her lonleyness and vunrabilty in the music video. Here is an example of how i would want it to look like-




I really like the effects used in this picture as i think it sets the mood well.

Shot Lists for our Music Video

A Girl

• Baggy tops and Jeans


• Designer bags


• Ugg boots

Boyfriend

• Black woody/jumper


• Black jeans


• White vest/t-shirts


• trainers

A boy(Girl's best friend)

• Navy vest/check shirts


• Jeans


• Flat shoes

Props

• Ipod


• Flower bouquet


• Mobile phone


• Cigarettes


• Photo frame


• Books


• Suitcase/hand bags

Examples of some web pages

Music websites have become one of the most significant tools of this generation as people are influenced by downloading their all time favorite songs from the websites. Another important point is because people show interests on their favorite artist's current news affair. Most of the music web pages are designed by fans to persuade other people to join the websites and support the artist.

Web pages that I was inspire by:

This music web page is designed for Sarah Solovay's fans. The design of web page is very professional as everything is place neatly. The website also have an access to Youtube, Twitter and Itunes the three biggest area to listen to her music and comment on it. The albums below persuades her fans to buy them

Compare to Sarah's web page this is very different as this web page is aimed at teenagers. The web page is very stylist and funky, aimed more on teenagers who loves rock music. I was inspire by the picture of a man playing the instrument in the background- it looks very realistic!

Similar to Sarah's web page this web is designed to attract Akon's fans. This web page is more aimed on people who adores R&b songs. Similar to Sarah's web page it has an access to Twitter and Facebook.

Setting and Location for our Music video

This location is going be used in the beginning of the music video while the girl walks through open field listening to her Ipod. We decided to use this type of location to present the character is isolated by the society. The plainness of open field is a symbolism of her feeling emptiness and dissatisfied with her life. In this scene the audience will see through the view point of a girl.








We have chose cafe to show the conversation between the girl and a boy we chose college for this scene but later on we changed the college scene into cafe- that's where the most of the scene of boy and a girl is going to be shot.

The setting of 'Abbey Garden' is used when the girl is shown with her boyfriend. It can be also used for girl's flashbacks .We chose this setting to reflect the relation the girl have with her boyfriend .The setting is perfect in mid winter as this can show girl's insecure feelings.

Train Station

This location is one of the most significant location in our music video.

It is mostly to be seen in final scene to show the girl's isolation and her losing the last chance with the boy.

Update!

We are currently working on our story board and deciding what we will be filming for our music video. We have also discussed the sort of actors we want and who we could ask, locations and costumes. We seem to be on track at the moment and can hopefully start filming soon :)