1950's style video

In our video we represent 50’s style with the mise-en-sence with the costume (big blue with white spots 50's style dress with a big white under skirt), make-up and hair (red lips and big beehive hair) , props ( our old fashioned 1950's mic) and locations (no modern cars, houses people ect). We also wrote the narrative which is funny is shows the main women Caro being strong enough to chase "the man" and not just sitting back and waiting for him to come her,  which was something new in the 50’s (barriers were pushed). We have Caro looking strong and beautiful; but she doesn’t look like a Barbie doll girl with a pink dress. Which is important for the 50’s look as women were longer just house wife’s but working and getting jobs earning there own money but still being lady like. In our target audience for our video we are aiming at women who were around in 50’s as well as middle age women and then younger women/ girls who are a bit quikie and interested in different styles and the vintage look and not just present day. Caro Emerald has a strong vintage 50’s, 40’s look in her music and costumes. 

 

locations

We have looked on Goole maps and found some good locations to film our video, we have to make sure our locations arent moduern as our video is set in the 40's and 50's.

we liked the old wall and cobbled steet we thought we could use this in one of our chase sences.

we liked these fountins we thought they would look good in the background of one of ours shots.

we like this street it has a 50's feel to it, there is also a grass square next to it which might be useful when filming. this street would be good to do one of our chase sences.

This is rocatillos where we are planning to do our 50's style spy sence, rocotillo's is a 50's style diner we will need to get permission to film inside of the diner.












We will also need to find some grass with trees to do other chase sences.

first take of filming performance

7/10/11 - We did our first take for our video we filmed our performance against the green screen. We got Ashley (who us playing our female lead role) ready by doing her hair and make-up and getting her into costume.

Then we played the song and she sang along to it while we filmed and directed her. The filming went well we got about four complete run throughs of the song as well as out opening shots like the putting on of lip stick. This footages will be used in between the narrative to make up out hole music video.

We also need some photos for our digipack and advert. we took some photos against the green screen with her all in costume.

Here are two of them we put them on white back grounds which we wont use for the digipack but looked good for now we used i movie to put the white back ground on these photos instead of the green screen i like the angles on these two photos.

make-up and hair test

This is how we are going to do the hair, in a bee hive with a hair tie round the head.

make-up we are going to put a lot of foundation all over the face, with blusher on the cheek.

The eyes will have a lot mascara, fake eyelashes and a lot of eye liner with a flick on the edge of the eye.

finishing touches a beauty spot and red lippy and using eyeliner to blacken off the eyebrow.

story boards

We started by thinking of ideas and mapping out where narrative and performace would go and the ideas for the narrative.

Then we started looking at timeings and how things would fit together but stuill not in greate detail

This is the first three pages of our final story board which we have gone to detial with timeing where the camera is going to be and what is happing.

plan

we are planning everything for our video, costume, props, story boards, location and actors.

Actors:
lead female- Ashly Brooks : (three costumes on the costume design page) 50's style dress, 40's dress and a trench coat. make-up black eyeliner, macro, blusher and foundation. hair, 50's a beehive, 40's a little quif and a ponytail.
lead male- Aron : black trousers, white shirt, black tie, black and white shoes.

props:
50's style mic
50's new's paper with eye holes cut into it
sings
old fashioned phone
instruments


locations:
rockatillos (50's style dinnor)
green screen
park, streets in bath or bristol
The Old Book Shop

Dancer costume

Dancer (female): Blue 50's stle dress with black shose. 50's style hair big curls and make-up black eyeliner and red lippy.

Daner (male): white shirt and black trousers and shoes.

we were going to have dancers but because of time we had to cut the dancers.

The male costume design

this is our costume for our male character 

we got the images from google

of the general look for men in the 50's

then used 'sketchbook Copic edition' to combine the images 

to make them into a mannequin for the male character

costume design

There are our designs for our costumes for the lead female role.

This is how we are going to do the hair and make-up, big bee hive like hair with curled fringe. back eyeliner round the eye, red lippy and a beauty spot.















This is our first dress in a 50's style dress, blue with white spots which was very in. we have then used clashing read accessories to go with it. for her shoes we have chosen black and white broges.
this dress is going to be for the performance.

This dress is 40's style and we have chosen red with white spots for this and clashing blue accessories. This dress is going to be for the narrative.

this is her spy outfit for the narrative. So its the same outfit with a trench coat over the top, a .... hat, glasses and a news paper with eye holes cut into it.

mood baord

This is our ideas in picture form to go with the 40's and 50's, hair, make-up, music... which will help us as we need to plan costumes, locations and actors for our music video to get the mise-en-scene right for our video.

songs we might use for our video

We have chosen songs which we really like and had good lyics but also didnt have a good video or a video we thought we wouldnt just copy as we had our own ideas for the video to go with the song.

• Song For Who Ever by The Beatuiful South
• Girl Put Your records on by Corrine Bailey Rae.
• That Man by Caro Emerald
• Raise Your Glass by P!nk
• Tear Drops On My Guitar by Talior Swift

In the end we went with That man by Caro Emerald as we felt we could change the video alot and we had alot of ideas to go with the sing. we didnt want to use a mainstream song which everyone knows as people would also know the video to go with it and they have a huge budget which we dont have.

caro emerald

That man- Its done in a cartoon style with her in black and white though she isn’t in cartoon style, she is in the cartoon. There is a lot of colour used in this video. The cartoon is really brightly coloured with a black background and she is black and white with a colour filter over the top. The lyrics have a nice story to them the video doesn’t really but is interesting to watch with all the colour and cartoon style.

A night like this- This video starts with a close up of a girls dress and leg which is a nice opening shot. There are fast cuts between the narrative and performance. I really like the birds eye view shot over the café. There is a lot of extreme close ups in this video which work well, of the lips, Caro singing, a little boat with a drink on it and a food with a really glitzy shoes on it getting out of a car. This video was set in a really nice location it was really beautiful and worked really well with the song.