First Meeting with Teachers

On Monday, we had our first meeting with the teachers. That day we had discovered a song that we wanted to do with a vague idea so were prepared to discuss this in terms of plausibility and audience attraction with the teachers.

We agreed on the song 'Teenage Dirtbag' covered by Girls Aloud but originally by Wheatus. We felt this was combining the two genres of teenage angst-ridden rock and the girl band girlishness. We believe we have met in between these genres which will be useful when it comes to planning our marketing campaign. 

We pitched our idea and threw more ideas around the table about how we could develop it, revolving around geeky girls wanting a popular guy. We thought more carefully about the mix of narrative and performance and how we could combine these effectively. We also discussed intertextuality and how we could incorporate this aspect into our video.

We also refered to these videos for explanation:

So far our idea is:

• a girl band made up of us three: Alicia, Olivia and Emily
• In the video we are acting as geeks, for comedy effect. This narrative needs to be worked on
• Completely seperate to this characterisation, we are also performing as ourselves in a girl group
• We won't be taking the lyrics too literally and will be presenting our own interpretations of them.
• Shooting will take place predominantly on location, with use of the studio in some cases