'The Rogues' - Fairytale of New York

On the festive impulse, our group decided to wish Tupton a 'Merry Christmas' by creating a short chistmassy video starring all of us, not only being a fun way to challenge ourselves, but also get some last-minute practice in!
We set ourselves the challenge of creating said music video within the time limit of two hours, including the shooting and editing time. In order to save time, we took inspiration from the original video by The Pogues, noting down key events we could attempt to replicate, adding our own twist -linking to my subsidiary group's initial idea of putting a twist on a 60s single.
We shot a variety of scenes ranging from 'band' shots, stabs of narrative to fit Goodwin's conventions as best we could, including examples of bad and almost 'good' lip-syncing. Mise-en-scene was hesitantly planned as we managed to grab some instruments such as the guitars, piano ad drums; but also ensuring band members were all wearing hats to differentiate themselves from lead singer, Dom.. who sported a lovely pair of dark shades, much like Shane MacGowan himself.

Our Digi-pak was constructed by our photoshop Wizard, Emily; taking a still from our video (Dom playing the piano), fading into a snowy, New York scene to in keep with the lyrics adding a taste of what the audience would expect from the music/ video.

 

After many technophobe moments from myself, our Adobe whizzkid Danny came to the rescue in order to finish our piece within good time, ensuring all lip-syncing was, well... synced and that all transitions wre carefully planned.

On that note, here is our two-hour miracle..

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

Love A2 Media.

 

 

Costume

Today we focused mainly on costume and make up design; because we've chosen a song from the 60's, we wanted our actors to replicate the 'typical' 60s look. We researched into the era in order to understand how the women dressed which then allowed us to add a contemporary twist. We noticed that shift dresses were common during the 60's however we feel that going for a more glamorous look and opting for floor length dresses would work better with the genre of music we have chosen, taking inspiration from The Marvelettes mid-length - floor-length stage dresses. Modesty was key in researching out costume inspiration, as women from the 60s era were far from scantily dressed, regardless to how common as it is today.

 

When asking for feedback from our peers, (most intended audience) we found they appreciated the longer dresses, deeming them as more 'sensual' and 'leaving things to imagination' rather than the scantily dressed artists of today. This confirmed our belief that there is sex appeal of modest women, both in contemporary and traditional periods -sex appeal also influences sales of albums/ singles in both periods.