The camera will track the girl's movements while she sings to the camera. Her singing is her performance. Also, fun dancing.
Doo Wah Doo-
Mouthwash-
Reasons for choices:
All of Kate Nash's music videos have performances as she always sings to the camera. In some of her videos she plays the piano/ keyboard like in "Mouthwash" but in all others she just sings.
Mouthwash:
Foundations:
Description of story:
The narrative of the story will be a recreation of the lyrics in the song. The camera will follow "Kate" as she is stalked by a guy that fancies her. Then he doesn't stick around so she decides she can be fine on her own and she doesn't need him.
Reasons for choices:
In all of Kate Nash's other music videos, the lyrics have a narrative and the video is a recreation of the lyrics. It doesn't follow the lyrics constantly, but if it did then it wouldn't be easy to watch. For example, in "Foundations" it is like she is acting out the story of the lyrics.
Description of locations:
1st verse is located in a street/ park, the camera films her and the guy following her as she walks down the street. The 2nd verse is located in the girl's bedroom, it is a vintage style bedroom and the camera films her as she sings into the mirror. On the verse where it starts "sitting in restaurants" the location will be inside a living room at a table, it will be filmed inside and on a projector. At the end of the verse "chatting on the phone" the location will be in a garden or somewhere where flowers are so that the girl can water them with her vintage style watering can. The last verse "I can watch a sunset on my own" the location will be the the same street/ park as in the 1st verse. We will use realistic locations.
Reasons for locations:
A lot of other Kate Nash music videos contain realistic, natural locations like "Foundations", "Later On" and "Kiss That Grrrl" Whereas, other videos like "Pumpkin Soup" and "Doo Wah Doo" have a more unrealistic and in the case of "Pumpkin Soup" cartoon style video.Foundations:
Pumpkin Soup:
Description of characters including costumes:
Girl (Kate): Feminine, girly vintage dresses (various) Flowery dresses, flat pumps, black heels and bright and colourful socks. Curly hair, bright colours on her outfit. She will have a casual bubbly personality that has a hint of sarcasm.
Boy(Admirer): Skinny jeans, checked shirt, casual shirt or plain jumper. Geeky black glasses. He will be all cheesy and loved up and have a romantic personality- at the beginning of the song. Same costume but without the geeky black glasses in the end, he has a cocky attitude and thinks he is amazing.
Reasons for choices:
Girl (Kate): Kate Nash has a vintage girly dress style, in some of her videos she is wearing a dress (Mouthwash, Pumpkin Soup, Foundations). She is always wearing bright colours, if not she is wearing sparkly outfits (Mouthwash, Kiss That Grrrl). Kate's personality is bubbly and fun but she has a sarcastic side like when she says "Yeah intelligent input darling, why don't you just have another beer then" in "Foundations".
Boy (Admirer): The style of the guy represents the storyline and character of him. Also a lot of Kate's videos have a guy in them. The only video that doesn't contain a guy is "Mouthwash". As this is Indie-Pop style music, the characters in the video have to have an indie style, this is why the boy will be dressed in skinny jeans and a checked shirt/ casual shirt. His attitude in the video will represent how he is supposed to be in the video.
Guy in Foundations, wearing skinny jeans and plain jumper.
Kate Nash in Mouthwash wearing vintage flowery girly dress.There are sometimes background dancers, but there isn't much of a routine, there is just a narrative. The main performer is the girl (Kate) as she is the one that will be singing.
Reasons for choices: The only video Kate Nash has done where she has any other performance apart from singing is in "Mouthwash" where she is playing piano in certain parts of the video. In all other videos she has done she just sings whilst the camera follows her about. On some of her videos (Doo Wah Doo and Mouthwash) Kate has background dancers, but their routine isn't too complicated. It is more about the song than the dancing. As her songs lyrics have a narrative, the video recreates them, which is why we will be doing this for our video. Kate has used background dancers in two of her videos "Mouthwash" and "Pumpkin Soup", we have chosen not to use background dancers in our video because Kate Nash usually has them dressed up in elaborate costumes (Mouthwash- robots) and (Pumpkin Soup- cats). This would be too difficult to get the costumes and the people to dress up in them.
Mouthwash:
Performers
Performers
Kate Singing
Mouthwash:
PerformersPumpkin Soup:
PerformersLater on:
Kate Singing
This is good. We could do with this for your digipak and advert too.
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