Practise make up

Before we started filming we decided to practice making up the main actress in the video. We tried out different make up and clothing styles to get our fantasy look that we want in the video. Here are a few pictures we took that shows the look we was going for!

Music video - The story behind it

As you may have seen from earlier posts we have decided to use a fantasy based theme for our music video. This will be portrayed in a woodlands setting that we have chosen. The video will start with a man leaving his place of work after a hard day. He sets of on his journey home entering a train station. His standing waiting for his train whilst felling tired and physically exhausted. As he stares over to the opposite platform he sees a figure of a fantasy like girl glaring at him. As a train passes by he desperately try's to still see her but when the train disappears she is gone. He appears to put this sight down to his tiredness and doesn't really understand what he has just seen. As time goes on and he is sitting at home that evening, he nods of on the sofa to enter a mysterious dreamworld. As he is mesmerized wondering where he is he sees the mysterious figure of the girl that he had seen earlier. She tempts him to follow her as she disappears into the woods. As he attempts to follow her he sees weirder things. For example he sees a girl sitting down with a pram dressed unusually. He also sees two other girls tempting him to go deeper into the woods. As the scenario just gets weirder and weirder for the main character ( the boy) he sees two women sitting on a log just talking also dressed unusually. He carries on walking and the girls are there again teasing and taunting him. He starts picking up the pace as he starts to get frantic. He slumps down next to a tree as he tires and gets overwhelmed by the events. As he is slumped the girls come round the tree and kiss him on the cheek as the main girl comes round and stares into his eyes. As she leans in to kiss him and their lips touch, he wakes up back in his living room, shocked and confused at what has just happened, and he is left with the lipstick marks on his cheek, raising the question did it really happen?

Music video Analysis

analysis:
- Starts in audition room (flash dance)
- Speed of dance increases as song increases
- Inter-text analysis
- Lots of dancers large number of people
- A lot of focus on physique
- 1st minute don't know what she looks like
- Released intwined with Bridget Jones Diary
- Empowerment of women
- Song and dance routine
- Sequence from a musical
- Iconographic approach using a vinyl
- Judges look very formal, looking down their nose at the dancers
- Diegetic noise of footsteps on floor, traffic outside
- Fragmented body shots
- Creates a sense of anticipation, an Enigma
- Patronising judges; "In your own time'
- Camera position : Notion of looking
- Foot level shot
- Movement of the camera to keep with the dancing
- Over the shoulder shot
- Movement of the camera matching the lyrics
- People flocking giving her star status
- Close-up shows her winning over hardest to please
- As the chorus starts people running in creating a carnival style
- Always framed in the centre of the shot
- Judges represent patriotic order
- She breaks that down by kissing him
- Changes of clothes
- She's placed higher up than other dancers
- Yellow hot pants emphasises her physique
- She leads the way
- American theme all the time
- Leather jacket symbolic of rebellion
- Dancing of cars
- Tightly framed
- Choreography + camera echoing lyrics
- Low angle shot, medium long shot, chromeaky shot
- Dark, raining, dancing wet

Copyright letter

Dear Copyright Holder, Rulin Records

We are A level students at Wilmington Grammar School for boys and we are writing to ask for your permission to use on of your tracks. The track that we would like to use is ‘American Dream’ by Jakatta.

If you were kind enough to let us use your track it will be used as the song for a video that we have to film for our A level Media coursework. We also have to produce an album cover and a magazine advert for the artist.

If we receive your permission, this track would ONLY be used in an educational context and be viewed by our media class, our teacher and the OCR exam board moderator. It would NOT be released to a large audience or uploaded to any public video websites.

The artist and your company would of course be fully recognised throughout preproduction and the final video itself. A copyright notice, with wording supplied by you can be included in the records of the project. If this is required, please send full details.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Daniel Jeffery, Chelsey Martin, Hannah Sealy

what to use in our video?

For our music video we decided to use fantasy as the main theme for our video. After choosing this theme we decided to look for certain costumes and scenarios that we could use in our video. also after choosing this theme we decided to use a woodland setting to shoot our video

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