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Monday, 24 November 2014
Friday, 21 November 2014
Gaga EG 5 - Just Dance
About the Video
Directed by: Melina Matsoukas
Track: Just Dance
Genre: Dance-Pop
Lyrics
This video focuses on gaga and her visit to a party. she arrives in a limousine, and starts music playing on a boom box.
Costumes were my main concern for this video, I felt like lady gaga would average around 10 costumes a video and, based on research up to this point, the average is 10, but I feel like this may be slightly inflated by GUY - An ARTPOP Film.
The video features the following costumes:
So, as you can see, the number of outfits here is significantly lower, just 6. This may be because Gaga was not as well known when this was produced and so she may not have had as big a budget behind her.
This brings the average to 8 outfits, well within what we can do, however, I believe we should add one outfit to this total, in order to compensate for the above point.
The video features the following costumes:
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| A Black Wig/Suitish outfit |
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| Pink Jacket |
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| Zebra |
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| High Key outfit |
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| Dungaree outfit |
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| Swimming pool outfits |
So, as you can see, the number of outfits here is significantly lower, just 6. This may be because Gaga was not as well known when this was produced and so she may not have had as big a budget behind her.
This brings the average to 8 outfits, well within what we can do, however, I believe we should add one outfit to this total, in order to compensate for the above point.
Making a Google Calendar
I made a google calendar to use as a production schedule, and this is a video explaining how i made it.
The example google calendar can be found here: (has been halved in size)
And our Production schedule can be found here:
Copyright Request
In order use the track 'Bad Romance', we needed to request the use of the track. We did so by emailing Universal Music Publishing Group, The email is below:
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| Our Email requesting use of the track. |
Hello, We are A2 Media Studies students at Ilkley Grammar School. We are working on a music video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" for our coursework assignment. This is for the purposes of our coursework, not for any commercial use or gain. We would like your permission to use the audio track for "Bad Romance". We will upload rough and final cuts of our video to YouTube, always acknowledging the third party copyright ownership that YouTube generates. We'd be delighted to discuss the concept we have for this video if you are interested, or to simply answer any further questions you might have. You can also address any queries to Mr Burrowes, Head of Media Studies at the school, whose email is david.burrowes@ilkleygs.ngfl.ac.uk. The coursework itself is the production of a digipak, magazine advert and a music video for Lady Gaga. Many thanks, Conal Walsh (cw136902@ilkleygrammarschool. com)Amber Pianforini (pa075401@ilkleygrammarschool. com) You can find a blog showcasing our work at amvid.blogspot.com Ilkley Grammar School, Ilkley LS29 8TR.
Their response is below:
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| UMPGs response |
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Audience and Technology Vodcast
This is the vodcast on audience and technologies, and how we have used technologies to help with our audience research
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Bad Romance - Recording Studio Test Footage
We edited together the filming we did in the recording studio, and we're pretty happy with how it turned out, obviously a lot of the song has not been edited and there are a few points where we could do with more footage to insert, but for now, we are very happy with it. We will be using this to get some feedback on how charlie performed as Gaga.
Gaga EG 4 - Paparazzi
Directed by: Jonas Åkerlund
Track: Paparazzi
Genre: Dance-Pop
Lyrics
Jonas Åkerlund presents a very
The video starts with various artistic shots of a seaside mansion, which leads to gaga and her boyfriend, kissing in bed. They head outside, and kiss on a balcony, there are shots that look to be from a camera, and gaga is pushed from the balcony and is shown falling on a spinning spiral background. there are multiple photographers around her when she has fallen, we then see gaga getting out of a car, she is wearing a costume with what looks like a neck brace on it. she is lifted into a wheelchair and then starts to change clothes. She changes into a gold robotic costumes, and gets up with the help of crutches. the next verse focuses on gaga cavorting on a sofa while singing the song, this is interspersed with images of dead women. She then enters a room with various similarly dressed dancers and dances through this chorus with them. The bridge is made up of shots of gaga in an elevator with flashing lights and one of her great danes. She is back with her boyfriend and starts preparing drinks, putting poison in his. He dies and she calls the police. The final part of the video shows gaga, still hounded by photographers being escorted away by police.
A total of 9 costumes from Gaga in this video. Which appears to be just above average for her.
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| Costume number 1 |
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| Neck brace costume |
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| Metropolis costume |
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| Sofa costume |
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| Cirque du soleil |
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| Elevator costume |
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| Micky-Mouse Costume |
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| Arrested costume |
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| Jail costume |
I personally, immediately felt the titles were references to silent films it felt, to me, that it was specifically french silent films, even though i had not seen any film with titles like it.
There are a few
these include a reference to vertigo, a classic by Alfred Hitchcock, with the spirals and the way in which gaga falls and is rushed to.
There is also a reference to Metropolis, in the metal outfit.
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