Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Props and Equipment List

Props
- Smart clothing / Office wear for Noor
- Casual for the all performers
- Computers, Ofiice Scene
- Messy Room, Mobile Phone,
- Food, Tables and Chairs - Restaurant Scene

Equipment List
- Digital Camera
- Tripod and Digital Camcorder
- Adobe Premier
- Adobe Photo shop
- Studio Lights
- Spot Lights
- Green Screen / Tricaster

Monday, 18 October 2010

Vox pox questions

1) What do you expect to see in a music video?

2) Do you prefer a concept, narrative or performance or mixed?

3) Would you prefer close-ups or midshots of the performer?

4) Do you prefer a male or female performer and why?

5) What kind of video do you see with this track?

Monday, 11 October 2010

Research

I have spent a lot of time researching into the music idustry and various channels that broadcast music video and I have come to the conclusion that these few channels would be the best for streaming my music video.

Box
Interactive chart music channel. Includes track selection, playlist and charts. The Box lets you check out the UK's hottest new talent.

MTV
Formed in July 1999, MTV Networks Music is the world’s leading online music entertainment company, with 22 worldwide music destinations on the Web. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs.

Kerrang
Kerrang! magazine was published by Bauer Consumer Media in the United Kingdom. The magazine's name is onomatopoeic and refers to the sound made when playing a power chord on an electric guitar. Kerrang! commenced publication on 7 June 1981.

Storyboard

Our main idea is that our performer is having a bad day where everything is going wrong just like the lyrics state and then she see's her boyfriend and things instantly start to perk up for her life. At the end however she decides to ditch her boyfriend and have a night out partying with her girls.

Our main perfomer will be Noor in year 12, as she has the right image and her style is quite quirky and fun. Jack will be playing her boyfriend and we have also decided to have a guitarist in the video, Kurt, a friend from outside school will be playing that role. He has agreed to participate in the production.







Action Plan - Locations & Performers

Locations:
Harrow on the Hill -

Hyde Park -

St.James -

Trafalga square -

Performers -

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Stereotypes In Music - Gender

- Men are mostly dominant, aggressive and can be represented as independent, adventurous, unemotional and competent.
- Stereotypical gendered occupations such as males as firefighters/mechanics and women as cheerleaders/ waitresses
Examples of males are: 50 Cent - Candy Shop this video shows 50 Cent as him getting any kind of girl he wants and showing the women being used a sexual target, this suggests they are submissive and powerless.
- Women engaged in more sexual and passive behaviour and more explicit. They are represented as objects of sexual advances or as sexual objects this shows the negatives of stereotypes in music as it portrays women as sexually provocative, objects that dance, pose and look good for the males.
Examples of women are: Destiny's Child - Cater To You this video shows the reliance on gender roles and shows that women are just housewives and will do anything the men want them to, the lyrics also suggest of pampering husband's or boyfriends.
Feminism 1960/70's - A movement that questioned the position within patriarchal society and the 'domestic bliss'
- Serves to challenge and eliminate oppression and dominate gender imagery
- Emphasised women in media such as women as sexual objects, domestics in the home, inferior to men or women as virgins, mothers or promiscuous
Sexual Objectification and the Male Gaze
- Laura Mulvey 1975 defined voyeurism as erotic pleasures gained from looking at a sexual object. She also showed the presence of women solely for the purpose of display and their display is passive and objectified for a male gaze regardless of viewers gender. The voyeuristic treatment of the female body in 'male' videos such as dancing in the background, looking good, wearing tiny or little clothes boosting male ego's. Women connote to be looked and object of the 'male gaze'
Stereotypically 'Female' Occupations
- There are many music videos that emphasis the stereotypes of women occupations and an example of that is Britney Spears. She adheres to traditional gender stereotypes by taking on the roles of as sectary, air hostess and a waitress; each occupation emphasises highly sexualised costume and behaviours. Pink also shows this in the video U and Your Hand showing Pink as a boxer, mechanic, and sitting on the bed, balcony and in a park showing herself as a 'male gaze' but also showing her subverting to the stereotypes of women showing her working out in the gym and being a mechanic.
Post Feminism and the female gaze 1980's
- Re appraisal of feminist vales
- Does not strive for equality as this assumes men as better but they wish to surpass male achievements
- Objected to the theories which position them as objects of the 'male gaze' and identifies the 'female gaze' - women desiring men
- Women began to assert their right to dress and be sexually attractive