Naughty boy- lalala

The music video uses narrative structure to express the meaning on the song, to block out all negativity. It shows a young boy on a journey from his family home all the way to the desert however on the way he meets people. I find this effective as the music video relates to the song in an obvious way which makes the video a lot more interesting to watch by capturing the audience as it it easy to follow and understand without being boring or predictable. The video shows close up shots of the young boy and his friends as they have sad faces to begin with to make us feel sympathy for them but towards the end of the music video, the message of blocking out negativity has changed the effect on the boy and his friends which makes the video seem a lot more positive and it is the new equilibrium. It implies that there was a happy ending to the narrative just like there is usually a happy ending in fairy tales.

The music video also mirrors the famous story of the wizard of oz as Dorothy who is as  innocent as the boy in the video meets a lion, tin man and scarecrow; these characters also represent the characters in the music video this again adds to the idea of a ‘fairy tale’.

Film - Spring Breakers

Spring breakers is one of our main inspirations, it is a film about 4 teens who rob a fast food store to get money in order to go on spring break. They spend their whole holiday fighting, smoking, drinking and then finally getting arrested. We took the idea of teens being wild and crazy, we also took their outfits and chose similar things to that. Alot of people love spring breakers so we knew this would work. We also stole their characters as inspiration for our characters.

 Briteny Sprears - hit me baby one more time

 Our video is very similar to this one because it starts with her in the classroom very bored and she then leaves the classroom and her and her friends are having a lot of fun going to different locations. It also ends with her realising it was all a day dream like in our video how Millie wakes up at the end realising it was a dream.

  It shows the same bored school girl attitude we want to show in our video. The beginning is similar to our music video because we want to show students in a classroom bored and show a teacher talking however none of the students are listening.
However we wanted our video to be different to Britney Spears one because it shows her and a group of girls around her dressed provocatively and dancing sexually. We did not want to conform to the idea of young girls in the pop industry being sexualised, we wanted to make it more about the girls having fun as teenagers rather then being provocative.

 Spice girls- wannabe.

This has a group of 5 girls doing what they like and having a lot of fun without a care in the world which is the same kind of attitude we want to portray in our music video.

It features all the girls lip sinking and jumping around very excited which is also something we want in our video. Although the spice girls are older then the people in our video they are acting as if they are teenagers doing what they like much like the girls in our music video.
In this music video it has all of the spice girls doing dance routines together in some points which is something we decided not to do as this would take too much preparation and choreography which we do not have the time and resources for.
This video creates the vibe of wanting to jump around and dance like the girls in the video which we also want to do in our video. We want people to watch our video and feel like they want to join in with the fun and get up and jump around.

Selina Gomez- Birthday.

 It features her and a group of her friends having a party on her birthday and the shots are all POV from what seems like other people in the partys perspective making you feel like you are there with them.

This shows all her friends around her and dancing as she sings along.

This video has her dancing with a lot of her friends and this inspired one of the scenes for our music video where we want to show lots of friends together in a party atmosphere. Also because she is a girl and a lot of the people at the party are girls we likes it because our video is very much for girls having fun.

It has some mid shots with her friends and we liked this because it showed how she had lots of different friends and they all wanted to have a good time together and in our video we want to show how the girls are good friends messing around together.

Ke$has video- Tick Tok

This inspired us and gave a lot of ideas for our own video. At the very beginning of the video she is in a bath and it is very bright showing us it is morning time and we can infer she has slept in the bath after a night out.

She has clearly come home the night before drunk and stumbled into the bath and slept there. She still has her party clothes on from the night before and all her make-up is smudged giving us the impression she is hungover. We liked the idea of her in the bath because it shows she is a party girl and a wild child. We really liked this because it is the reckless behaviour we want to show in our video. Her hair is also messed up and she has dark roots showing she does not care and big hair is also usually connected with partying as girls often make their hair big for a night out. WE used intertextuality here by also wanting to have the girls in the bath in party clothes. This inspired us to make a scene in our video with the girls in the bath dressed in party clothes with their make-up done as if they are in a house party and have taken the party into the bathroom with them. We want this scene to show them in a very energetic partying mood, all wanting to have fun. It will show them in the bath or around it with a few other people around to show it is a party and they will be singing along to the song.

Film- wild child

A film that inspired our video is Wild child.

This shot shows the 5 main girls all taking a selfie together. They are clearly all young girls as they are dressing up together and just having fun together without a care in the world. In this scene they were supposed to be dressing up for a social with another school and were trying to make the best out of the clothes from the only clothes shop in town, the local charity shop.We really liked the whole idea of dressing up with your friends for fun and wanted to use this in our music video. We are using intertextuality in our video by having a shot of the girls all in a room together dressing up and jumping around singing the song lyrics into hairbrushes as if they are microphones.

Film - Mean girls

A film that we wanted to subvert was mean girls. This film represents girls as 'bitchy' and that's not what we wanted to show. We saw the way teenage girls are shown in this movie and a lot of society, and wanted to subvert that idea by showing girls in a better light and showing them all having fun together and showing the good bonds friends make and the adventures they have together.

It does not show how girls can be good friends and have strong bonds together, instead it shows them all pretending to be friends and blabbing each others secrets to other people, and all 'back stabbing' each other throughout the movie. I did not like this representation of woman being 'bitches' so we want our video to show a new perspective and break the stereotypes surrounding teenage girls.

TV - Some girls

  tv show that influenced the characters in our video is some girls.

There are 4 main characters in some girls, all 15- 17 years old living in southern England. The main protagonist, Viva Bennett (on the far left), is the motivated one out of them and is committed to school and getting good grades for her future. There is also Holly Vavasour (on the far right) , who is prone to violent but funny outbursts and looks after her younger siblings, she also looks to Viva as a motherly figure (seeing as her own in absent). Saz Kaur (middle right), is an up tight maths geek, brought up in a traditional British Punjabi/ Sikh family, with a cynical but funny view on life. And last of all there is Amber Dean (middle left) means well but is the typical 'dumb blonde' and is obsessed with boyfriends. The 4 best friends stick together through everything an go through all there teenage problems together and have adventures together and have heaps of fun with each other.