PLANNING - Anamatic Storyboard

PLANNING: Initial Ideas For My Digipak

PLANNING; mock - up digipak

This is my first mock up digipak. I then made another one and have completly changed the design and the colours and the font all to match

Task 10: Audience Task

Paul Willis, 1990

"Pop stars are, to some extent, symbolic vehicles with which young women understand themselves more fully, even if by doing so they partly shape their personalities to fit the stars' alleged preferences."

This quote tells us that pop stars are like an icon to their audience's eyes. They tend to imitate their whole identity and behaviour such as: their clothes, hairstyles, make-ups, the way they dance or sing. Pop stars present themselves as the ideal girl that creates strong appeal and influence to their audience, especially if a fan has her insecurities. Pop stars are accepted by many in the society, and this is one of the reasons why young women want to be like them. These young women finds an escapism through their idols' songs, which I would say makes their life easier as they look at them as a guide on how to fit on what is current today.

In my opinion, I both agree and disagree with Paul Willis viewpoint. Young girls (for example: 12-15), most girls would be an active audience as their identity is still not fully developed, whereas young women age 16-24 would likely more to be a passive audience who just focus more on the message of the song. In addition, I still agree with the writer's viewpoint as girls/women cannot prevent idolizing appealing pop stars.

Emerald De Silva

18 years of age

Female

Filipino/British

She is a full time college student (A2)

 Part ime job in Dorothy Perkins

Where they buy their groceries

Hobbies

Newspaper

The Daily Mirror

Magazines

 

Transports

Gadgets

Where they often buy their clothes

Favourite Drink

Where they may like to go on holiday

Philippines

America

Italy

Spain

Paris

Australia

Tiffany likes this genre/band as she can relate to the meaning of the song, the personality and style of the band.  It gives her a positive atmosphere. Their songs uplifts her while travelling to college or to any destinations that she goes to. It brings her memories of her past with friends. It makes her want to dance with the music. 

Task 9: Final song choice

About you now by Sugababes

Our group have decided to choose this song as we are familiar with the girl band and their songs. Also, since our group only consists of four girls, we thought that it would be a perfect match.

• It will contain a narrative and a performance, however, instead of focusing on the narrative than the performance from the original video, we will focus more on the girl band and less on the narrative.
• It will be much simpler than the original video, the audience will easily understand the lyrics of the songs through our performance. 
• The narrative ending will be different; It will be unclear and will leave a question in audience's mind of what will happen next. 
• The settings will differ: Instead of a studio, we are thinking of filming the group's performance at one of our member's house, the narrative will be at the southbank. 
• The costumes will be different, such as the colours and styles. 

Task 8: Short List of Potential Songs

Short List of Potential Songs:

1. Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
2. The man who can't be moved by The Script
3. These Words by Natasha Bedingfield
4. Chasing Pavements by Adele
5. About You Now by Sugababes
6. Ugly by Sugababes
7. Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis
8. Missing you by The Saturdays
9. Ego by The Saturdays
10. Round Round by Sugababes

(PLANNING) Task 10: Audience task

'Pop stars , to some extent, symbolic vehicles with which young women understand themselves more fully, even if by doing so they partly shape their personalities to fit their stars' alleged preferences ' Paul Willis

This quote states that to some extent pop stars act out as role models for our society especially women. Pop stars influence women in many ways from what they wear to how they should behave around others. Cheryl Cole is a popular example , many women admire her because of her sense of fashion , her problems with her  relationship with Ashley Cole & her good looks. They aspire to be like her because she is accepted by society  so in order for young women to feel that they are accepted they try their best to be like  her.

- Name & where they live : Andrea Smith and she lives in Camden Town

- Age : 17

- Gender: Female

- Ethnicity: Caucasian/ Mixed race/ Black

- Describe what they do for living: She is a full time student studying 3 alevels at college & she has a part time job at River island.

- Say Where they buy their groceries: Sainsburys & Marks spencers

- Describe what they do in their spare time: Likes to go shopping , getting her hair and nails done  & going out with friends.

   TRANSPORT

GADGETS

 SHOPS

NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINES

FAVOURITE DRINK 

DESCRIBE WHERE THEY MAY LIKE TO GO ON HOLIDAY

         

Their ideal holiday would be somewhere really hot with turquoise blue sandy beaches , tourist attractions, a place where a lot of shopping can be done and entertaining night life . E.g Spain , Los Angeles & Greece/Malia.

 STATE WHY THEY LIKE THIS GENRE/BAND

She  likes this girl band because they are her fashion icons , they sing songs that girls her age can relate to , the sugababes have different types of songs e.g songs that our ideal for a girls night in , songs to dance to or to just simply sing along to.They have been around for a long time so she has grown up with listening to their songs which have influenced her in many ways and they are the reason why she has a passion for pop music.