The song we have chosen is Katy perry's - one of the boys but create our own artist whom we would call 'Norah Lane'. We chose this song because we believe that it will be a good song to create a story line which our target audience may be able to relate to. We emailed EMI asking them if we could use 'one of the boys' for our music video, however, we didnt hear back from them so we assumed that it was ok to carry it. After coming up with a name and a genre of music I created a personality for the artist to fit the genre of music, making the artist very americanised.
Norah Lane
Norah Lane was born on the 18th of May 1991 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents David Lane and Sarah Lane always encouraged Norah and her two sisters Neveah and Layla into performing, as they believed they all had natural talents from a young age. She was lucky enough to attend Alabama school of fine arts, where at 16 she was scouted by Robert Cavallo the president of Hollywood records and the chairman of Buena Vista music group. She had her first number one single ‘misinterpreted’ when she was 17, closely followed by her album ‘adolescence’ being top of the charts for 6 weeks. She is now introducing her new album ‘voyage of a lifetime’ and producing a video for her new single ‘One of the boys’.
Norah is an all round musician as she can also play the guitar, the piano and the violin. In any spare time she has she enjoys having fun with her friends and family, partying and riding her horse Ace. Norah has a friendly and outgoing personality and is always trying to give a positive outlook to her fans. Norah’s style is individualistic she is always setting trends for her fans without being a bad influence to them. She now lives in Santa Monica and is still producing her music with Hollywood Records.
Norah Lane was born on the 18th of May 1991 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents David Lane and Sarah Lane always encouraged Norah and her two sisters Neveah and Layla into performing, as they believed they all had natural talents from a young age. She was lucky enough to attend Alabama school of fine arts, where at 16 she was scouted by Robert Cavallo the president of Hollywood records and the chairman of Buena Vista music group. She had her first number one single ‘misinterpreted’ when she was 17, closely followed by her album ‘adolescence’ being top of the charts for 6 weeks. She is now introducing her new album ‘voyage of a lifetime’ and producing a video for her new single ‘One of the boys’.
Norah is an all round musician as she can also play the guitar, the piano and the violin. In any spare time she has she enjoys having fun with her friends and family, partying and riding her horse Ace. Norah has a friendly and outgoing personality and is always trying to give a positive outlook to her fans. Norah’s style is individualistic she is always setting trends for her fans without being a bad influence to them. She now lives in Santa Monica and is still producing her music with Hollywood Records.
We have created a storyline for our music videos to fit the words of the song Katy Perry's song One Of The Boys.
One Of The Boys
Do do do
do do do do do
do do do
I saw a spider
I didn't scream
Cause I can belch the alpahbet
just double dog dare me
And I chose guitar over ballet
and I'd take these suckers down
cause they just get in my way.
The way you look at me
is kind of like a little sister.
Not like a good vice
and it leaves me nothing but blisters.
so I don't wanna be
one of the boy-y-y-oys
one of your guys
just give me a chance to prove to you tonight
that I just want to be
one of the girls
pretty in pearls
not one of the boys.
so over the summer something changed.
I started reading seventeen
and shaving my legs.
and I studied aveda religiously
and I walked right into school
and caught you staring at me.
Cause
I don't want you no
but now you're going to have to take a number
It's okay, maybe one day
but not until you give me my diamond ring.
Cause
I don't want to be
one of the boy-oy-oy-oys
one of your guys
just give me a chance to prove to you tonight
that I just want to be
your homecoming queen
their poster dream
not one of the boys
I wanna be a flower not a dirty ring
I wanna smell like roses, not a baseball team.
And I swear maybe one day, you're gunna wanna
make out, make out, make out with me.
don't wanna be, don't wanna be, don't wanna be,
cause I don't wanna be, one of the boy-y-y-oys
one of your guys
just give me a chance to prove to you tonight
that I just want to be
one of the girls
pretty in pearls
not one of the boys.
do do do
do do do do
do do do
do do do do
do do do
A summary of the story that we have created is that Norah Lane is a 'tomboy' at school and is seen as a social outcast who people look down on. However, there is one boy called Kurt who sees her as a really good friend and they spend a lot of time together playing sports. What Kurt doesn't know is that Norah Secretly loves him but believes that he likes the popular girl Cady because they always seem to be flirting with each other. So one day she goes home and gives herself a complete make over to prove to Kurt that she can look as good as the popular girl. The next day she arrives into school looking girly, getting the attention from all of the boys and shocking the popular girl. She then walks straight up to Kurt who looks stunned and Norah finds that he does really like her and they get together.
Now we have the idea I have devised a technical storyboard of the shots that we should use following all of the research I have carried out.
The locations that i will be using for this are
Unfortunately our school doesn’t look as modern as they do in the Tween pop music videos, so this is the best part of the building we can use as an introduction. The problem is that there are a lot of cars around blocking the full view of the school when we’re filming. Again risks with filming here is that there are cars passing by that we need to watch and we could get in peoples way whilst filming and cause accidents.
This is the best location that we can use to set the scene with an establishing shot of the school drive and to introduce the ‘popular girl’ Cady. However, the risk of using this location is with using the car and other cars passing by, so we need to be careful with how the actor drives the car and watching out for people around when using the equipment around the area. We need to do it at a time where we won’t be causing any disruption to anybody around the school. 
This is a good location for the audience to be able to see Norah close up for the first time, as it is a tight squeeze we can show the popular girl barge past and her attitude towards her. Risks here are that in between lessons it gets very busy so if we are caught out filming at this time we could get in the way and cause accidents with wires around. 
This is the perfect location to film scenes using the entire cast as this is the type of place you would see everybody at school and watch people’s attitudes towards Norah before and after her transformation into a girly girl. There is a lot of natural light which is used in Tween pop videos and it looks very spacious and modern. The risk here is that there are a lot of people around and they can trip on wires and equipment can get damaged. We are also filming a scene where one of the characters bumps into Norah so we need to be careful that people aren’t hurt in the process.
Although it isn’t realistic for an Americanised setting we can use the school playground to show Norah and Kurt’s relationship as friends. We need to take note of the weather whilst filming as we will need to have continuity in the weather if we film on different days. Risks here are just general trips whilst kicking the ball and being aware of others using the playground at the time.
I’m going to use my room as Norah Lane’s room as it’s neutral and could be used for a tomboy. If we film in the day there is a good natural light to use and is very spacious. There aren’t many risks but we just need to be careful about tripping over wires as there isn’t as much space as in school. 
For our artificial set we are going to use the school hall with the black emotionless backdrop. We are going to decorate the steps that you can see in the image taking the focus off the emotionless background and onto Norah singing directly to the audience. We will use high-key lighting again focusing on Norah only. Here we need to be careful about Norah on the steps just incase she slips.I also needed to arrange the actors to use in our music video
Our main character is Norah Lane. We've chose somebody who would look realistic as both a tomboy and after the transformation looking girly. We will have to style the actor so that she is seen as somebody a young fan base can look up to as a role model.
We gave our target audience a selection of love interests for Norah and this is the actor that was most popular as he has darker hair. As Norah's love interest he will have to be sporty and in scruffier clothes to suit Norah's image.
The popular girl that we are using will have to look more feminine than Norah and always look presentable. we found this actor suitable as they have long blonde hair and wear quite a lot of make up.
We also need extras for our film as the characters friends or to make the scene look more natural. Therefore we have just chosen a range of people who would be good as extras for our film, here are a few,
The software that we will be using to edit our music video is adobe premiere pro. This is because it is the only software that we have access to at our sixth form. On the other hand it is very straight forward to use and is used by lower end semi-professionals as it is a non linear editing software.
As i was doing this Holly was drawing up a storboard, making a production schedule and the treatment.
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