Teenage Dream Ideas (Five)

We want our artist in the music video to be fashionable in the Brighton shots and 'girly' in the bedroom shots. There are not many iconic pop female artists who I feel will suit for clothing for our music video for example, Lady Gaga's clothing is very eccentric which gains her publicity. I then decided to research female bands as they tend to be very fashionable for example, Girls Aloud who seems to mix fashion, promiscuous and individuality with each member in their clothing. Although, most female pop artists have personal stylists I feel that we can give our artist an fashionable and individual style with our budget.
After using search engines such as Google we found style icons that we feel will suit our music video for example, for clothing I thought our inspiration could be Frankie Sandford and Vanessa White, I thought of Leighton Meeser for our hair inspiration and lastly Frankie Sandford and Rihanna for our make up inspiration.

Clothing Style Icon

For the shots filmed in Brighton we felt that we should have the clothing as 'rocky' and 'edgy' which challenges the pop genre and we want the clothing to suit our artist's name Crystal Rox, we want the clothing to be fashionable and modern so the clothing will be bought at Riverisland and Topshop or use clothing which looks like it would be sold at Riverisland and Topshop. For the clothing style icons I thought that Frankie Sandford and Vanessa White both from The Saturdays will suit our style. However, whilst shooting in the actresses bedroom she will be wearing pink pajamas which represents is a verisimilitude of her feminity and child like attitude, we do not have a style icon for the bedroom scene as we have already planned the outfit which is on the right.

Brighton Day Clothing Icon (Vanessa White)

The photograph on the left is of Vanessa White from The Saturdays as I felt it will suit our day time look in Brighton, I really like her choice of outfit such as her skinny black ripped jeans, black vest top, black leather waist coat and black leather fingerless gloves. I would like this outfit in our music video as it gives Vanessa a 'rock chick' edge and this outfit would conform to our ideas in our music for example, the lead girl dreaming and in the dream her style changes to make her seem 'popular' and 'cool'. However, in our music video our outfit will differ from the picture as we will have black skinny jeans without any rips because of the possibility of cold weather and rain the actress would be freezing.

Brighton Night Clothing Icon (Frankie Sandford)

The photo on the right is of Frankie Sandford also from The Saturdays, I really like the outfit in this photograph as I feel it will suit our night clothing. When filming in Brighton we thought about portraying Brightons nightlife in clubs and raves, we wanted to film in clubs and raves which are shown in Skins which portray a stereotypical teenage life in Brighton, however we would have to film in a club for teenagers as some of our group will not be over eighteen.The clothing in the photograph consists of a mid thigh length dress which has a long zip down the front of the dress, black open toe high heels, black leggings, black waist belt with gold studs and gold bracelets. I would like to incorporate this night time style if we do decide to film in clubs, pubs or raves as I think it looks very fashionable and youthful. The outfit would make the actress look older which suits the idea behind the clothing which is to make her suit the recent fashion and I really like the accessories that Frankie has included in the outfit for example, the bracelets and the belt. However, our night time clothing would not look exactly the same as the photo but the image has inspired us for the night time style.

Make-up Style Icons

When filming in Brighton we want the lead actress to have dark smokey eye make-up as we feel it will suit the clothing and the 'rock chick' style. This make-up will conform to the idea behind our music video of the lead girl's rock style will challange the pop genre. Although, when filming in Brighton we want the lead girl to wear foundation and nude or pink lipgloss, so we have only focused on style icons for the eye make-up. For the smokey eye make up we have used search engines such as Google to findmake-up icons who we feel are suitable for our music video.

Whilst researching I found that Rihanna and Frankie Sandford have similar make-up styles as to what we want in our video. However, for our shots in the bedroom we do not have a make-up style icon as we know what we want to have which is shown on the left, the shots in bedroom we will have natural make-up such as light foundation, mascara, eye liner and brown eye shadow.

Brighton Make-up Style Icons (Frankie Sandford)

The photograph on the right is of Frankie Sandford from The Saturdays eyes I really like the long eye lashes as I think they stand out even though there is black and dark brown eye shadow, although I think these eye lashes are false eye lashes. I think this make up style will suit our music video as we wanted dark smokey eye make-up and even though the eye shadow is dark is also has other shades of colours to add interest for example, black, grey, dark brown and glitter light brown. However, I do not know if we should have this eye make-up style during the day in Brighton as it may seem too over the top, although we want the lead girl in the video to stand out and be over the top with her dreaming such as the romantic hand heart symbols which portray their love.

Brighton Make-up Style Icon (Rihanna)

The photograph on the left is of Rihanna's eye make-up which I feel could inspire our make-up in our music video, again I really like the eye lashes even though they are false but I think it makes Rihanna's eyes stand out. I love the choice of multiple colours in the eye shadow for example the eye lid has black liquid eye liner and dark brown eye shadow and below the eye consists of black, grey and dark green/navy, the choice of the colours once again make the her eyes stand out. I feel that this eye make-up style suits our music video more than Frankie Sandford's eye make-up as this style is more subtle however it is still dramatic and I feel this eye make-up would suit the clothing in our video.

Hair Style Icon

When we are looking for hair style icons we have to think about the hair colour and hair length that our actress has, our lead actress has mid length brunette hair. I found a photoshoot in Elle Magazine which I felt would suit the hair in our music video, Leighton Meeser is the model in the photoshoot. The photograph on the right is of Leighton Meeser from Elle Magazine, I think we should have the actresses hair in the bedroom scene the same as the photo as the length of the actresses hair and the style is similar as they both have layered hair. I really like the parting in Leighton's hair as it seems like she pushed her hair to that side, I really like that the longest layer which is curled although the top of her hair is straight. Though when we are filming we may decide to have the lead actresses hair in a pony tail as she is dancing.

Hair Style Icon (Leighton Meeser)

The photographs are taken from a photoshoot from Elle Magazine which is a fashion magazine aimed at women, the image on the left is a montage of the photoshoot. I really love that Leighton's hair is curly and it seems like she has a low side pony tail, I think that her hair has been clipped on to one side and the use of the clips gives her hair volume and it adds layers. Although Leighton Meeser has extentions in her hair I think that her hair seems natural which is shown by the top right photo. Also, I like that the hair seems messy and I think the hair style would suit the 'rock' style that we want in our music video. The photo on the right shows the hair style more clearly as the thick curls on one side is shown, I really like the length of Leighton's hair aswell. However, ideally I would like to have this hair style as I feel that the curls would portray her actresses feminity although the messiness gives her a 'rock chick' edge. But the actress in our music video does not have long or dark brunette hair, so we could still incorporate the curls on the side but it will not be as dramatic.

Artist Name Ideas

We found it very difficult to try and find a name that we all agreed on and to find a name that we all thought suited our artist who is a soloist and the genre. This a list of names that we were considering:

1) Ohlala- This name seems iconic and modern, when researching Ohlala we found out that the phrase is used in perfume adverts such as Chanel and we was not sure if we would be allowed to use the name due to copyright reasons. We felt it would be more suitable for a band name so we did not pursue with this name.

2) Iris- We found this name using search engines such as Google by typing in unique names to try and find a name that will be noticeable. When researching Iris we found out that it is a flower which conforms to the pop genre as feminine and girly. Although, this name is interesting it does not conform or challenge our age range in pop genre, we then decided not to continue with this name.

3) Pink Poison- We liked this name because half of name conform to the pop genre 'pop' and the other half challenges the pop genre artists and it seems 'rocky'. We thought this name was unique and intriguing because there are no artists called Pink Poison, however we later realised that a Cheerleading Squad is called Pink Poison and we did not want our artist to be associated with them nd the name seems more suitable for a band.

4) Crystal Rocks- We finally settled on calling our artist Crystal Rocks because it seems like a first name and surname which conforms to pop artists within our age for example, Miley Cyrus, this name could further our audience because of it's catchy name. The artist name could be spelt in two different ways such as Crystal Rocks or Crystal Rox which seems modern, however we have not decided on how we want to spell the name. When researching the name we found that out that a Christian group, a water bottle company, a high fashion organic clothing range and a T-shirt company are called Crystal Rock, so we will have to spell our name 'Rox' to make us stand out and not be associated with them. Although, there is a band called Crystal Castles they are in the electro genre. The name could be interpreted as crystallised rocks or the artist is innocent which contrasts to rock. The name conforms to the pop genre 'crystal' which is glamorous and expensive this makes the artist seem iconic and rock challenges the pop genre.

Name Research

In our group we have struggled with trying to find a name suitable for our genre, our theme of the music video and the style of our artist, we created a mind map which is shown below of our ideas and research in to our artist name.

We thought of our artist having a first name and surname which conforms to pop genre of our age range which is 17-18 years old for example, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus, though these artists are portrayed as 'happy' and 'child like' because they are on the television channel Disney. The full names for the disney artist reinforces their innocence, however as they have got older their innocence has been tainted which is shown by Miley Cyrus who was in Hannah Montana which is aimed at young children and her controversial pole dancing that she done at the VMA's. Many of the artists with a first name and surname are American for example, Justin Beiber and Katy Perry. I think the first name and surname will suit our artist because we will conform to the pop genre within our age and the style of these artists are fashionable which is how we want our style to be in our music video.

We thought of having a Stage Name which is usually for iconic artists such as Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Rihanna and Madonna, although these artists are very well known I do not think that we should have a stage name. The artists style are usully flamboyant and the artists music videos and stage performance is very expensive such as, Lady GaGa featuring Beyonce- Telephone which was filmed in a prison and they had many extras for the dance performance. Some UK artists have a stage name for example, Pixie Lott but she is not iconic.

We thought about having a band name after a first name for example, Florence and the Machine and Marina and the Diamonds, these bands have lead female vocalists which is very modern. However, these type of artists are in the alternative genre rather than the pop genre.

Music Video Wordle

Below is a Wordle made from http://www.wordle.net/ we used words that we thought suited our music video, the themes in our music video and words associated with the pop genre. The wordle was originally landscape so I rotated it so the words will be more clear.

This wordle is very colourful which represents the pop genre as 'bright' and 'fun', we feel that the words First, Love, Teens and Dreaming suits our music video the most because they are the most significant themes in our music video. We have linked these words with our band brand image which suits our artist, music video and the song.

Make Up and Costume in her Bedroom

When filming in the girls bedroom we want her make up to look 'natural' which contrasts her make up in Brighton, we decided to do this because we want to show what the girl wants and it is a clue to show that the girl is dreaming.
The natural make up consists of light foundation, vaseline, pink lip gloss, blusher and mascara with this make up it will look natural and it will make our actress feel comfortable when filming.

We tried to re-create the natural look (left) we used two shades of brown eye shadow one was a golden colour and the other colour was muddy brown to line the upper eye lash. We liked this eye shadow although we think it is not very natural and we want less make up.

The photograph on the right of the pajamas are pink and it has the print of paws, this reinforces the girls innocence and it could make the girls performance in her room slightly comical. The performance is in the girls bedroom which has pink decorations and furniture so we felt having pink pajamas will suit the setting and it will symbolise that she is 'girly'.

Make Up and Costume in Brighton

When filming in Brighton we want to have our lead woman's make up as black smokey eye because we want her outfit to seem 'rocky' which challenges the pop genre, we want the make up and costume in Brighton to contrast the make up and costume in her bedroom. On the left is a picture that we found on the search engine Google, we want her to have foundation on and nude colour lipgloss so the audience focus mainly on her eye make-up. Ideally we want her eye make up to look like this (left) but when we tried to re-create this style (right) it did not work as well as we hoped because our eye make up was lighter and we found it difficult to get that exact look. Before we start filming we will need to keep trying to re-create that eye make up. Below is a video of how to get the smokey eye look which is from Youtube although this look is lighter than the picture that we got from Google.

We found this tutorial very helpful for us to use but we want our eye make up to be darker so we will use different products or find different videos where the final looks turn out to be more how we want our eye make up to turn out.

On the right is a photograph of the outfit that we want to have when filming in Brighton because we feel that the 'rocky' clothing will change the pop genre but the pink pajamas will conform to the pop genre, this could represent the girls innocence has been tainted. The outfit consists of a black jean jacket, grey rolling stones top, black skinny jeans and black military boots. We really liked this outfit because it is in fashion at the moment and that conforms to the pop genre, also when we are filming in December time it will be bad weather so the greys and blacks in the outfit matches the weather.

It could be argued that the dark clothing could portray that the girl is not happy in her relationship and life, however we feel that the girl's happiness will be portrayed in her facial expression and her gazing at her boyfriend when he is not looking.