Pictures Taken For Album Cover And Website

This is the picture i intend to use for the main album cover and the start page on the website. When we think of a suitable name for the band I'm going to rite it in pink fancy writing across the bottom part where it looks like a photograph.

All these pictures where edited slightly the usually crop and saturation heightened and one blurred and another turned pink on Picasa 3- this is because I find this program easier to use then the others I tryed as Coreal Paint Shop Pro can be confusing if it is a first time using it. Picasa offered me all the basics I needed to make these pictures look professional and to the standard a girl band would use.

We had our friend who does a photography class take these pictures with a proper photography camera. She took the pictures even though we decided the out fits , positions etc.

Making up the routine for our video...And Taking Pictures For Album

Above is a video of us making up the choreography, Below is the reasoning and research findings



We did alot of depth research in to the type of things that these artists put in to there music videos.
Props -
They are used frequently in the videos as both advertising ( Big Sexy Hair hair sprey in the 'Like me' video')
and as part of the dancing routine. For example Chairs are used by Pussycat dolls in more then one video and Girlicious are also sitting down in the corner of a boxing ring. Similarly Lady GaGa sits at and on pianos in here videos.

All the artists I've mentioned have used a ballet bar at some point in at least one of there videos.

As you can see we took pictures for our Album Cover and to upload on to the website , we all had black clothing on and a ballet bar :

So we are quiet clearly conforming to the normal conventions of a girl band already.



As i mentioned previously about the locations of the videos being in a boxing ring both bands also used this :
Although being able to record in a professional boxing ring is something out of our reach as we have already looked in to it - we could try and find a location which has similar connotations to a boxing ring?

Research In To The Choreography In Music Videos

The dancing in girl band music videos is not usually very tame. As 'sex sells' the females in music videos are usually wearing little outfits and dancing provocatively; here is a perfect example:


Not only is the song lyrics in the above video quite rude they are also semi naked dancing sexily around the male singer and with fire around them.
Also their clothes are all black and matching in some parts.
I also noticed that in every single pussy cat dolls video there is always a part where they are always walking forward in a row with the same foot forward- Almost like a march , I feel this walk is very empowering to women , although some might say what they are wearing and singing about is derogatory; i believe some aspects of the video represent the power within a female and her body holds power over men as the Pussycat dolls look irresistible in there videos.

Similarly Girlicious have matching skimpy outfits , all wearing black and doing the classic 'walk forward' which is used by almost every girl band. Also like Pussycat dolls they all take an item of clothing of at some point in the video.
Also the location in this video is a boxing ring again i feel this is empowering the women in the video saying they are fighters and feisty which i think is a good trait to have as a young women.
Ironically though Girlicious use alot of the Pussycat dolls themes and moves and even look similar as a band even though the song is about being an individual.

This below is a picture of our ballet bar that we will be using in our video.

Lip Syncronisation

Lip Syncing is a term used to describe something used by alot of artists both on stage but mainly in there music videos. Its also known as mimeing- it can be used to live up to musical singing ablity as their voices on the album can be auto-tuned to make them sound better.
When some artists sing live it is clear to see that they have been auto tuned because they can sound very different ( which is why most of them prefere to lipsync. ) With Lady Ga Ga this is easy to tell the difference because her voice live is alot more harsher with broader tones.


Notice her voice sounds alot nicer in this second video where she is lip syncing.




Its also used in performances where there is going to be alot of dancing and the vocal wouldnt sound proffesional is the singer was out of breath and panting down the microphone. How ever fans that have paid to watch there favourite artists perform arnt impressed when they find out they are faking it pretending to be live.
Also this allows adverage people who cant sing to pretend they can :