2. SYNOPSIS
• Our video is based on the concept of inner
beauty and being comfortable with oneself. It fits
with the usual conventions of a music video as
the male is attracted to a pretty, popular girl and
the ‘nerdy’ girls who lust over him are invisible in
his eyes. However, as the video progresses the
nerdy girls’ appearance changes and they
become more like the popular girl. This reflects
the postmodern society we live in today as the
media had influenced people to believe that
physical appearance is of great importance.
3. CONCEPT
The song we chose links with this concept as it is
about two girls disliking another girl due to her
linking the same boy. Our video will challenge the
conventions of a typical relationship-based vide as,
typically, it is the pretty girl that is chosen by the
boy, but in our video he decides against this. This
can be linked to the film ‘Mean Girls,’ in which a
‘geeky’ girl turns pretty yet is rejected by the main
male character, who prefers her ‘geeky’ side.
4. INSPIRATION
• There are some music videos that inspired and influenced
our idea, such as Katy Perry’s ‘Last Friday Night,’ P!nk’s
‘Stupid Girls,’ and Taylor Swift’s ‘You Belong With Me.’ We
took the comedic aspect from Katy Perry’s video, where an
unpopular and nerdy teenage girl becomes popular when
she changes her image. P!nk’s ‘Stupid Girls’ has a
particularly humorous quality, openly mocking stereotype’s
such as the popular pretty girl. Taylor Swift’s ‘You Belong
With Me’ video features a nerdy girl who likes a popular
boy who is dating a popular girl, but ends up dumping her
and going for the nerdy girl. This makes our target audience
teenage girls, as they will be able to relate to our video as it
is themed around the issues that occur during adolescence
in high school.
5. ARTIST AND SONG
Kate Nash said that her inspiration to write "Do-Wah-Doo" was
from 1950s and 1960s girl groups such as The Ronettes and The
Supremes. She also established her reasoning behind the song:
‘The song's about one of my best friends from when I was
younger. He totally betrayed me by hanging out with these
enemies of mine - these perfect girls, who wore lip-gloss and
talked about boys and were really annoying. He and I had grown
up climbing trees, playing in the woods, and going on holiday
together, so I thought he'd be cooler than that. But when he
turned 15 years old he wanted a girlfriend. I was like, 'Well fine,
I'll just pretend I don't give a shit even though I'll never ever
forgive you, even when I'm 22 years old and writing a song about
it.'
6. ABOUT OUR VIDEO
• We took inspiration from this, but also altered
the storyline so that the three girls were
friends as children, having the same ideas and
attitudes. As shown in the beginning of the
music video footage, the girls get along as
young children, but as they get older they
start to like different things and acquire
different values. This leads to their drifting
apart and eventually disliking towards each
other.
7. SHOOTING SCHEDULE
Friday 14th October – shoot scene 1
Location: Shona’s house
Equipment: costumes for each character, camera, tripod, props such as
posters and toys for setting.
Also making sure we are able to use editing software.
Sunday 16th October – editing Scene 1
Location: Shona’s house
Equipment: costumes for each character, camera, tripod, props such as
posters and toys for setting in case we need to re-shoot clips.
8. Half term
24th October – filming scene 2
Location: Shona’s road
Equipment: costumes for each character, camera, tripod, props for setting in
case we need to re-shoot clips.
26thOctober – editing scene 2
Location: Shona’s house
Equipment: costumes for each character, camera, tripod, props for setting in
case we need to re-shoot clips.
28th October – filming and editing scene 3
Locations: Library/ Shona’s house
Equipment: character costumes, camera, tripod
29th October – editing scenes together, re-shooting any necessary clips
Locations: Library/ Shona’s house/ Shona’s road
Equipment: costumes for each character, camera, tripod, props such as
posters and toys for setting.
9. SHOT LIST
• Scene 1- Getting ready
• Split Screen 3 ways
• Close up of mouths
• Extreme Close up of eyes
• High angle shot of hair.
• Pan down of body
• Camera placed on the floor to show shoes
• Long shot used when leaving bedrooms
10. • Scene 2- Walking to school
• SHONA: Close up of hand on car keys, wide
shot of her getting into the car, medium close
up shot of her inside car, close up turning
keys. Wide shot of her driving in the car
• ELLIS AND CHARLOTTE: establishing shot of
the bus stop, wide shot of them waiting for
the bus, close up of front of bus, close up of
getting oyster cards out, low angle shot of
them getting onto the bus, two shot of them
sat on the bus.
11. • Scene 3- In school
• Establishing shot of the 6 form. Long shot of girls walking
into school.
• Close ups of boys reaction to different girls, point of view
shot of Shona and also the nerds as they walks through
school (shows the reactions she gets from people)
• Added into this scene is a quick shot of the girls reading in
the library as it goes with the song. This would be a pan
across the library showing the two girls reading.
• Wide shot of crowd in 6 form crowding around someone
handing out party invitations, point of view shot of Shona
as she goes through crowd. Close up of invitation, long shot
to show nerds not part of the crowd. Camera tilts down
towards the ground, close up of scrunched up invitation on
floor and one of the nerds pick it up. Two shot of girls
reactions.
