New Opening Idea

When we changed our narrative idea we decided to change our opening. Instead of having the photographs from the wedding, we will use photographs of our artist growing up such as, baby photographs, toddler, child, teenager and early adult. Our new idea fits well with time and how quickly the photographs appear on screen represents how quickly youth grow up.

Make Up Inspiration

Whilst watching Breakfast Club I really liked the extreme close up shot of the girl applying her make up. Also, I liked the delicate brush strokes when the girl applied mascara. Which I then thought that we could create a shot similar to the Breakfast Club scene but our artist would blink, the blink fit with the beat. I filmed the scene on my iPhone and I uploaded it straight from my phone to YouTube.

New/Final Idea

When it came to editing our music video we felt that the transvestite idea was too confusing for the audience and people thought that the extreme close up shots of the boy applying mascara and eyeshadow was the performer. We then decided to change our music video to a performance base video which was inspired by Alexis Jordan- Good Girl, this makes the audience can connect to the performer. We have decided to make time the main theme of our video so we can portray how quickly youth is growing up in todays society, we will show the artist growing up by the seventeen photographs in the beginning showing the artist as a baby, toddler, child, teenager and then early adult. In the music video we will show the artist getting ready to go clubbing which shows that she is in the early stages of adulthood, we will use a variety of make up styles, hairstyles and clothes to make the mise-en-scene appeal to the female audience who mainly listen to mainstream pop. We want our artist to get ready and perform in her bedroom this was inspired by Taylor Swift- Belong With Me music video. We feel like our new idea will make more sense to the audience and it will appeal to our female target audience.

Below is the music video to Taylor Swift- Belong With Me which is the main inspiration of our artist performing in her bedroom.

Below is the music video to Alexis Jordan- Good Girl, we was inspired by this video as it is a performance base music video. Also, our location is inspired by Good Girl as we will use a black and white back drop.

We created an animated storyboard of the first one minute and twenty five seconds of the song, we made the storyboard to show our new narrative ideas. With the longer shots in the music video we will change the angles or the characters placement. Creating the storyboard has helped us to create new ideas for shots, for the rest of the music video. We labeled each shot in the story which has the different camera shots and the location of the shots.

Below is the our animated storyboard.

Performance Ideas

For Kaylas performance we wanted to have a variety of backgrounds to make the music video interesting and to keep the audience entertained, as our music video is mostly performance. We will have Kayla performing in front of a white and black back drop because we really liked that is portrays sophistication, Kayla will wear different colour dresses to make her stand out. After watching Adele- Rolling in the Deep (screenshot on the right) we decided that we wanted to have a background that would be unusual, we found it intriguing that where Adele is performing in the beginning of the video, later the video goes back to the same location but Adele is not there.

Following this idea we researched many different music videos to find a background that we all liked. We thought about having a projection on the whiteboard in the media room or the hall, of a location. In B.O.B featuring Hayley Williams- Airplanes (left) most performance shots are in front of a projector. We loved that we could create any location using the projector and we in the song there is a lyric 'Let's runaway and don't ever look back', so a different location would suit our music video. We thought about having the picture on the projector as a field and in the end of the video Lewis opens the door so we could then have a cut away shot of Kayla in a field letting a balloon in the shape of a heart go. Which is similar to the picture on the right.

Jess came up with the idea of having the lyrics to Teenage Dream painted on Kayla's body which is similar to America's Next Top Model photo shoot (left). The idea came from when Jess watched this episode of America's Next Top Model, the photograph was for a teen anti-bullying campaign and the models had a negative bully word on there body, and then a positive word that contrasts. We all thought that doing this would make our performance unique, we thought that Kayla would be laying down whilst singing in this performance.

Example of Our Opening

In our storyboard we were going to have seventeen different quick shots of seventeen different romantic gestures with out showing the actors in the video such as, a couple holding hands, hands creating a heart and a wide shot from the side of the couple showing them hugging. The seventeen shots were going to be the same as the seventeen beat opening the song. We then started to experiment with different ideas of our opening such as the seventeen different shots of the couple (original idea), seventeen photographs being placed of the couple or seventeen different shots of the artist introducing her as she is a new artist.

We have decided to change and develop our opening to fit with our new narrative, the new opening is going to have seventeen different photographs of a couple at their wedding. We will use my grandparents wedding album photographs, we chose these photographs as we loved the contrast between the black and white photographs and the red cloth. The cloth that we have decided to put the photographs on is red which has connotations of love and passion, the design on the cloth is hearts which fits well with the wedding photographs.

Below is an example of our opening and how it fits with the opening beats:

(note: these are example photographs, we will not use them in the final)

However, in our music video we will not have the hands, only the photographs which gives the opening an animation element. Also, we will use the wedding album photographs in the opening.

New Narrative

Our previous narrative for our music video was a girl who meets a boy at a train station and the video would of explored their relationship and the dates that they went on for example, winter wonderland, restaurant and a walk around London. Then towards the end of the music video the girl would be watching footage of her and the boy ice skating at winter wonderland and she would pause the television when she sees the boy holding another girls hand. The scenes would quickly reverse which was inspired by Kids in Glass Houses- Matters At All, this would of taken the audience back to the meeting of the couple it would of become apparent that the girl was stalking the boy. Also, in the 'dates' the boy would of been with his actual girlfriend, we would of shown this by wide shots and at the restaurant scenes before there would of only been close up shots or back mid or wide shots. Both girls would of been wearing similar outfits so the audience would not of been able to tell them apart. However, when we was going to film there was snow so we had to delay our schedule as we wanted to film in London and some train services had been canceled. The night before we was going to film one of our group members could not get in contact with the boy who was an important part in our music video, he did not return our calls so we had to decide on another narrative as his withdraw from the music video was very sudden.

We then changed our narrative to the singer getting ready to go out and then we would have people performing in to the camera with objects or photographs of people that they love to represent our interpretation of teenage dream lyrics, which is love and connection that teenagers feel with people. Michaela and Emily had filmed this but we thought it looked too cliche of a female pop music video and our music video would not stand out and it would not be memorable. We thought about including a twist to make the video more interesting for example, the girl in the video getting ready to meet her girlfriend, so she is a lesbian.

But after much consideration we have decided to change our narrative again, this is our final narrative that we will use in our music video.

We will have a girl getting ready it will be implied that she girl is getting ready to meet her boyfriend through cut away shots of a wedding album, roses, couples holding hands etc. We will film the performer in three different locations for example, walking down a street, laying down with different couple materials on the ground and singing in front of a white background. We may include shots of different dancing to convey the pop genre. Towards the end we will show the girl meeting another girl, the audience will see that the person who they actually thought was a girl is actually a boy who is a transvestite. We will trick the audience to thinking it is a girl by different cut away shots of feminine objects such as nail varnish, shoes and hand bags. And at the end we will show the transition between the boy changing in to the girl, this will be memorable to the audience and they will be able to watch the video over again, the boys teenage love is wanting to be a girl and the love for his girlfriend. The message of our music video is to not judge couples and to have an open mind about every relationship. We feel very happy with our new narrative and we feel confident with our story and the performance.

Extra Footage from Lip Syncing

The video below is our extra footage of when we filmed Michaela lip synching, we feel that creating a video to music has improved our editing skills as we have improved our timing on the beat and we have improved our variety of different shots.

I love the shot of the reverse editing when Emily took her jacket off and the girl running, as this shot suited the piece of music as it was an instrumental part of the song. I love the element of dancing in this video as I feel it will suit our genre, so I think we should consider applying music in our video.

Also, in this video we experimented with lighting such as the dark lighting in some of the dance sequences and the sunlight shining on to the camera, we considered having this lighting technique in our video before and after watching this we have decided we want to include. However, due to the weather we may have to use artificial light but it may not have the same affect.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Nine)

I think that we should include a silhouette shot which would be of Michaela (girl A) or Jessica (girl B) and the boy, so the audience assume that the boy is with Michaela (girl A) .
The still shot on the right is from 30 Seconds to Mars- Kings and Queens, this shot makes the audience immediately focused on the people as the subject contrasts the background.
The silhouette could be a close up shot of the side of Michaela's face when she has realised that she is not actually in a relationship with him which represents the 'dark' side of her love and the obsession. We could also have a mid shot or a close up shot of girl (B) and the boy during the video. However the audience will not know that it is girl (B) as the silhouette is blacked out, an example of a similar shot is shown in 30 Seconds to Mars- Kings and Queens shot on the left. Below is the video to 30 Seconds to Mars- Kings and Queens.

Many silhouettes are used in Labrinth- Let the Sunshine but the sequence of the silhouettes that I find the most interesting are at 1.08-1.24. The sequence is during a clapping part of the song which bulids up to the chorus. In our music video to Teenage Dream there are a lot of instrumental beats, so I feel that we could include a sequence similar to this in our music video.There are two different shots in one each second, one of the shots is a silhouette and the other one is usually a mid shot or a close up of the artist singing the song. The silhouette is at two different angles, in one shot Labrinth's face will be on the left and the next silhouette his face will be on the right. I have created a montage of the sequence showing each shot which is shown on the right. I would think we should create a sequence similiar to the video as I believe it will suit our narrative and we could include performance during the sequence. Below is the music video Labrinth- Let the Sunshine the sequence is at 1.08-1.24.


After researching on how to create a silouhette I have found out that we should have a lighting pointing towards the subject matter far away but in the shot the light is not shown and the camera should be focused on the face. When editing we can make to silouhette darker by increasing the contrast, we would have to use a non dark background and there should not be a lot of night in the room.

By including the silhouette in our video we would be increasing the amount of performance, and after watching previous A Level music videos many A grade video have majority performance.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Eight)

As a group we have decided to change our narrative, as we felt that our music video would be uneventful and forgetful in comparison to other music videos. We felt that our previous narrative idea would not be memorable through the other A2 media students. Another previous idea was to create an Alter Ego, we have incorporated this idea but girl (A) will try to act like another girl (B) who contrasts the girl's style and personality.
For our new narrative we wanted to have girl (A) who is obsessed think that she is in a relationship with the boy, the audience will also believe that girl (A) is dating the boy. However, towards the end of the song girl (A) is watching footage that she had earlier filmed and she pauses the television of the boy holding hands with girl (B). We want an element of voyeurism which will show the girl on the television filming herself and may be performing. This was inspired by Kids in Glass Houses- Matters At All.
We thought of Girl (B) wearing flamboyant clothing and dramatic make up as we want to portray later in the video that Girl (A) wants to be like Girl (B). We thought about Girl (A) applying a lot of make up which will seem child like, this will show the audience that girl (A) is imagining her relationship with the boy and she is unhappy in her life.
We still want Michaela to be Girl (A) as she has had previous acting experience which will benefit our production as there are a range of emotions within our music video. We have decided amoung our group that Jessica will play the part of Girl (B) as we can imagine the girl looking like Jess.
To show the audience the difference between reality and girls (A) dream life we wanted to have the the dream life in colour, but we want the colours to be bright so we will use iMovie to enhance the brightness and contrast. We have also changed our location as we wanted to film in Brighton but after learning that Winter Wonderland will be open when we are filming we have decided to base some of our music video shots there. There will be many bright lights as it is a fun fair aswell. We wanted the reality shots to be black and white as it shows the unhappiness in her life and it contrasts the bright colours to the dull colours. This was inspired from Lily Allen- LDN.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Seven)

After having a long group discussion we felt that it was best if we did challenge the conventions of the song and pop music video, instead of portraying schizophrenia we decided to make the girl obsessed with the boy. This creates a twist on the 'normal' teenage love story which are usually shown in pop music videos for instance most of Taylor Swift videos. I think that we should have the song with the couple but then at the end make the audience see that she is obsessed with him and the relationship never existed, this reminds me very much so of 500 Days of Summer Expectations VS Reality although we would not edit it like the example on the right. I love the idea of Expectations VS Reality as in one image the couple is together and there interacting with one another but on the photograph opposite the man is by himself or the women is being friendly towards him. Kids in Glass Houses- Matters At All shows a woman's obsession with a man who she does not know her, the video is shown below.
Kids in Glass Houses Matters At All

However, I think that we should create an Alter Ego for the artist as we can have dramatic make up and flamboyant clothing which will convey that side of her as superior and independent. The realistic portrayal of the girl will not have as much make up but she will be 'girly'. I feel that this idea will suit our song as we wanted to challenge the pop genre which is shown by the girls obsession. Beyonce created an album which was inspired by an Alter Ego and the photograph on the left shows the natural and feminine Beyonce, which contrasts with the dramatic and powerful Alter Ego which conforms to the pop genre. I think we could use a split screen of the alter ego and the actual girl but I do not think that we should have a split screen throughout. I got this idea from Lauryn Hill- Doo Wop (that thing) music video (right) both of the screens are located in New York City although one split screen is set in 1967 and the other screen is set in 1998 which shows the difference in location, time, clothing and society.
Lauryn Hill- Doo Wop (that thing)

I think that close up shots of the artists faces and close up shots of certain features of the artist's face which suits the idea of the alter ego and it conforms to Andrew Goodwin's Dancing in the Distraction Factory "The demands of the record label will include the need for a lot of close up shots of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work.". Close up shots will create mystery and a shadow across the face will create and eerie feeling which is shown in You Me At Six- Save it for the Bedroom (right) and in the left still shot Swedish House Mafia Vs Tinie Tempah- Miama 2 Ibiza (left). Below are the videos to both of the still shots.
Swedish House Mafia Vs Tinie Tempah- Miami 2 Ibiza

You Me At Six- Save it for the Bedroom

We should use the editing technique Image in Image as it creates a sense of distortion and an illusion which suits the alter ego and the girl, I really like the affect of the image in image as we could add more clips in the video. We used Image in Image in our Year 12 opening to a film and we loved that we could fade in and out clips and make the clips transparent, it seems that in a lot of recent music videos there has been image in image such as Biffy Clyro- Booooom, blast and ruin (left) which is shown below.
Biffy Clyro- Booooom, blast and ruin

I think that the end shots of the video we should have one wide shot of the Alter Ego holding hands with the male character, after another wide shot of the actual girl holding hands with the same male character and then a split screen of both of the girls walking in to the shot alone and then a point of view shot (the actual girl) looking in front of her this represents that the alter ego was a figment of her imagination. In Pink- Sober the audience see that there is two of the same woman in one place at once which inspired me, the video is about being 'crazy' and dealing with problems such as depression. I think we should use this video as inspiration as I feel that the clothing and the editing will suit our music video.
Pink- Sober

Teenage Dream Ideas (Six)

After the music video conference yesterday Pete Fraser said that "music videos need to be visually memorable and worth repeat viewing" bearing this in I had a lot doubts about our chosen song and the narrative for our music video. We was recommended to do a song which was unknown, although it would have been easier to have done an unknown song I felt confident within our chosen song. To make our video memorable I think we should change some of our narrative such as, I believe that the lead girl in our video should be schizophrenic which would make her 'dream' of the relationship and it would be insightful to the illness.
Schizophrenia is a "mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of the process of thinking and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction. The onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with a global lifetime prevalence of around 1.5%. Diagnosis is based on the patient's self-reported experiences and observed behavior." Schizophrenia is explored in Hollyoaks with the character Newt and him seeing his alter ego Eli, this is a clip from the programme.

The girls illness would lead her to become obsessed with the boy and the life that she wants to have. We could show this in the beginning by a back shot of a girl picking up a frame and then a close up shot of the picture in the frame coming alive and it would be the alter ego and the boy, this would have included an element of voyeurism as the star is watching herself. Women becoming obsessed with men are shown in films such as He Loves Me Not and Obsessed, this is the trailer of them both.
He Loves Me Not Trailer


Obsessed

When wondering how we could portray her illness I thought of having quick shots and choppy editing which could show her time in Brighton which is her dream and her normal self and I thought about having a high angle shot spiraling down of the girl which could represent her coming to terms with the realisation of her illness. I wanted the girls alter ego to be very flamboyant in clothing such as bright colours and sequins which could portray her alter ego as over the top and it makes her stand out. At the conference we were shown Pete Fraser's favourite A Level music videos at the majority of them were performance. Bearing this in mind the alter ego could sing in the Brighton shots as well as the bedroom performance for instance when walking down the beach she could be staring at the boy and singing romantic lyrics which portrays her love for him. Also, the we could have two people in the video one who is the actual girl and the other girl would be her alter ego, I got this idea from Shakespeare's Sister- Stay.

I love the idea of having an innocent woman and an evil and flamboyant woman I thought that we could have an extreme close up of lip syncing.

The illness will be exposed near the end of the music video which will become a surprise to the audience as the last shot would be of the girl putting down the frame and it will be a different couple and then the camera turning 180 degrees to show her in an office with a middle aged man wearing a suit who is a psychologist who was the man in the real picture.
My group did not agree with my idea as they said that our idea was original but I think that our video conforms to the original Teenage Dream video as the setting, narrative and clothing are the same and the lyric. My group also said that the idea does not conform to the lyrics. However, I want to make our music video memorable and the video will conform in the beginning as it shows a couples relationship but ultimately it will challenge the conventions of a pop music video. I believe that through this story it will be unforgettable as it will surprise the audience and it will be a video that people could watch again and still be intrigued.

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.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Four)

In Rihanna's new music video Only Girl (In The World) there are particularly noticeable and brilliant editing techniques which I feel would suit our music video.
Below is the music video to Rihanna- Only Girl (In The World).

In the beginning of Teenage Dreams there are seventeen beats and we wanted to have a different shot for each beat, we thought we could have seventeen different shots of the couple with out showing the couple so the love would be through symbols for example, a couple holding hands, feet entangled with one another and a shadow of the couple hugging each other or holding hands and walking. In Rihanna- Only Girl (In The World) quick and fast face shots are used to match the beat (2.49-2.58), there are three shots which are repeated in this editing technique and the pace slows down, there are a wide shot of Rihanna standing on a pillar which symbolises her power, a mid shot of Rihanna on the pillar singing to the camera and a close up shot of Rihannas face looking down to represent her vulnerability. The repetitive shots make the audience want to know what are the shots which gains interest in the music video. The quick shots portrays Rihannas different emotions such as innocence which is shown in the close up shot when she is looking down, power in the wide shot when she is standing on a pillar with a long dress and promiscuosness which is portrayed in the mid shot because she is wearing a tight corset and her posture.
I think the use of the quick shots for our music video would be interesting because we can still show symbolisms of the love that the couple share and the audience will have time to see the shots instead of the seventeen shots which will be too quick.

Teenage Dream Ideas (Three)

We are filming in December and we expect that there will be bad weather when we are filming, so we have to prepare for the rain and wind because we are filming in Brighton which is far from where we live.

If there is rain when we are filming we shall have rain coats and umbrellas protecting the camera equipment the actors will only have coats and umbrellas when we are not filming, in case of continuity the actors will have to be wet when we are filming. Umbrellas may ruin the shots for example, we want to see the couples face looking at one another to portray their love and longing.

When we are editing I think we should have slow motion pace which is inspired by Labrinth- Let the Sunshine, I really liked the shot where Labrinth turns around which is in slow motion to show the rain dripping on his face and then the editing is fast when he faces the audience. Even though, in this still shot there is sun which represent the song lyrics "Let the sunshine, let the sunshine baby" however this shot is mostly rain. In Let the Sunshine I really like the close up shot which shows the side of Labrinths face which is a dark shadowed siluet, I really like this shot and I would like to replicate it however we may have to film in a studio to use the variety of lighting that we have in photography and then using Imovie we could green screen the location.

The rain could be used as pathetic fallacy which is used in Labrinth- Let the Sunshine, so we could use the rain towards the end of our music video to symbolise the girls heart break.

This is the video for Labrinth- Let the Sunshine which has the slow motion editing in the rain and a variety in weather and lighting.

However, if there is sunny or windy weather we will still film and edit the way we wanted our shots originally.

Teenage Dreams Ideas (Two)

We have decided that one of our locations will be at Brighton Beach because we wanted to have some shots of the couple walking hand in hand along the beach at night.
We want to film at Brighton Pier because we thought we could have an over the shoulder shot of the boy playing a game to win the girl a toy and then he could give the girl a toy, we liked this idea because it seemed like an American teen programme and most girls find that romantic. The photograph on the right is an example of the game where you can win toys, we would want something like this instead of the crane picking up a toy.

If we film at the pier there are many rides so we thought we could film close up shots of the rides and the couple on the ride.
This idea was inspired by Pink- Who Knew video were the couple are on the ride.

This video is filmed in a fun fair with the couple looking happy when they are walking together, although when they are on rides together the boy looks unhappy and the girl is trying to comfort him. Filming on a ride will be very difficult because we will worry about lighting so we will film in the day but it may ruin our continuity because we wanted to film at late afternoon or night, we are going to be using a hand held camera on a fast ride so the camera may not completely focus on the couple and we will have to go on the ride about four times to try different angles and distances. However, if filming on the ride does not work we could film shots of the rides and have the couple standing in front of the camera.

We have been discussing some of our camera shots that we think we should have. We liked the idea of filming at the beach and placing the camera on the ground among the pebbles and rocks and having them in focus and gradually getting blurry and the couple will be in the background, we thought this will be a good shot because we do not want all of our shots just to be about the couple even though it is a love song but in this shot they will still be in it but less noticeable so we will still be conforming to the lyrics. On the left side is an example of the shot although the rocks nearest to the camera will be in focus.

We have been thinking about the lighting as well because when we were deciding what song we wanted to do the group really liked Beyonce-Halo and when we watched the video we all loved the lighting in the video because it was really bright and it seemed like a fantasy.

This is Beyonce- Halo music video were the bright lighting is mainly used.

I really love the use of the bright lighting in the video because it makes the relationship seem like an hallucination or a dream and it defiantly conforms to the lyrics "I can see your halo" the lighting could represent a deeper meaning to the song as it could be interpretted that the man died. When I watched Kate Nash- Foundations I noticed that the same bright lighting was in a close up shot of the couples hands (photo on the right), it seems like the bright lighting is used in more female artists videos when the lyrics are about love for example, Beyonce- Halo, Kate Nash- Foundations and Katy Perry- Teenage Dream. The bright lighting could symbolise womens 'dream' relationship so I think we should try and include it in our music video, although we will have to research how to do it because we may not have the resources.

For the narrative in our video we have decided to have a girl dreaming about what is happening in the video rather than it happening but we want the audience not to notice it so we will have to make it flow, although we shall include some subtle changes like the lighting. Also, we want the video to make it to have a 'love at first sight' vibe so we thought we could have a split screen of the couple looking at eachother. There is an example of an high angle shot showing the couple looking at each other in Paramore- That's What You Get.

We really liked the idea of a split screen to show both the girl and boy point of view looking at each other and we will include the theme of 'love at first sight' in this shot which was inspired by the photograph on the left or we could have a high angle shot of the boy and girl looking at each other and the split screen could be seen as a barrier to reality and her dream which was inspired by the screen shot on the right. I love the emotions of love, peace and mellow in the photo on the right side and the idea of 'love at first sight' in the photo on the left.

We should film both shots and edit both shots to a split screen to see which shot suits our video best, although we are going to have to research how to do split screen on Imovie.

For our music video we have thought of three possible endings and we have decided to film all three and then when it comes to editing our video we will decide which ending we prefer.

The first ending is the girl coming out of her fantasy and the boy will walk towards her and then the camera will cut, this will leave the audience wanting more because it is cliff hanger and the audience can make their own minds up about what happened.

The second ending will be a split screen of the boy and the girl point of view shots looking at each other and then the boys girlfriend will come, this may make the audience disappointed or it could make the audience want more.

Finally, the third ending will be the boy walking towards the girl and then we may have a close up shot of the girl looking happy but then we will show the boy walking past her, this challanges the usual pop genres 'happy ending'.

In our performance part of the music video we were considering having Valentines day cards scattered on the floor with the girl laying on the ground or standing up and singing.

When we thought of the idea we realised that Paramore- The Only Exception had a similar setting however we can not embed the video to our blog so this is the link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7J_IWUhls&ob=av2e, but the screen shots on the right and left side are from the video. We thought of having heart shapped confetti, love letters and valentines day cards which symbolises the lyrics in our chosen song Katy Perry- Teenage Dream "Now every February you'll be my valentine", though we could have a high angle shot of the girl laying down we could have the girl standing up and spinning around throwing the confetti and cards in the girl we could film this in our schools photography room because we could use the studio and we could use a high tripod on a table and film her dancing which conforms to the pop genre.

Also, we have decided that we want to have our main performance of the girl singing and dancing around in her bedroom like Taylor Swift- You Belong With Me.

We all really liked the idea of the girl dancing and singing in her bedroom because we feel that it represents our song (Katy Perry-Teenage Dream) really well because the main theme to the song is really like a teenager in love and we want our video to be romantic and 'cheesy'. We wanted the girl to be performing to her self in the mirror and lip syncing to the song, so this does not portray her as Katy Perry it just shows her as a normal teenager, we could even have a close up shot of the girl turning on the radio but we ruin the continuity if we keep on going back to the girl singing in her room.

In the screenshot on the left we really liked the idea of the girl singing in to a hair brush because it reminds us of many romantic films. . We thought of adding the performance scene one quarter of the way through the video so the girl can be wearing different outfits when singing in the mirror to show she is getting ready for her date.

In the beginning of Adentures of Babysitting the lead girl is singing and dancing to a love song in the mirror whilst getting ready and she jumps on her bed and she starts singing. This is the opening to Adventures in Babysitting from 0.11 to 1.48 is the dancing and singing in the girls bedroom.

I really like that the dance moves all relate to the song which is The Crystals- Then he Kissed Me for example, the screen shot on the right shows the girl dancing to the lyric "then he asked me to be his bride" the girl put her curtain on top of her head for it to represent a brides veil and she walks like she is walking down the aisle. I love that all of the dancing is all high energy and jumping around, I think we should resemble this dancing in our music video because I think the energy and spirit will work well in our video. Also, I really like her 'girly' bedroom which is portrayed by the baby pink and pink furniture, carpet and decoration this reinforces her feminity. We should also have many pink objects in the bedroom that we will be filming in because it will show it is the girls bedroom and I think we should have a photograph of the boy or the couple in her bedroom.

Finally, for our performance shots we want to have a shot in a shape of a key hole to make the audience feel like they are intruding on the girl and we want to make the audience feel like they know the girl. The screen shot on the left which is from Paramore- That's What You Get gave us inspiration for this shot and we were thinking about having an over the shoulder shot of a young girl or a boy looking in the key hole and then having a point of view shot in the eyes of the child seeing the girl dancing and singing. In our group we were trying to think of ways of how we could create this shot, I thought we could create this shot by placing a black piece of cardboard over the lense of the camera. However, we are going to have to experiment and research on how to create this shot.

Teenage Dreams Ideas

Originally we had two ideas of where we could film we thought about Brighton or Bournemouth, the majority of the shots will be filmed at the beaches so we wanted to find a beach that we thought will suit our video. In the end we decided to film in Brighton,the picture on the right is of Brighton Beach. We liked that Brighton had pebbles instead of sand so the rough contrast and scale of the pebbles would we very interesting. We think that Brightons club scene would suit our 'pop' genre as club lighting is usually very bright and if we go to Brighton on a weekend the clubs will be busy. We really liked the architecture in Brighton as there is a contrast of modern buildings, old buildings like the Royal Pavillion and vintage shops. Plus, Brighton will be better for us to go there as it takes 1 hour and 45 minutes whilst driving and 45-1 hour on a overground train.
We believe that the song is about a girl feeling like she is a teenager again because she feels like this man is her first love, first kiss and she wants everything with him hence the title 'Teenage Dreams', we want our narrative to be about a couple and portraying their love for one another.
When reading the lyrics and peoples opinions about the song we became aware that this song was controversial as a lyric is "Let's go all the way tonight, No regrets, just love" which could be interpreted that the couple are going to have sex. It is controversial because the song is about teenagers in love and people think the song it promoting teen sex because there was an implied sex scene in the music video. However, many people do not agree including our group, this is an opinion from some one on Song Meanings http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858836257/ "She's not promoting teenage sex. The song is about two adults. She's singing about how her boyfriend makes her feel like a teenager" This could be interesting for us to get other peoples opinions about the song who are a range of ages. This could be a limitation for us because people may disagree with the lyrics and we do not want to imply a sex scene.

We thought about having an old couple who was in their 60s-70s reversing time to when they were younger, our inspiration was Jason DeRulo- What If

We really liked the shot of the clock reversing which is at 0.56, we thought we could do a close up shot of the clock rewinding time and then a wide shot or a mid shot zooming out to show the girl getting ready for there date. Also, we liked that the end was at the beginning and the music video matches the lyrics.

We liked the idea of showing the couples life together, this is inspired by John Lewis advert.

I loved that the advert shows the womans life as a baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult and an old women. I love the emotions portrayed in the advert because it is happy and the audience see the process of aging and the process of the couples relationship, though with our music video we would reverse time. However, a limitation of showing the reverse of time is the time period because we would have to have a location which did not seem modern and because we want to film in Brighton which is a large populated place we cannot control what people in the background would be wearing.

For the lyric "You are my missing puzzle piece" we wanted a puzzle of the couple and for the pieces to come together to represent that the couple is 'one'. On the right side is an example of a custom made jigsaw pieces, we could purchase the puzzle from http://www.jigsaw2order.com/. We would shoot this scene by a high angle shot and leaving the camera rolling and match the pieces together, we would have to edit this to make it seem like it flows instead of jumping. I really liked the idea of the puzzle piece because the lyrics match the idea, this may look a little bit animated however we do not have the computer software to make animations.
Although, we are using Kate Nash- Foundations as inspiration to make this scene seem animated.

We really love the socks curling in to eachother at 1 minute and 10 seconds because it symbolises love or the man is over powering in the relationship because his sock dominates. Also, the toothbrushes moving away from eachother symbolises the seperation. Also, I really like the bright light shining on the couples hands at 1 minute and 2 seconds, I think we should try and shoot this scene because our location is on a beach and it would make our video seem more like a 'dream'.

To gain inspiration for our video or to include in our video I think we should film many couples talking about how they met, most of these couples would be middle aged or older to talk about their life together. Also, we should ask people who are teenagers in love before we storyboard so we could get inspiration or to know how we should portray the love story. Our inspiration for this is the movie Paper Heart (2009) it is a film about a girl who does not believe in love and she travels asking people how she met their partner.

The peoples whose story I loved the most in the film is from 3 minutes and 37 seconds till 7 minutes and 57 seconds. I found this story really romantic and interesting because in the beginning they both talk about divorce, the scene later talks about the women meeting her future husband on her first day of work, her boss forced her to go on a date with him and a week or two later there it was heavy raining the women bought new Gucci shoes which cost a lot and the man told her to wait under shelter and he drove his Jeep on the steps under the porch and he told her to "Get in" and he drove her to her car. Also, I think the puppets which are re-creating the story is a brilliant idea because it reinforces their youthfulness when they fell in love. I think we should use this as inspiration to find a romantic story and we could film a couple talking about how they met or the girl watching this part of the film in her living room and then go in to the narrative.

Lyrics to Katy Perry- Teenage Dream

These are the lyrics to Katy Perry- Teenage Dream.

You think I'm pretty
Without any make-up on
You think I'm funny
When I tell the punch line wrong
I know you get me
So I'll let my walls come down, down

Before you met me
I was a wreck
But things were kinda heavy
You brought me to life
Now every February
You'll be my valentine, valentine

Let's go all the way tonight
No regrets, just love
We can dance until we die
You and I
We'll be young forever

You make me
Feel like
I'm living a Teenage Dream
The way you turn me on
I can't sleep
Let's runaway
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

We drove to Cali
And got drunk on the beach
Got a motel and
Built a fort out of sheets
I finally found you
My missing puzzle piece
I'm complete

Let's go all the way tonight
No regrets, just love
We can dance until we die
You and I
We'll be young forever

You make me
Feel like
I'm living a Teenage Dream
The way you turn me on
I can't sleep
Let's runaway
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

I might get your heart racing
In my skin-tight jeans
Be your teenage dream tonight

Let you put your hands on me
In my skin-tight jeans
Be your teenage dream tonight

You make me
Feel like
I'm living a Teenage Dream
The way you turn me on
I can't sleep
Let's runaway
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

When reading the lyrics we immediately thought of many ideas and symbols for our music video for example, "You think I'm funny when I tell the punch line wrong" we thought of the girl telling a joke in front her group of friends and the love interest is the only one who is laughing. During the line "My missing puzzle piece" we thought of having an aerial shot filming a puzzle set which has a picture of the couple, when filming we would put one piece together and then we would edit it to make it seems smooth. Our inspiration for this idea is Kate Nash- Foundations as she includes animation in the video to create two tooth brushes moving next to each other as a symbol of love. Also, we thought of having an older couple looking back on their relationship because the song speaks in past tense, the song expresses the artist feeling like she feels like she is a teenager again "You make me feel like I'm living a Teenage Dream" which expresses that her boyfriend is her first love and first everything.