Initial Ideas

We have decided to three different parts for our video. We have a storyline that we are going to present like a short movie, a main singer part where all you see is the mouth of the singer, emphasising the teeth and a dance routine where we hope to have around 5 dancers doing a dance we have choreographed from looking at Lady Gaga's live performances.

We have decided to film our video completely in black and white. We think this will be different to the other videos and will go nicely with our theme of death and vampires. It will also go well for our storyline part as we want a olden day film feel to it.

We would like to achieve some unusual shots and camera angles in our video to match the quality of a Lady Gaga video. We are also going to experiment with our lighting to emphasise parts of the body and low light to give people dark faces. We hope to do these shots in a studio.

For make up and costume we have decided to make our dancers wear some sort of mesh or lace face mask to cover their eyes and make the audience focus on their mouths. But we still want to see the make up through the face masks. Dancers will be wearing home made outfits of all black and maybe some white. We think dancers will be in leotards or lace outfits. We hope to achieve quite outrageous outfits, as Gaga does, but of course we have not got a huge amount of time and these outfits could be expensive, so we will make outfits to the best of our abilities and resources. Make up will also be black, and we are thinking smokey eye make up, quite overdone with bright lips that we may or may not shoot in colour. As the red idea would go well with out theme of death as red symbolises blood.

We put together a mind map to see which ideas would work with our theme and resources for the video. See link below for mind map.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5WUAYNvqSRQMmYyZDY1YjQtZDgxNS00ODE5LTg3MDgtMmVkNmIwODU0ZWU3&hl=en