Costumes- Final Dance

When deciding for the costume, for the final dance scene, we told our artist to preferably wear a suit or tuxedo, as we wanted our audience to see intertextual references with the way 'Ne-yo' (proffessional music artist) is usually dressed in his music videos. We also told the female actor in our music video to preferably wear a dress, however on the day we realised that the dress did not suit the image that Michael was representing. Therefore, we quickly got her changed into a more elegant dress and jewellry before going out to the shoot.
<--- First Dress <--- Second Dress Th costumes matched, and looked much better together after the change of dress.

DIFFICULTIES: Distortion Of Footage

We faced a few difficulties in the production of our music video, some scenes had become corrupt due to overused tapes, the scenes included the common room scene we did for the beginning and ending of our video, and the start of the restaurant scene in the bathroom. We overcome this problem by re-shooting the common room scenes however we could not access the restaurant again so we had to make do with the corrupt clip we had of Michael (Actor) in the bathroom.

Shooting- 20/01/10

Today we recorded the beginning scene of our video. We left this towards the end as the location was in our college common room, and it was easily accessible. Some difficulties we faced was that we had to move around some of the furniture in the common room including the snooker table, chairs and television, in order for us to have enough space to place our tripod and camera. This was also quite time consuming as the furniture was heavy. Although the scene was only 24 seconds, it was quite time consuming aswell as we tried to have a various range of shots.

Artist Profiles

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Ruksar Miah- Female actor
This is the female actor we used for our music video. We decided to use a female actor with similar aspects of the singer Nicole Scherzinger. The basic criteria of Nicole was a tall asian girl and we used Ruksar as she fit this description. We also had Ruksar act similarly to Nicole in the video, such as the way she walked and her dress sense in order to increase the intertextuality between her and Nicole for the purpose of our audience.

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Michael Kabati- Male artist/actor
This is the male artist we used for our music video. We decided that we wanted our artist to have similar aspects and the look of Chris Brown/ Michael Jackson/Neyo. We chose this look as it's currently the look that is most popular in the male music industry. We used typical characteristics of famous music artists and reinforced it into our video. For example the artist in our video wears a hat, we took this from Neyo, as he is usually associated with this look.