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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Eg. Pussycat dolls-Buttons

 ACT:  Pussycat dolls
TRACK: Buttons
YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: sean garrett 
GENRE: r and b /pop
MAIN AUDIENCE: tween above 
Lyrics and visuals
lyrics and visuals. The lyrics and visuals match but not directly. words such as physical and sexy mamma where the band dance sexy . She also when she says physical touches her hood and body.
                                                    
                                                      Performance and narrative:
the performance in the video is nearly the whole video. There is little narrative to the video because the video is a performance video.  The performance is dancing throughout the video there is also lip synching , but these do not match the visuals apart from occasionally with the moves.
FX: 
fire green screen effect added which looks very fake and i dont think fits wits with the video. The fire is used in the video however it does make the video more complex. The fx used also could of been added using effects such as layering. It also looks like lights could of been used on the floor to create this effect.


Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Goals Allowed


Yeovil Town may not be making a big impact in the Championship but they are joining forces with a record label to launch their own girl band in a bid to climb the pop charts and attract a new generation of supporters to the club.
They are bottom of English football's second tier but will be the first football club to have a girl group and the plan is for the band – to be based on the Pussycat Dolls – to perform at home matches for the rest of the 2013-14 season.
Auditions for females aged 18 and over will be held at Huish Park on 4 December and the successful girls, a lead singer and a group of south-west-based dancers, will work with the Famous Company to record a single that will be released on iTunes. The record will raise money for Prostate Cancer UK – the Football League's official charity.


Costumes for narrative


For the narrative section the older PCD will be wearing smart dresses and heels corresponding with their colour which they wear when they are younger. Here are pictures of each and who will be wearing them.










Tilly - Black/Red
Jess - Purple
Millie - White
Poppy (me) - Pink
Abi - Blue

KH- Casting and Characters




After discussing our idea further, we decided that we are going to require 10 characters instead of 5. There will be 5 Pussycat Dolls as the formed and older group, and then there will be 5 younger Pussycat Dolls. The characters will need to show intertextuality and reference to the Pussycat Dolls themselves, so they must be a similar looking as possible to achieve verisimilitude.For the older versions of the PCD we intend to use ourselves and another 2 girls who we have approached and are willing to participate.

For the younger versions of the PCD, we created posters asking for year 7s and 8s to come to the media room and to audition. Luckily, a group of 5 years 8s turned up and we explained our idea to them and what would be required of them, as well as getting them to write down their school email and tutor group so that further contact could be made. All 5 girls were enthusiastic, and they have featured in our MiniVid for One Direction - One Thing, so we knew they would be reliable and enthusiastic to take part throughout the process.

PP-Audience Research


MEDIA PROFILE- PUSSYCAT DOLLS


Websites:
Wiki search for pussycat dolls
The Pussycat dolls have appeared on many Websites They have appeared on Wikapedia telling us general information about the pussy cat dolls .This is the website with the most views for the pussy cat dolls as it probably contains the most information. There however are other websites containing information such asStarPulse containing info on the bands latest news, twitter feeds and myspace.They have also appeared on promoting websites such as contact music this also contains biographies and background info on most bands widely. As well as these sites the pussycat dolls also appear in the news online such as the Express,scottish daily record and the daily mail. This does show our secondary audience due to the daily mail being aimed at a slightly older audience than Tweens.

Radio:
The pussycat dolls have been played and interviewed on many radio stations they are most commonly played on Last Fm.They have also been interviewed on radio 1 before they broke up last year. Another popular station they are played on is tune in. As they have however all gone there seperate ways now . At the time they were interviewed on several radio stations such as these now there is single interviews of the artists themselves.

Tv and Film:
X Factor performance
They have produced there own reality tv show calledgirlicious released in 2008. This was an american tv show before the girls became famous in Britain. This however was not a success and they only produced one series. They also produced Search for the next doll released in 2007. This also wasnt released in Britain however was popular in US. This however did restrict there audience. They also made a series of online shows produced by kim kardashian. They also have performed on tv shows such as loose women, this morning, Jonathon ross dancing on ice and x factor.


Jai Ho

As well as producing reality tv they also did star in films . They are most popular in englan for starring in jai ho at the end of slumdog millionaire. They produced the dance and song to choreograph at the end of the film due to Nicholes close relationship and her background with india. They also made a documentry called thepussycat dolls . They have also produced short films for openings at there concerts as well as there music videos.



Magazines and the paper:
They have featured in many magazines from last year and years before due to the sudden break through and popularity in Britain. They have featured in papers such as the daily mail, the sun , the mirror , the express and the independent. This a variety of audience however they all do cover different topics from the group such as the news , the big break up. The sun however focuses on the band being new and male gaze. they also have a lot of bad gossip on the break up. They have also featured on a lot of magazine covers such as Blender, OK!, FHM and Pride magazine. These all represent different audience however mainly the male audience due to fhm and blender being mens magazines this shows another audience to consider.




Coverage recently:
I asked peers at home at school and online if they thought there had been any coverage on the pussy cat dolls. My over all outcome was that today it mostly seems to be about nicole rather than the other girls they have there own careers now but not as big as hers. They however said around this time last year they remember the girls breaking up and releasing there final album they also said they remember the break up and everything that went with that within news papers and tv.

Covers of there songs:
They have had many covers of the songs such as being sung on x factor and many talents show by other famous people. There songs have been covered on x factor by girl bands and individual artists this does appear to a wider scope of people such as familys and younger children. They also have covers done world wide such as on youtube . There music is very mainstream and is today widley recognised.

PP-Set up Ideas


Set Up Ideas

We brainstormed a list of set-ups and ideas. We came up with more than we plan to use and we will film a lot of them and see which work most effectively.

  1. Bedroom
  2. Bathroom
  3. Garden
  4. Park
  5. Street
  6. Car park 
  7. Shops (Charity Shop)
  8. Milkshake bar
  9. Hairdressers
  10. Dance Studio 
  11. Performance
  12. Red Carpet 
  13. Limo
  14. Concert
  15. Stage
  16. Classroom
  17. Recording studio
  18. Club
  19. Hotel
  20. Festival
  21. Train Station
  22. Bus Station