Group Meeting 22/09/11

We had a group meeting to discuss some initial ideas with our technician, Chris. By this point we had slightly gone off the idea of the Rogue Traders song as we weren't completely keen on the song and we didn't have much of a concept or idea for the video, apart from the idea of voyeurism which we took from the lyrics. We really wanted to go with a song that all three of us were 100% inspired to do. After some more research into songs by girl groups or bands with female lead singers, we started getting into a band called Soho Dolls, as we were familiar with a few of their songs from the TV show 'Gossip Girl'.

The song is called Stripper and is by Soho Dolls:



We all agreed that as the song is so clearly about a stripper in a club, we wanted to turn it on its head and do something a bit tongue-in-cheek. Charley came up with the idea of painting instead of stripping, doing a typically "manly" job, but kind of as if we were performing in a strip club. This then meant that we would need another character, a man, whose house we were painting, and he would act like a man in a strip club, watching us paint. Although he is watching us, the lyrics include lines like 'Don't touch the girls' so then he could receive some kind of shock or punishment for ogling us.

All three of us were very keen on the idea and Chris thought that it would definitely be feasible to create, and that we could potentially film in the Seward Studio using theatre flaps from the art department to paint on. He also suggested that we create another side to our video, so add in a performance aspect, as otherwise it may become too repetitive. It also meant that we could get across our band identity through our styling and performance attitudes, as during the narrative we will be dressed for painting in dungarees and overalls.

Group Meeting 20/09/11

Our very first brainstorm session lead to the idea of a girl band, as an all-female group who were keen to perform.
Charley had the idea of a song by The Saturdays called Puppet.



We thought it would be a good song to make a music video too because of the puppet idea - it would be really fun to have the three headstrong female singers treating a man like a puppet and bossing him around, breaking the stereotype of male dominance in a relationship.

However, when we discussed the idea with Ms Blackborow, she told us to be wary of The Saturdays as they are already a very current, established group and it would be hard to create our own identity, as we would end up just being a glamorous girl group, pretty much the same as The Saturdays. She encouraged us to go for a more rocky, rebellious style so we could create our own band identity without trying to fill The Saturdays' shoes. We were keen on this idea as it might be more fun to play a rockier band and maybe even play instruments.

After some discussion we favoured a song by Rogue Traders called Watching You, as there is a female lead singer and instruments, so all three of us would have a role.