Meeting 10

This lesson, our main focus was on organising both the costume and prop list. We also allocated each individual, from the group, to find items of clothing and props that could be used within our music video. We ensured to split the tasks evenly and the items that one could not find were allocated to someone who had these resources available to them. 
We made an individual list for everybody as each person had different items to organise. We then took pictures of the items we had available and showed one another on 'Facebook' (as we could not bring them into school). 

Statue

In this scene, one of the judges will be painted to visually look like a statue. The purpose of this is to convey the idea that the judge is not amused by the acts and is incredibly bored. To get the visual appearance, we will paint the judges skin with metallic paint and also spray paint their hair grey. The statue will be dressed in grey and we will need to ensure that the character remains stationary and incredibly still so they would appear to look as realistic as a genuine statue as possible. 

Mad Scientist

The costume for the 'Mad Scientist' in our music video is going to look like the image on the left. The character will be wearing a white laboratory coat which we will be borrowing from the chemistry department at our school. We will make the lab coat dirty by placing ash and stains which will hopefully give the visual look of the scientist previously carrying out experiments. We will backcomb the hair of the mad scientist as it will look like they have just been in an explosion involving chemicals during his latest experiment. We will spray paint his hair grey as scientist are usually associated of being retired ad old. The mad scientist will also be wearing thick lensed round glasses to convey the geeky look.

Cadet Boys

The 'cadet boys' visual appearance is easy to attain as the outfit worn by the army members consist of camougflage patterened clothing;bulky jacket and baggy trousers, black sturdy army boots, military flat cap and also war paint smeared across their cheekbones. For this extract, we will be using genuine cadet boys therefore they already own these items of clothing which means there is less hassle for our group to create the costume for these auditioners.

Old/Aged

To achieve an aged visual appearance for our 'lamb dressed as mutton' SpiceGirls, the group will use darker than skintone eyeshadows and pale creamed foundation. This will emphasise the depth of the wrinkles and enables us to draw on wrinkles on the forehead and jawline. The props used will also include walking sticks as this a stereotypical object that the elderly tend to have. The SpiceGirls will also be dressed in cardigans and bonnet; convention of the type of clothing worn by the elderly.

Chav Makeup

Katie Price is infamously known as the biggest celebrity chav in the UK. She is an inspiration in our music video as one of the judging panels in our 'Famous' video is a chav. The picture on the right has given our group some tips we can use for the makeup of our judge. We will pile on loads of fake tan to get the 'essex tango-ed' look. Also the blusher will overload be overloaded on the cheekbones to show the stereotypically OTT visual appearance. Bold black fake eyelashes will also be applied with heavy black smokey eye makeup to make the appearance dramatic. We will finish off the look by smothering the lips with bright neon fusion pink lipstick, finished of with lipgloss. The chav will also be chewing on a bubblegum and draped in 'bling' and dressed in baby pink clothing.

Clown

The image on the right of the clown is an inspiration look of what we would like the clown embedded in our video to look like. We will use white to highlight the shape around both the eyes and mouth and we will define the outline by using bold colours. We will also draw a red circle on the tip of the nose as this is the stereotypical convention of a clown or instead if possible, we shall use a red nose day sponge styled nose. We will also use brightly coloured balloons that the clown could be holding as this is cheap and will make the whole visual aspect of the scene with the clown more creative.

Rainbow Smokey Eyeshadow With Rainbow Lips Tutorial

For the dancer, we believe the makeup above would complete the look as it embellishes the stereotypical neon colours that the dancer is wearing; such as the bright tutu/rara skirt, and it makes the whole look adventurous. The facial makeup gives a bold statement and features well in our dramatic and theatrical video that we aim to create. It also amplifies the visual look and will help the audience understand that the character part of the theme of rave.

Also to complete the look, we decided to save money by making our own tutu by purchasing different neon colour netting and making the tutu by sewing the mesh material onto an elasticated white material. The band should be bigger than the waist measurements of the dancer. Below is an image of a tutu which we hope to achieve.

Meeting 9

During our media lesson, as a group we began to construct our storyboard. We wrote out a clear storyline first on a piece of paper so we all knew exactly what order the music video is going in. We each got a copy and then spilt the work equally. Each of us got a specific verse to use to make some of the storyboard. These were produced on post-it notes. Once this was finished, we discussed how we will add the animated edits to it on the computer, with the soundtrack, to make it look like a storyboard version of our music video. This will help us to visualise what we wish to generate. 

Tools in Photoshop

Upon loading Photoshop, a sidebar with a variety of tools with multiple image-editing functions appears to the left of the screen. These tools typically fall under the categories of cropping and slicing; drawing; painting; measuring and navigation; selection; typing; and retouching.^[27] Some tools contain a small triangle in the bottom right of the toolbox icon. These can be expanded to reveal similar tools.^[28] While newer versions of Photoshop are updated to include new tools and features, several recurring tools that exist in most versions are discussed below.

[edit]Cropping and Slicing

The crop tool can be used to select a particular area of an image and discard the portions outside of the chosen section. This tool assists in creating a focus point on an image and excluding unnecessary or excess space.^[29]

The "slice" and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images. The slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied.^[30] The slice select tool allows sliced sections of an image to be adjusted and shifted.^[30]

[edit]Drawing

Photoshop includes a few versions of the pen tool. The pen tool creates precise paths that can be manipulated using anchor points.^[27] The freeform pen tool allows the user to draw paths freehand, and with the magnetic pen tool, the drawn path attaches closely to outlines of objects in an image, which is useful for isolating them from a background.^[31]

[edit]Painting

A few of the painting tools in Photoshop are the brush, pencil, gradient and paint bucket tools. These can be used to retouch images by altering and adding colored pixels.^[32] Original paintings can be created using the brush tool, since it has many different default brush-tips, and brush strokes be easily adjusted in size, shape and texture.^[32] There is an option to create custom brushes to suit the user's needs, and original brushes and brush packages can be found on the web.^[33]

The pencil tool allows the user to paint rough strokes on the canvas, creating a similar effect to a real pencil on paper.^[27] The gradient, fill and paint bucket tools are similar to each other, as they each fill areas of the canvas with color.^[33]

[edit]Measuring and Navigation

The eyedropper tool selects a color from an area of the image that is clicked, and samples it for future use.^[27] The hand tool navigates an image by moving it in any direction, and thezoom tool enlarges the part of an image that is clicked on, allowing for a closer view.^[27]

[edit]Selection

The marquee tool can make selections that are single row, single column, rectangular and elliptical.^[27] Once an area of an image is highlighted, the move tool can be used to manually relocate the selected piece to anywhere on the canvas.^[27] The lasso tool is similar to the marquee tool, however, the user can make a custom selection by drawing it freehand. In addition, the lasso tool can make magnetic and polygonal selections.^[27]

[edit]Typing

Photoshop also provides tools for adding and editing text. The type tools create an area where text can be entered, and the type mask tools create a selection area that has the shape of text.^[27] The type tool creates vector-based text, so symbols, letters and numbers in various fonts and colors can be re-sized while maintaining the same resolution.^[34]

[edit]Retouching

There are several tools that are used for retouching, manipulating and adjusting photos, such as the clone stamp, eraser, burn, dodge, smudge and blur tools.^[27] The clone stamp tool samples a selected portion of an image, and duplicates it over another area using a brush that can be adjusted in size, flow and opacity.^[27] The smudge tool, when dragged across part of an image, stretches and smudges pixels as if they are real paint, and the blur tool softens portions of an image by lowering the amount of detail within the adjusted area.^[35] The eraser tool removes pixels from an image, and the magic eraser tool selects areas of solid color and erases them.^[27] The burn and dodge tools, which are derived from traditional methods of adjusting the exposure on printed photos, have opposite effects; the burn tool darkens selected areas, and the dodge tool lightens them.^[35]

[edit]Content-Aware

Content-awareness is a useful aspect of Photoshop where image editing is done automatically and intelligently. It comes in two forms which are content-aware scaling and content-aware filling, in which elements in a background automatically recompose according to the areas a user of the program decides to fill or scale. More specifically, content-aware scaling works by rescaling an image and causing its content to adapt to the new dimensions and preserving important areas of it. Content-aware filling functions by matching tone, color, and noise of an area of the image that contained an object or detail in which the user decides to remove.^[36]

[edit]Healing Tools

With improvement retouching tools like the Clone Stamp tool and Healing Brush tool, imperfections of an image can easily be removed. These tools essentially function by locating a source point (or multiple source points) that can be scaled or rotated in order to cover an imperfection or unwanted detail in a specific area of an image.^[36]

[edit]Puppet Warp

Similar to the content-aware tool, the puppet warp tool reveals Photoshop’s intelligence by allowing a user to reposition an object in an image such as a flower or arm. This is done by using points that outline the structure of an object and easily repositioning in the wanted orientation.^[36]

[edit]Video Editing

In Adobe CS5 Extended edition, video editing is comprehensive and efficient with a broad compatibility of video file formats such as MOV, AVI, FLC, MPEG-4, and FLV formats and easy workflow. Using simple combination of keys video layers can easily be modified, with other features such as adding text and the creation of animations using single images.^[37]

[edit]3D

With the Extended version of Photoshop CS5, 2D elements of an artwork can easily become three-dimensional with the click of a button. Extrusions of texts, an available library of materials for three-dimensional, and even wrapping two-dimensional images around 3D geometry are all possible with this version of Photoshop. Realism can also be added to an image using the 3D features of Photoshop such as animating image-based lights and depth of field.^[37]

[edit]Mobile Integration

Third-party plugins have also been added to the most recent version of Photoshop where technologies such as the Apple iPad have integrated the software with different types of applications. Applications like the Adobe Eazel painting app allows the user to easily create paintings with their fingertips and use an array of different paint from dry to wet in order to create rich color blending.^[36]

[edit]Camera Raw

With the Camera Raw plug-in, RAW images can be processed without the use of Adobe Lightroom, along with other image file formats such as JPEGs, TIFFs, or PNGs. The plug-in allows users to remove noise without the side-effect of over-sharpening, add grain, and even perform post-crop vignetting.^[37]

A2 Music Video Secondary Research – Music video director

Music videos represent a vital sector within the music industry. Music videos have become a venue where music artists are often promoted and given a chance to impress the public; not just vocally, but also with their visual abilities such as their signature moves. Today, music videos are considered as important as the song itself. There are artists and songs that have become so popular and well known because of their music videos. Although there are many people who think that the song is only secondary to the music video, the music video will only be a tool for the business and will be used to sell the song of the artist.

I shall analyse the music video ‘Scream’ which was a collaboration between the pop superstar siblings Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and also ‘Bedtime Story’ by the legend herself, Madonna; both videos directed by Mark Romanek.

After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek decided to focus on music videos and signed on with Satellite Films. His subsequent work has come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. He has worked with many top-selling recording artists from Jay Z to Bono and also from different genres of popular music.

First I will critique he 4:46 minute music video for "Scream" which was directed by Mark Romanek; with the production being designed by Tom Foden. Michael Jackson did not create the "concept" for the video, which he had often done in the past, but left it to the wise hands of Romanek. The song and its accompanying video are a response to the backlash Jackson received from the media in 1993 regarding him as a child molester. The acclaimed video was shot primarily in black and white, at a cost of $7 million.

The concept of the video is based upon Michael and Janet on a large spacecraft, in hope of getting away from planet Earth. This represents the harassment that Michael Jackson was going through previous to the release of the video

I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise. When you look at a Kubrick or a Scorsese or a Jean Luc Goddard film, it is obvious that they are the auteur of that language and tone. However, I think those guys would have to admit that it is a massively collaborative process. In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director -- especially if he wrote part of the script himself -- is clearly more the author of the movie. -- on if screenwriters should receive equal credit to directors

Music videos represent a vital sector within the music industry. Music videos have become a venue where music artists are often promoted and given a chance to impress the public; not just vocally, but also with their visual abilities such as their signature moves. Today, music videos are considered as important as the song itself. There are artists and songs that have become so popular and well known because of their music videos. Although there are many people who think that the song is only secondary to the music video, the music video will only be a tool for the business and will be used to sell the song of the artist.

I shall analyse the music video ‘Scream’ which was a collaboration between the pop superstar siblings Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and also ‘Bedtime Story’ by the legend herself, Madonna; both videos directed by Mark Romanek.

After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek decided to focus on music videos and signed on with Satellite Films. His subsequent work has come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. He has worked with many top-selling recording artists from Jay Z to Bono and also from different genres of popular music.

First I will critique he 4:46 minute music video for "Scream" which was directed by Mark Romanek; with the production being designed by Tom Foden. Michael Jackson did not create the "concept" for the video, which he had often done in the past, but left it to the wise hands of Romanek. The song and its accompanying video are a response to the backlash Jackson received from the media in 1993 regarding him as a child molester. The acclaimed video was shot primarily in black and white, at a cost of $7 million.

The concept of the video is based upon Michael and Janet on a large spacecraft, in hope of getting away from planet Earth. This represents the harassment that Michael Jackson was going through previous to the release of the video

I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise. When you look at a Kubrick or a Scorsese or a Jean Luc Goddard film, it is obvious that they are the auteur of that language and tone. However, I think those guys would have to admit that it is a massively collaborative process. In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director -- especially if he wrote part of the script himself -- is clearly more the author of the movie. -- on if screenwriters should receive equal credit to directors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reTVuZfeuuY&NR=1 Madonna Bedtime story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4A1K4lXDo Scream

Guardian Website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKX1LjosNU Mark Romanek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOsGdtyq7o Bedtime Story

Mark Romanek

“Mark Romanek is an American filmmaker, whose work includes feature films, music videos and commercials.” He is well known for working such as “Hurt” by Johnny Cash, “Scream” by Michael and Janet Jackson and “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails. These along with Jay-Z’s “99 problems” have thrust upon him 19 MTV Music Video Awards, accompanying these are his four Grammy Awards for best short form music video.

Due to the gaining of an award for best director for Jay-Z’s 99 problems, it was found to be an amble and worthy video to portray both his works and to analyse. Jay-Z initially wanted to shoot this video where he grew up to convey the intrigue within Brooklyn in New York City. This reflects the idea that he wanted to shoot it like photography so it would be depicted as art rather than simply the typical rap video.

A black and white technique is used throughout the video. This, therefore, breaks the mould of traditional hip hop and rap videos, as such a colouring was simply not present in that particular genre of music videos and so we find that this possesses rather unique qualities. Such a use of colouring, or in this case the lack of it, reflects the arty feel that was wanted to be conveyed in this video. However, as Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream” is also filmed in black and white, which once again creates cinematic and photographic attributes within the music video, however, it implies that Romanek may have been the creator of this ideal as the similar elements allow for the same effect. This, therefore, reflects the auteur theory as it relies on the creator’s vision as opposed to the artists, even though Jay-Z did clearly input into the artist elements and development process. 

Other techniques such as slow motion and the fish eye effect denote an accurate portrayal of Jay-Z’s life. The idea of the fish eye effect allows us to gain an insight into his world, as well as the concept that due to this precise depiction his life is being put on show for all to see, much like that of a fish in a tank and full of distortion.  The slow motion used also allows us to see the beauty within an almost decrepit place, once again reflecting the artistic qualities wanted to be portrayed in this video and so resulting in a perhaps argumentative side of the auteur theory, in this case. This technique is used in scenes where Jay-Z is not singing meaning that such a technique may be used as to provide the audience with an enhanced vision of life in Brooklyn, meaning that such beauty can be denoted in every frame which clearly both director and artist were eager to retain.    

For this video to be completed it took an age. Robert Duffy who was initially requested for editing was unavailable and so Romanek had to venture to others in aid of editing assistance. After such an encounter with three other editors, all of which were unsuccessful in the editing of this video, Romanek went back to Duffy who had to then edit it for free as they had spent all their capital on paying the unsuccessful editors. Despite this, we can gather the editing process to be a success and it is clear that a great deal of care and delicacy has been put into play. This is as in only thirty seconds of the video there are over sixty cuts and some of which are simply different angles of the ones present previously as appear as though only a few frames have been removed.  However, such a technique would have only be present due the that of the director and editor, this is as, although Jay-Z stated what he wished to convey throughout this video, Romanek would have most likely envisioned the fast paced editing. This can also depict the unpredictability and instability of where Jay-Z’s childhood.

Reflects Goodwin’s theory as portrayal of women – reflects lyrics “99 problems but the bitch ain’t one” In this video, women are conveyed in a rather typical manner, despite the general atypical nature of this video. This portrayal reflects Goodwin’s theory as we find that at points women are half naked or dressed specifically in a “skimpy” manner, meaning that although the theory was not intentionally supported and the video aimed to show an accurate depiction of a particular society, we find that it allows for a view of women as objects of man’s fascination, and as objects in general.

Rick Rubin, a vastly known music producer who makes himself known to work with all walks of artists within different genres, is present within the video, wearing a fur coat and a cowboy hat. This almost creates a sense of comedy within the video as such an import ant an influential figure conveyed in such a manner is rather demeaning and so this would have largely been an ideal belonging to Romanek, however, the artist may have possessed such an input as if they retained a working relationship they may have wished to include a great influence and friend of theirs in the video. We are, therefore, unsure as to whether director or artist can claim the creative idea of such a notion.     

This rather atypical music video allows us to argue both for and against as to whether Romanek’s works, particularly that of Jay-Z’s “99 problems”, allow us to play witness to an input from both director and artist as opposed to one or the other. We cannot dismiss Romanek’s explicit ability to capture the artists ideals, however we cannot stress to how great a degree. For example, with the colouring we find that Romanek would likely possess such a take on it as he has done it in another of his well known music videos as well as that it appears as though he has taken the idea to an extreme as although Jay-Z wanted to denote the beauty of Brooklyn in a photographic way, we find it to be almost a line of elongated photographs strung together.   

Inspiration

Despite the concept of elephants having nothing to do with the lyrics of the song, this music video is immensely inspirational. It takes the simplest of ideas and transforms it into a masterpiece. The song it in no way amusing, however, the concept of an elephant trying to get to paradise is unbelieveably unique! Like "Famous" by Scouting for Girls, this video puts does not link audio and visuals together in the general sense and so we find that these types of music videos can be immensely successful. This is also an inspiring concept for us as like our intended idea it explores the realms of costumes and so we find it brings an ease to be able to view other and professional works which explore the use of costumes and focus around it to such a degree.

Tom Jones

We done this using Final Cut Express. Through this we gained many new skills, which is helping us throughout the course, even now. We are still learning as there are many little, specific features in this programme that we comprehend when we do something new. It's a learning process - we improve each day.

Some of how we edited:
There are 4 main windows that it is divided into, these are: browser, viewer, canvas and timeline. We had to use all 4 as each one has a significant role. The browser is where we got all our clips and sound in a chronological order. What we had to do was drag our sound and clips into the browser from 'finder.' To then be able to visually see the clip we dragged it into the viewer, which enabled us to see the clip clearly. We then dragged the clip into the canvas and timeline in order to begin the editing process. The viewer is where we edited our clips and we were able to see our results in the canvas.
To add effects to our clip, I clicked on the 'effects' tab which displayed several different effect types. This included; video filters, video transitions, audio filters, (etc). Many times we had to use the 'crop tool' as there were unnecessary backgrounds visible.

Timeline

Planning - notes

Where to advertise?

One of the main considerations is advertising. This is a key dynamic in order to pursue the product making. Our target audience are the main key factor when deciding where to advertise. Our target audience is teenagers of both genders. Therefore, we need to make sure the video is neutral and not too feminist and vice versa. Also, this means we have to advertise accordingly.

Where we will advertise:
- Social networks
- Music Channels

Social Networks
Social networking has grown to the point where 84% of the world use some source of social networking - e.g Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace and Bebo. Social networking is all free and due to the reason that such a huge population use it, it is very helpful to expose your product and get instant feedback. This is very crucial for us as we need to save as much money as we can due to the low budget. Also, it will instantaneously get some recognition. It is also the fastest way to communicate with our potential viewers. Since our target audience is mainly the youth, advertising online will be very beneficial and appropriate for us.

Music Channels
Music channels are a good way to promote your new video before it has been released. This spreads awareness to the channel viewers. This makes them want to watch the video when it is released due to all the promotion for it - creates a positive alertness to the mass audience.

Meeting 8

During this group meeting, we decided to apply the feedback from the questionnaires onto our music video. This meant that we changed our initial ideas to suit the response from the audience. This therefore meant that segments were adapted for appropriateness and out of circumstance. We managed to resolve any issues we had with the acknowledgement of what was going on in our video as everyone received certain handouts which allowed for a good and detailed understanding. 

Inspiration - Celebrities

This is a scene from 'California Girls' by Katy Perry. The reason I posted this was to show how unique she makes her music videos, as a result making the work piece very memorable. She has now got a trademark for her over-the-top music videos, her colourful outburst she puts in every video and her bright coloured wigs she wears for almost everything - she possesses her own identity. We hope to attain along the lines of what she does, in order to make our video also exceptional and exclusive. However, due to the fact that our record label is low budgeted, we would need to take that into consideration and we do not want to make it too fancy. I hope for it to express simplicity but in a memorable manner.

Inspiration - Celebrities

Katy Perry is a huge inspiration for me. Her huge sunglasses for one really intrigued me. Those are the type of sunglasses we hope to use for our album cover and maybe in the music video too. Her fun personality and attitude towards all her work and music videos has fascinated me.I hope we achieve an entertaining and enjoyable music video as she does. The way she over-exaggerates in her videos, we want to also do something along those lines in order to make the video eye-catching so the viewers do not go elsewhere when our video is exposed.

Inspiration for Album Cover

Our album cover idea is to have everything black & white except for the word 'famous' which will be written in huge, funky sunglasses. Each letter of the word will be written individually on a different glass. 'Famous'  will be written in a bright colour in order for it to be striking. Also the stars in the image above gave us another idea - we are going to have a flash of light in the corner of the album to represent paparazzi taking a photograph of what is happening on the album cover. This idea came about originally from the actual song promotion itself (as shown above in the image). We liked the concept of sunglasses but did not want to do the exact same thing. Subsequently, we interpreted the idea using our own imagination. 

Which music channels would play our music video?

The genre of our chosen song is Indie-pop. Therefore, when thinking of where to play our video, we need to do it according to our target audience and what music channels they watch. Through our research we asked 16 people, whom mainly listened to indie-pop music, what music channels they watch or would watch. All of them either said MTV dance, VH1 or/and Viva. This research was done very easily. We asked each person individually in our own time and simply noted down what they said. The sample was randomly chosen out of all the people who listen to indie-pop music. Consequently, we are now aware what channels to play our music video in order for it to be recognised and appreciated.

Inspiration

Charity Work

Scouting for Girls fundraise for two charities, the members are official ambassadors for the children's charity, Wellchild. This is a national charity helps sick children and their families throughout the UK to manage the consequences of serious illness and complex health conditions through our programme of care, support and research. The band also support the Help for Heroes charity. They fundraise for both charities.

Their most notable fundraiser to date was cycling from London to Brighton on children's chopper bikes for WellChild. (research below taken from BBC Gloucestershire)

Pop band Scouting for Girls are to auction their chopper bikes to raise money for a Cheltenham-based charity.

The trio - Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Pete Ellard - used the bikes for a fundraising ride from London to Brighton, where they also played an intimate acoustic show.

Having already raised over £20,000 for the Wellchild charity, they're now offering fans the chance to bid for the bikes online.

"No one has ever attempted riding choppers from London to Brighton before, so we are over the moon!" said Roy Stride, Scouting For Girls' vocalist.

"We ache all over, but it was worth every minute as we have raised thousands for WellChild.

"We are now going to auction the lucky choppers off for WellChild so get bidding on eBay!

"Thank you all for being so generous. We're now off to bed for a week to recover!"

'Amazing'

It took the group over 24 hours to cycle 60 miles from Wandsworth Park in London to Brighton.

Colin Dyer from WellChild said: "We couldn't be more grateful to Roy, Greg and Pete for choosing to support WellChild in this incredible way.

"Like most charities we spend our time trying to persuade and cajole people into fundraising for us and helping us to raise the profile for our work.

"The fact that the challenge and concert has been totally the band's idea is just amazing and I would like to thank everyone who has supported them along the way."

Scouting For Girls - Awards

-Scouting for Girls were nominated for three BRIT Awards in 2009 for British Breakthrough Act, British Live Act and British Single ("Heartbeat"). (the picture below shows other performers that were also nominated).

-They were nominated again in 2011 for Best British Single with 'This Ain't A Love Song'.

-Scouting for Girls were also nominated in the Best New Act category in the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008.

-Scouting for Girls have been nominated for the Ivor Novello 2011 PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK award for:
This Ain't A Love Song Writer: Roy Stride Performed By: Scouting for Girls UK Publisher: EMI Music Publishing.

Meeting 7

As a group we analysed and discussed the results of the questionnaire that we handed out to the audience during our pitch.

We found that overall many people believed that we have many good ideas and we have embedded the genre conventions of comedy and pop effectively. However some individuals suggested that 'less is more' and our video can be just as effective without too complicated and intricate ideas.

The most favourable extract of our music video was the 'Dream Sequence' and  the idea that we were including Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis and James Dean look alikes. Our logo of pants made of Smarties sweets was greatly approved as well as the technique of stop motion which will be used towards the end of our music video.

Everyone in our audience believed our music video of 'Famous' by Scouting for Girls fall under the genre of Pop. This is a good sign as it suggests that our ideas and techniques incorporate the conventions of the pop genre and it is apparent to the audience what the genre of the extract is.

The audience also managed to estimate our demographic of being teenagers which is what we set out to achieve. Ages ranged from 13 years old to 17 years old. 

Mostly all our audience were willing to watch all our video as they believe they would find it funny and comic. This is a good sign as it shows that the comic aspect of our music video is achieved.

However one individual commented that they would not watch the extract, as it is not a song our genre of We calculated the mean score of the ratings of our overall ideas. The score we gained was 7.5. We believe this is a good score however we shall try and improve our ideas to achieve an even higher score by taking into consideration the suggestions made by our fellow classmates.

Questionnaire responses