Introduction

This media blog will document each stage leading to my final music video. Ill post all my ideas and inspirations and anything I think is relevent. Im am working on the video with Lauren Cansick. We both decided on using the song Waking up in Vegas - Katy Perry because the songs theme is Vegas, and the idea of getting into trouble in Vegas. We chose this song because visually you can be very creative with it. Vegas is re-known for being over the top and opulent and this can be portrayed really well in the music video, by using bright costumes, choosing the right location, and incorporating really good Mis -En Scene. We chose a music video over a film trailor as its alot easier and more appropriate to be creative with music videos, whereas film trailors tend to follow a specific guideline relating to the genre. With a music video you can play around with things and the video doesnt have to relate to the lyrics and it can still make sense. Wheras a film trailor is alot more rigid. Im very excited to see the developement of the video and hope you enjoy the process and final version.

This is a mood board representing "pop" as this is the genre we chose for our video. We chose it as pop music has an aim of appealing to a general audience rather than a particular sub culture, and has a very youthful appeal to it. It is enjoyed by many dofferent types of people and all over the world. My mood board contains two images of Andy Warhols pop art. I chose these images as Warhol wanted to paint the most popular things in his generation for example coca cola. Things that represent that time, hence "pop" art. This is what pop music is like, its mainstream and very commercial and appeals to the current generation its in. One of the things that is popular in our generation is "the simpsons", it is aimed at the same type of audience that pop music is aimed at. Its very commercial and involves subjects that are relevent in this particular generation. I have a picture of Elvis Presley in there as again, he was the most popular artist of his time, and kind of kicked off the pop genre as his music was a much lighter version of rock and so couldnt justify being called rock. It much more suited pop. In the bottom right hand corner is a oicture of graffiti by popular graffiti artist Banksy. He sprays things that are very relevent in todays culture and are aimed at the so called "ipod generation", it has the same type of audience as pop music. The bottom left hand corner is a picture of a fashionable teenager on her phone, i think this picture represents the same type of audience that listen to pop music. Young fashionable people who have grown up with ipods and phones, and are into "popular culture". It is also a very colourful tyoe of genre. Its light and bubbly so i wanted my mood board to reflect this. The same will be with the video, it will be very colourful and involve that type of "popular culture" idea with fashionable teenagers etc.