Prop List

We will need quite a few props for our music video.

• Big sunglasses
• Bright lipstick
• Diverse, colourful clothing
• A camera
• A tripod
• Jewellry
• Green - Screen
• Drums

We will need the props for when we start filming on the 31st of October . We need these props to make the song work, because of the lyrics a lot of the things we do are corrosponding towards what the lyrics say, to enable the video to make sense. We are doing this to portray the originality and variable style of the music video, for example we want big sunglasses, lipstick, bright make up, jewellry to enable the audience to see how original and different this type of music video is.  Also when i was researching pop videos I found out that many artists really concentrate on their individual style, their make up, their hair, their jewellry and styles that they have to be able to promote themselves and show a positive self image.

Because our group is all girls it makes us have to consider styling more than other groups because it is typical of a pop girl band to have their styling and different factors of styling precise. This makes it relevant to our genre by obeying certain elements.

How we are going to get hold of the props, many of our members already own the things we need such as jewellry and lipstick. Although we may have to buy other factors such as bright clothing, which can be found in retail shops such as Primark, New Look etc.

We can also buy some things like lipsticks, make - up and jewellry from an online source. As well as typical make - up stores such as Boots or Super Drug.

One of our members own a drum set so we will be able to shoot a small part of our video at their house to get the effect.

College will provide us with the camera, tripod and green - screen to be able to do the music video how we would like it.

These types of props relate to Stuart Hall (1980) Theory of encoding/decoding messages. I think our music video will create a negotiated position, which is established when there is a mixture of adaption and opposition to the dominant codes of our music video. This is because our music video is pop/ electro. Pop fans would more than likely expect a slightly simpler music video, but they would expect us to be very considerate of personal image, which you can see by our prop list a lot of thought has gone into our image to be able to pull off the pop image successfully. Although listeners that are more pop fans wouldn't expect the electro element which is a lot of different sounds and electronic sounds, on the other hand people who like listening to electro music may want more electronic elements into the song. So that is why there is a mixture of adaptation because there are different types of music fans addressed in our video.