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 :

Asking For Permission

We sent an email to the record label 'Cherry Tree Records' to seek permission to use Lady GaGas song in the back of our video, as it will not be used for anything other then our corse work and wont be published it should be okay. Below is a copy of the email we sent.
Although Lady GaGA is now with a different music label we did our research and she was with Cherry Tree Records when she released Beautiful Dirty Rich so we thought it would be best to contact those.

They have not replied as of yet- so we will follow up with maybe a phone call if we can find there number.


Dear Madam, Sir.
My name is Kirsty Shakespeare and I am currently studying A Level Media at the New Academy Wolverhampton, England. My course enables me and my team to create our own music video. We have decided we would like to use Lady Gaga's Beautiful Dirty Rich as the backing track to our video, however, copyright laws state we must seek permission from the record label. I hope you will be kind enough to let us use this song, we assure you that our vidoe will not be published in anyway, or posted on the internet for any profit at all. Please e-mail back as soon as possible, Kirsty .

shakespearek04@newacademy.org.uk



I also copied and pasted the email in to a question and answers box to help get more feed back from the record label , here is a print screen of this

SONG LYRICS

These are the song lyrics to the video in which we are doing:.



Beautiful dirty dirty rich rich dirty dirty beautiful dirty rich
Dirty dirty rich dirty dirty rich beautiful
Beautiful and dirty dirty rich rich

We got a redlight, pornographic,dance fight,systematic
Honey but we go no money

Our hair is perfect, while were all getting shit wrecked, it's automatic
Honey but we got no money

Daddy I'm so sorry, I'm so s-s-sorry yeah,
We just like to party, like to p-p-party yeah,

Bang bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich
(dirty dirty rich dirty dirty rich beautiful)
Bang bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich
(beautiful and dirty dirty rich rich bang bang)

We live a cute life, soundfematic, pants tight, tug'n'plastic
Honey but we got no money

We do the dance right, we have go it made like icecream topped with
Honey, but we got no money
[Beautiful Dirty Rich Lyrics on http://www.elyricsworld.com/ ]
Daddy I'm so sorry, I'm so s-s-sorry yeah,
We just like to party, like to p-p-party yeah,

Bang Bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich
(dirty dirty rich dirty dirty rich beautiful)
Bang Bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich
(beautiful and dirty dirty rich rich bang bang)

A bang bang bang, bang bang bang, beautiful, dirty rich
A bang bang bang, bang bang bang, beautiful, dirty rich

Bang bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich
(dirty dirty rich dirty dirty rich beautiful)
Bang bang, we're beautiful and dirty rich
(beautiful and dirty dirty rich rich bang bang)

Bang bang
(dirty dirty rich dirty dirty rich beautiful)
Bang bang
(beautiful and dirty dirty rich rich bang bang)

Video Concepts

After in depth analysis of the 'Beautiful Dirty Rich' video by Lady GaGa we have came to the conclusion that the meaning behind this video is almost mocking the idea of the 'famous for nothing' life style for example people like Paris Hilton who are classed as socialites- whom pride them selves in being rich and glamorous .
These who literally have money to burn , as Lady GaGa is seen in this video pretending to smoke money whilst its burning.

Money is no object to these people hence why she is burning and rolling in it.
'Daddy I'm so sorry I'm so s,s,sorry yeah we just like to party like to p,p,party yea" This is showing that Lady Gaga in the video is spending dads money rather then working and earning her own , there for she doesn't appreciate it similar to these famous people like Nichole Richy and Peaches Gedolf.

Also it shows that rich and famous people are not as 'prim and proper' as we may think they also have a 'filthy' side that is wild and love to party just as much as we do except they have money to waste on doing it big.