Vox Pox

Vox Pox Questions:

1. What would you expect to see in pop music video?
2. What type of music video do you prefer to watch; narrative concept or performance?
3. What do you think would work well with this song?
4. What music channels would you expect to see a pop music video in?
5. How do you think women should be portrayed in pop music videos?

Themes

Feminism/Male gaze would be incorporated in our music video through the attractive female character who is the interest of the male character. Post-feminism we will also incorporated a post-feminism view through our music video by making the main female character appear dominant compared to the male characters.

Post-modernism: We want our music video to mirror a film style because we mainly want to focus the narrative. We will be paying homage to movies such as ‘Loser’ (2002) and Katy Perry’s TGIF music video.

Romance: There is a bit of romance in music video as it’s about the main male trying to pursue his interest in a girl at his school.

Comedy: We are making the video humorous by using stereotypical characters and over exaggerating some of their actions.  

Production Skills

Production skills

- Leave time for errors.

- Know my target audience fully.

- Plan thoroughly.

- Organise my time well.

- Have enthusiasm, dedication and passion for my work.

- Develop very good directorial skills such as being assertive.

- Find reliable performers.

- Make the lip-syncing (if any) as convincing as possible.

- Obtain a good research background.

- Utilize everyone's skills to my advantage.

- Use various suitable locations to make my video unique.

- Frequently use an outsiders perspective of my work in progress.

Shots to be used:

-Extreme Long Shot.
-Long Shot.
-Medium Long Shot.
-Medium Mid-Shot.
-Medium Close-Up.
-Close-Up.
-Extreme Close-Up.
-Over the shoulder shot

 Camera Techniques:

FRAMING- Where people, props etc. are placed within the frame (the composition)

ANGLES- High angle/ birds eye view (filmed from above)

Low angle/ worms eye view (filmed from below)

MOVEMENT- pan/ panning (Camera moves on pivot, left and right)

Tilt (Camera moves up and down on its pivot, pan up/ pan down)

Track/ Tracking Shot (Camera attached to moving object to 'follow the action')

Shot reverse shot (a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other)
Short take (Shot lasts for a short time)

Long Take (Camera lingers on the frame)

Editing:

Quick cuts- Shot moves rapidly from one frame/ shot to the next.

Fade- One shot fades away to black then another fades in.

Dissolve- One shot fades away as another fades in.

Wipe- A shot is literally wiped off screen by another.

Slow/ Fast motion- A sequence is slowed down/ sped up.

Flashback -A scene or sequence  that is inserted into a scene in "present" time and that deals with the past. The flashback is the past tense.
Focus- The sharpness of the image. A range of distances from the camera will be acceptably sharp. Possible to have deep focus, shallow focus.

Focus in, focus out: a punctuation device whereby the image gradually comes into focus or goes out of focus. 

Music Channels That Would Exhibit The Music Video

This channel is know for premiering new music video's therefore it would probably be the first channel we would exhibit our music video to as its the channel audiences go to if they want to watch new releases. If our music video proves to be popular on this channel we will then distribute to other music channels.

4music is available on Freeview, virgin media and sky, because its widely available it  attracts music aimed at a mainstream audience which means our music video will attract a big audiences if played on this channel. 

In order for our music video to be distributed to a worldwide audience we would have to exhibit it to channels such as MTV as the channel is available in many countries. The channel attracts a young audience because it plays popular music and reality TV shows which interest teenagers. This channel would be ideal for our music video as we would be attracting a young mainstream audience.

All these channels are aimed a mainstream audience therefore they all play pop music videos as its arguably the most mainstream genre. Consequently my target audience will be attracted to the music video.

Locations for filming

High School- The main location we will be using is the school, as our narrative involves school children. The video is aimed at a young audience, they'll be able to relate to this location as they spend most of their time there.

Bedrooms: Alot of the scenes are going to take place in characters bedroom as its where most teenagers spend their time.

Park: We thought we would use a park scene as a place where the characters spend their free time as this would be a true reflection of what young people do.

Front door scene: In this location we're going to show a party happening in the background and the geek trying to get into the party but he gets refused.

Street: in the street scene we're going to show the geek going to the party and running home.

 Media Room - For some performance scenes we'll be using the green screen which is located in the media class room, we'll be using the green screen as we want to change the background of the performance to suit our preference. 

Props and Equipment

Props and costumes

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Production Log

After taking the photo's I made the scrap book. I wanted it to be comical so I tampered with the photo's and added things that I thought the geek would think of.