Women in music videos

I have just been watching a programme on BB3 called Music, Money and hip hop honeys. Which talks about if the women in music videos are take advantage of, and just used as sexual images, but also how the women in the music videos enjoy what they do, and how they aspire to be in the big hip hop music videos and they dont care what they do to get there, they will go to extremes such as breast implants and bum implants just to look like the best, and for someone to look at them and think thats the girl I want in my video.
However this does effect the girls that dont want a part in this because it sets a steryotypical view in mens heads of the fact that this must be how girls behave, wanting to show off whetever skin they can and doing loads of dirty dancing.
The realism is that you dont want personality in a music video, people look for big bums and big boobs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x1wz7

Really good effects

I love some of the effects in this video, such as at 2:50 into the song, Lily Allen is pushing 'card board cut outs' of the girls over, but I think it looks really good how they have the girls looking as if they are on pieces of card and then the either fall forward or bend over as Lily Allen either folds them over or pushes them over.
I also really like the camera angle at 2:30 into the video, where he is standing closer to the camera and Lily Allen is a bit further back, this is something I would want to try and recreate in our music video.

Inspiration

This example of an as coursework media video has given us some ideas for some camera angles we want to try and recreate when we film our last scene.
Two minutes into the video, there is a camera angle where the girl in the video walks over the camera and then the camera follows her so the angle is the upside down once she has walked over the top of the camera.
We were thinking about how we would do this and what we have thought is if someone lays down on the floor holding the camera on one side and then doing a pan across as she walks over the top and the over to the other side.
However we would adapt it to fit with our video, so we would have the girl in our video skipping towards and over the camera.

Album Title

We have decided that as our album name we will use one of the names of the tracks we have made up, just becase most pop albums normally take the name of their album from one of their album tracks.
We have decided to call our album 'Not so pretty in pink' because we think it fits perfectly with the image of the album and the feminist feel of it and we want this message to be shown through every inch of the digi pack.

Filming

Last Thursday we continued filming for our music video, we filmed in two locations, the photography studio in school which is the location we are using to do editing for our split screens and point of view shots, after uploading what we filmed it looked really good and we cant wait to start using final cut pro to unleash our editing ideas on.
The second location we went to on Thursday was the Kings Head Pub around the corner from school, we were really lucky to be allowed in there to film and all the staff in the pub were really nice and helpful, and we were even allowed to film from behind the bar! We were a bit doubtful about how the lighting would look once we uploaded because it was quite dark, but surprisingly the quality of what we filmed looked really good and we are all really happy with what we have done so far.
This leaves us with one more location to film in, which is Enfield playing fields and then we can start on our editing.

Album track list ideas

1.Knock 'em out
2.Not so pretty in pink
3.The Sailor
4.it's not me (it's you)
5.Barbie vs Ken
6.Late nights and glitter
7.Don't dress me up
8.How I rock
9.Leave with me
10.Get drinking
11.London town girl
12.When I getta rocking
13.Louder
14.In the bar
15.Money please

My Digi Pack Ideas

I have been thinking about the picture on the front of my digi pack and have got my main inspiration from a photo shoot Lady Gaga has done for her single paparazzi.
The idea of having a police line up as the background, and then having the 'artist' of our single on the front pulling a really cheeky face and holding up a white piece of card with the album title on it and her name.
This idea has come from our use of the whole feminist ideas, and including the WW1 we can do it women's posters, and how all the women got arrested during the suffragette movement protesting for women's rights, and i thought having her standing in front of a line up background would be quite symbolic, but then contrasting this with using a lot of red in the make up and clothing, such as having her wearing bright red lipstick and having red bows in her hair.

Narrative

A narrative is a story that is created in a constructive format (as a work of speech, literature, pictures, song, motion pictures, television, video games, theatre, musical theatre, or dance) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events.
For general purposes in semiotics and literary theory, a "narrative" is a story or part of a story. It may be spoken, written or imagined, and it will have one or more points of view representing some or all of the participants or observers. In stories told orally, there is a person telling the story, a narrator whom the audience can see and/or hear, who adds layers of meaning to the text non-verbally. The narrator also has the opportunity to monitor the audience's response to the story and modify the manner of the telling to clarify content or enhance listener interest. This is distinguishable from the written form in which the author must gauge the readers' likely reactions when they are decoding the text and make a final choice of words in the hope of achieving the desired response.
Whatever the form, the content may concern real-world people and events; this is termed "personal experience narrative". When the content is fictional, different conventions apply. The text projects a narrative voice, but the narrator belongs to an invented or imaginary world, not the real one. The narrator may be one of the characters in the story. Roland Barthes describes such characters as "paper beings", and fiction comprises their narratives of personal experience as created by the author. When their thoughts are included, this is termed internal focalisation: when each character's mind focuses on a particular event, the text reflects his or her reactions.

My digi pack idea

This is the plan i have written down for my Digi pack idea, it is just describing the front cover of the four sided Digi pack i am going to have, I have decided to include the 'artist' of our single on the front cover of the Digi pack because this is what most pop albums have, the background is going to be a police line up, due to being relevant to our feminist approach, and how all the suffragettes got arrested in the late 19th century for protesting for women's rights.
I then want to contrast this with the colours I include in the make up and clothing of the artist in the picture, such as red because it is a very provocative colour, related to sexuality a lot.