Skirts

costumes:

i was looking on the internet to see if i could find any bargains - everythings rubbish and expensive!

there are these skirts on ebay:

They're like £14.99 so maybe just one for Goli? They're pretty cool, but im actually preferring the sarong idea at the mo. Everyone keep their eyes peeled!

Jaz

Costumes

I looked at Spanish/Latino dancewear to see if we could come up with any further ideas for what we can wear and to get a better picture of the style we are looking for. The black tie-up style skirt might be an easier thing to find, like Jazzi suggested sarongs and like the purple bikinis for Golli, if we buy a plain one and add on the jewels with the dangling one in the middle. There are also a few pictures of mens' costumes.

Posted by Natalie

Makeup Ideas

Hey guys, i was searching for pictures of makeup and i found some that are really glittery and extravagant, so we can maybe copy some of the ideas
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myspace

I've made a myspace music site so i could get our song onto the internet. Our band is called media2c if your looking it up! i dont no if the song has actually uploaded yet, apparently it takes 24hours...

fitting shots to the music ideas

ok group, sorry i was bored, and i was trying to think of a way we could fit all our shot ideas to the track. so i've been like listening to it over and over and like putting ideas into certain places? i'll list what my ideas are here and explain it properly in the next meeting. they're all our group shot ideas that we've discussed i've just been like finding an order for them if ya get me.

• So it starts with the fast make-up shots, CUs etc
• When the big beat kicks in i thought we could have a lift opening (an idea we mentioned ages ago) and as the doors open all the girls are posing in full costume.
• Now we have the running round the streets and the bus and stuff all going on, interspersed at this point with very short glimpses of trumpets playing, silhouettes of dancers, and maybe flashes of costume and bright colours.
• Then when the tune dies down and it just the drums (the music goes quite slow) i thought we could have Goli's big entrance (like the filthy gorgeous vid) where we show everyone watching her, CUs of their expressions, the movements are quite slow. But here we could use some voyeuristic shots of Goli, cutting up her body - eyes, tummy, shoes - as if from the POV of the people watching and scrutinising/admiring her. She then begins to dance a bit...
• And when the tune kicks in again everyone else joins in. Here we have the full on mercado party; loads of alcohol, dancing, people sitting looking cool, cocktails, people having fun.
• When the guy starts singing and the trumpets are gone i think we should have the choreographed dancing but all cut up. So we can have the girls dancing with goli, cut up with boys and girls doing ricky martin dancing, cut up with goli on her own dancing in her ZONE with projections, cut up with all the girls in their boudoir laughing (rehearsing maybe?). Use slow mo a bit here maybe?
• When it goes fast again she should run up onto the bar.

And that's where i stopped, there's still like a minute of the song to go though. but after/in between all that we need to have the glitter moments and the colours. there are actually some perfect moments for that but i cant remember where.

posted by jaz

Shot Ideas

In today's lesson, as a group we decided on more shot ideas that we could include in our video. As well as deciding on having lots of fast-paced shots that we could cut together, not neccessarily in a particular order, we thought about specific shots that we could shoot.

For example, based on inspiration from Gee's art project - projections over Golli

The girls (us) dancing whilst pouring glitter or sprinkling sparkly paper from above our heads.

We need to test out the 'paint idea' - attatching the camera to a stick/rod and spinning it around whilst filming paint being poured onto paper

Writing/drawing with sparklers

Lots of CUs on facial features, such as eyes/lips to focus on the extravagant and very bright/glittery makeup

Silhouettes of Golli dancing - similar to the Moulin Rouge music video, Lady Marmalade

CU of Golli blowing glitter into the camera

Posted by Natalie

Holiday Findings and Monday's Meeting

oh god how embarassing (the s club video i mean!) oh well, at least ours won't have any tacky gingham shirts in it (ahem jon).

Oh an by the way, who is karina in our possible actresses list? i think i missed that one...

Well, first up we have our star Golnessa Motazedi...

She's agreed to be in the vid and is up for filming etc etc. She definately looks the part as a spanish/latino sexy mama who all the guys want.

In barbados me and Gee visited the Crop Over festival where there were hundreds of people dressed up in sequined bikinis with huge hats and crazy jewels, arms bands and belts. They were pretty crazy and drunk and rather explict at times, but i took some footage anyway which could be useful as out-takes for our video if we do stick with the carnival theme. We also brought back 2 hats which are huge and bright - one is blue with huge feathers coming out of the top and the other is gold with one long orange feather hanging down the back. We can get hold of a load more from the year below and the PE department.

Monday's Meeting

In mondays meeting we discussed what we've acheived over the summer (all of which has been posted) and began to share and decide upon some real shot and sequence ideas.

• We'd still like to open with the girls getting ready, the shots would be punchy, dramatic and colourful. Goli's costume would be covered by Nina's silk dressing gown, which she'll then fling off to show us her sexay costume.
• We'd then have a series of travelling shots which could be broken up by glimpses of the bar and the party (like snapshots and close-ups). The girls are travelling on buses, running through the streets, laughing, having fun.
• When they arrive at Mercado we will use shots similar to the 'Filthy Gorgeous' video by the scissor sisters, POV shots of Goli's entrance, ver crowded, everyone staring at her, moving out the way.
• In mercado we've decided on some very specific shots: barmen making cocktails, people doing shots, champagne bottle popping, glasses being filled up. We'd also like to use sparklers at some point but that might be with the girls outside, we'd have to test that. We need to have lots of dancing to create a lively party ambience, but the dancing can't look stilted or forced people have to actually be enjoying themselves! we can also have some choreographed moves, all of us dancing behind goli, then we leave her and she dances on her own for a bit everyone watching, she could get up on the bar and then everyone starts dancing again? We could also have a couple of Ricky Martin dancing shots with the girls and boys paired up doing spins and stuff

And that's all for now folks...

Posted by Jazzi