Stereotypes

sterotype questions.
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What different groups of people do you have in your genre?
In my genre i have young women singing and dressed quite pervogativly. The genre that we are following is pop and in this genre the majority of the music videos include young sexy women. However in the 'pop' genre the singers and dancers do not neccisarily have to be female. In my genre men can be found also however they must have the simular conventions o the women in the genre such as smooth looking and quite attractive.

What are the common stereotypes?
The common views of the sterotype of girl bands are girls that dress in very trendy clothes aswell as alot of make up. In the media today we see lots of drama about girl bands doing bad things. Such as in girls aloud in the media 'cheryl cole' had been in the media alot as they have been covering thier divorce. Girl bands such as girls aloud and the Saturdays are seen to be quite troublesome and are convetionally good dancers. All the girls and boys in the convention tend to be quite well groomed. They can be airbrished in teh photo shoots that they do therefore this could be a false perception of who they really are.

Are they traditional or modern representations?
Traditionally in the media, females were seen to be 'traditional housewives'. this meant that they conventionally had to stay at home and keep the house clean as well as cook the food. A typical image of the tradional women have a simularity of the modern as they are both technically well groomed. However over time the image of the women has evolved, this is due to teh moving of the times and more flesh and more pervogative clothing is able to be worn. The ultimate pop era was the 90's were band such as steps and the spice girls were made. this was a turing point for the media as a differant take on women in girl bands was taken.

What changes have there been in society which have impacted on the representations of your groups?
After the 90s were the spice girls were put together, society changed the way that women were seen. The girl band promoted such a thing as 'girl power' with this more break out women groups were formed and every year since the spice girls. Girls aloud wo were formed on a show called pop stars the rivals saw a new era of girls as they broke all sorts of records and alot of respect was found for girl bands in society. Orinigally in the past women were not to be promoted as sex symbols however as time has moved on it has become more socially acceptable for them to become more so after thease turning points.

Location

For our location we have decided to to the dance and most of the shots on the stage which is simular to the 'work' video. This makes it look slightly more proffesional as the actual video has the girls on a stage. We will also use the white back ground for the single shots, simularly for the photo shoot.

Shot Types and Creative Techniques

For our video and our photshot the shots that we will use are mostely going to use close ups, head shots and long shots.
We will use head shots to show the make up and the hair styles to fit the conventions of a girl band. This will also tye in to our close ups which will be used to show the emotion in our faces as we sing the song. We will use continuty editing to tye in the differant shots through out the video. Long shots will be used so that the audience are able to look at relate to the clothes that we are wearing. Shots like this will be used mostly in the dance to show all the group dancing together to create a better effect.

The importance of being able to plan your shots makes it easier to shot the video. It means that the actual video shot will be able to will go alot smoothly and the dance will be able to be chorographed in order with the shot sequence.

Logo and Promo

Rouge records.

For our company logo and promotional picture we came up with two ideas for it. we decided that the picture needed to conotate red and girly. we decided to have a black and white image and incorporate the red in the image to make it stand out and make our logo clear. we experimented with a cd to show that we were a music company along with a nail varish to show that 'rouge records' was a girl promoted company. However we decided that this image could look to busy and it could be hard to recognise without the actual word 'rouge records'. Our other image that we tried was a picture that included a picture of one of our group members and that looked simple but got across the idea of the company. We felt as though this image did this as we like to think that our music is so good that it would be 'shocking' not only that we wanted to include to red shocking colours through it and we decided that we did that well.

Company Name

We decided on a few names to name our group, once we decided on 'the sundays' we then began to start looking into company names.

As our company produces girls bands we decided to incorporate something girly into it as well and including the word 'records'.

Here are some of the names that we originally came up with:

sunday records

buzzing records

pink puff records

We then began to twist the words and began to look into differant languages, we decided on french as the connotates romance and looked at colours. we decided to go with red which translates to rouge, we then decided to change the second word to records to create a alliteration. all four of us decided we like this name and so we decided that our names was

THE SUNDAYS by ROUGE RECORDS.

Ideas For Album Cover

or for our music cover we have decided to follow the conventions of the original music covers from the original saturdays albums. in both of these pictures we can see that the saturdays are trying to look pervogative and sexy, in both of the albums we have noticed that each girl has a individual colour that they sport. we have decided that we could contrast this into our album covers to make it more recognisable as the sundays. Looking and comparing at both of these albums, we can see a differance in the colours in the at the back ground. the first one has a white back ground which makes them look slightly more innocent. for our back ground we will follow that certain convention as it also makes the picture look more polished and professional.

For our shoot we have decided to shoot it in a simular environment to the shoots we see above. we will most likely follow the conventions of the strait shot and not so much the low angle shot that we see in the second picture. this is because we would need more aparatus to preform such a shoot. also in personal preferance we believe that a long shot for the shoot will flatter our dresses more so also. Therefore this gives the audience a better view of the band and we can be more recognisable to potential buyers of the album.

The name of the album will most likely resemble our names 'THE SUNDAYS'. And the font will be simular to the covers that we see above. It will cover a majority of the album cover so that people will be able to recognize the saturdays strait away. There will be five girls, simularly to the saturdays cover and we will all be dressed in a stylish way.