Costumes Part 1.

These were the final decisions made on costume for the first part of our shoot. 

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Planning of video shoot

List of locations:
1) Church (Stanmore) - opening scene in black and white
2) Studio (Stanmore) - Close ups of Chloe in different outfits
3) Bedroom (Chloe's bedroom) - Throwing clothes and shoes out of wardrobe
4) Street or open space (Eve's area) - Walking down with different outfits and shoes.

Main Props:
Four to five different pair of shoes for Street scene  (Eve's and Chloe's)
Bright make-up
Four to five different bags
Various colourful clothes
Big statement jewellery

Props for all scenes
1) Church
-A shoulder padded top (any colour)
- Plain black trousers
- Chloe's black heels
-  Hair all back
- Minimum make-up
- Main shoes which will be 'worshiped' in scene (Eve's)

2) Studio in Stanmore
First shot - DT block female mannequins (2)
Mannequin 1 - Bright pink dress (Eve's)
Mannequin 2 - Sequined dress (Chloe's)

Second shot- Face shot
Hair up
Plain T-Shirt (Chloe's)
Big statement jewellery (Chloe's)
Make-up, like famous Twiggy shot

Third shot
Slogan top (Chloe's)
Black tutu (Chloe's)
Bright make-up
Hair all pinned back
Shoes - plain

Fourth shot
A big mess of random clothes, shoes and bags.

3) Bedroom *performance*
White top
Leggings
Hair in rollers
Make-up is plain and simple

4) Streets/ open space
Outfit one
Basic black top
Plain black trouers
Black waist coat
Blue tights underneath trousers for colour
Shoes with red sole (Eve's)
Sequined belt

Outfit two
Leopard print leggings
Ankle boot heels (Eve's)
Bright pink jumper
Plain black T-Shirt

Outfit three
Leopard print faux fur jacket
Bright blue tights
Nude colour wedges

Outfit four
Tartan print tights
Black military style boots (Chloe's)
Blue and black prom dress
Black T-Shirt

Outfit five
Tartan print tights
Black military style boots (Chloe's)
Blue and black prom dress
Black T-Shirt
Black sequined belt
Red and blue big chain necklaces
Bright pink fluffy cross body bag

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Deconstruction of Madonna's Material Girl

This the video from Madonna’s single ‘Material Girl’, released in 1895 and is taken from her album ‘Like a Virgin’. The video was directed by Mary Lambert, who also directed videos for Annie Lenox, Mick Jagger and Janet Jackson. She also directed Madonna’s videos for Borderline, Like a Virgin, Like a Prayer and La Isla Bonita. Throughout these videos you can see how Madonna’s star text, something Goodwin says is demanded by the record company, was being developed through her music videos, as her appearance in all of the videos except for La Isla Bonita was as her dressed in the typical clothes that we would have expected to see Madonna in the 1980s. There is also a reoccurring theme of the car in the videos for Borderline, La Isla Bonita and Material Girl. The song has become synonymous with Madonna, being one of her biggest selling hits and she now even has a clothing range called Material Girl.

There is a clear relationship between the lyrics and the visuals in this video, with her being surrounded by expensive material things, such as diamonds. The relationship between the music and lyrics is strong and does help to reinforce what she is telling us and what she is singing about. It also reinforces the message at the end that she doesn’t pick the man just because he gives her lots of expensive things. There is also a relationship between the music and the visuals as this is a pop video, and so the video is fun and tongue-in-cheek.

The key part of this video is the interstitial references, where Madonna is clearly recreating scenes from Marylin Monroe’s performance of the song ‘Diamonds are a girls best friend’ from the film ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’. In the videos both women have blonde curly hair, a floor length pink dress on a elbow length dinner gloves on. Aside from the women’s presentation the setting for the videos are also similar. They are both in large blank rooms with red backgrounds and red steps. They are also surrounded by men dressed the same and the men in both videos are holding red hearts at certain stages of the video. Madonna also goes as far as to copy the dance routine used in the original.

What we want to take from this video when were making ours is the fact that she has a story before the music begins, something that we want to do in our video. We have also taken ideas from this in recreating the shots, like she has with the ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ shot.

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Location 1.

This is the location for the first part of our shoot. WE decided to shoot in this park in Dollis Hill as it was close to one of the groups houses and therefore easy and convenient for us to get to. We also liked the park because it was relatively quite during the day, although with it being a public place there was still some people around which made it difficult to shoot. We thought that this was a good place to shoot as the scenery was quite simple but still looked pretty and effective. 

 Problems with where we were shooting: 

Because we were shooting in a public place there were people that were coming in our way of shots, however this problem was minimal as we shot in the middle of the day on a weekday, when not many people were in the park. 

Where we was shooting was close to a road so we had traffic noise on some of our shots, restricting the amount of natural noise that we could have in the video, however this was not really a problem as we didn't want to use any of the natural noise anyway. 

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Group Meeting 3

In this meeting we discussed ideas for costumes, locations and we decided that we needed to set out a shooting scedule so we knew when and where we would shoot each shot. We designed how we would set this sheet out and decided when and where each shoot would take place.

In this meeting we also discussed how we would neeed to write to the people who own the copyright to our song and ask for permission to use the track we had discussed. We also decided that we needed to continue to ook at other album covers and music videos so that we were sure that our video would be appropriate for this style of music. We agreed that between us we would look at Pink's video for 'Get The Party Started', Madonna's 'Material Girl' and Wigfields 'Saturday Night'.


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Behind the scenes Day 1

A few initial for costumes

These shots are some of the ideas that we have had for costume for our video.