Star Analysis Part 4- motifs

Gwen Stefani has many motifs one of which is her erratic style, her clothing for one which differentiates her from most other singers. she has had bleach blonde hair since day one, this is one aspect that her audience have now become accustomed to and has then made it a motif.

  Along with the red lipstick she wears that you rarely see her without. These pictures show you the constant repetitive motifs.

The main repetitive Motif is the Four Japanese girls called Love Angel Music And Baby as a group they are called Harajuku girls. they are the motif because they in every music video either visually or verbally such as when gwen sings "love angel music baby hurry up and come and save me" while they dance behind her.

They are the main motif mainly because they are used so much and because we have seen them in every music video so the audience expects it in every one there for it is now a motif and if you were to remove them gwen would no longer be gwen. especially as she is known to match clothing outfits with all of the four girls.

In the music video Gwen stefani Rich girl Ft Eve, the harajuku girls are used alot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlNpWYQunY&feature=related

Click the Link to see Gwen Stefani- Rich girl.

Moodboard

Lyrics

Verse 1:

Boy you, yeh your so hard to read but I adore you,

There’s something in them eyes that makes me want you,

But you’re so hard to read I can’t explore you

Yeh you, yeh you

Verse 2:

Boy you, you didn’t understand that I don’t want this,

Coz one day you’re my man, one day I’m his miss,

Then next thing you know not even one kiss,

I’ve had enough of this

Chorus: x 2

That first time when our eyes met yeh,

It was so damn strong it left me thinking,

Oh now your, your mine different feelings boy,

I’m in love with you, but is this loving true?              

Hook:

Look, now I know that it’s hard

But now that we’ve come this far,

Forget about the past,

Let’s move on go-fast,

If it was meant then it would definitely be,

Lets just wait and see,

You know about the lifestyle,

And you know that the life’s wild,

It’s crazy,

I don’t know if I could make you my lady coz,

I don’t wanna hurt my baby,

But you got me thinking maybe,

That we could,

And I don’t think we should,

Coz that’s too much drama,

And I already know about karma,

Even though I got a wife,

I might be at yours by the end of the night,

I guess this is something that we both can’t fight,

I know that its wrong but it feels so right,

Alie?

Chorus: x 1

That first time, when our eyes met yeh,

It was so damn strong it left me thinking,

Oh now your mine, different feelings boy,

I’m in love with you, but is this loving true?

Bridge:

(I can’t sleep…Easily…You and me… We can’t we can’t be…

I can’t sleep…Easily…You and me… We can’t we can’t be…)

I can’t sleep easily,

And I don’t know what to do about us,

You made it hard, you took my heart,

Boy…

Look what you did to us,

Look what you did, look what you did,  Boy.

The narrative of these lyric is about a girl who is essentially talking about the emotions of a teenage girl who is stuck in a love triangle. She and the male antagonist are basically showing both of there feelings, she adores him but he doesn’t want it any more “…I adore you, something in them eyes that makes me want you” his reply later on is “ I don’t know if I could make you my lady coz” basically saying they both have mixed emotions. The lyrics help to construct the mood explaining exactly what is going on in her life.

The represent Miss Sarra to be a young woman that can clearly relate to her audience and the audience can relate to her, especially through the emotions of the lyrics. Through the use of her music she hopes to help people of all ages to get through difficult situations and help mend peoples broken hearts.

Miss Sarra’s Quote:

“Myself only being 20 can relate to these youngsters and thought by writing this song it would help my targeted audience relate to me and that they are not alone in what they are experiencing. I understand them and want them to use my song as comfort and a guide to help them through their broken hearts. Love doesn’t apply to a particular age group any more, my song tells this to the wider audience.”

“The Video Will Be Up and Out Soon!”

Evaluation: Audience Feedback

Within audience resurch we asked the audience for there honest opinions, to chritasise and to give positive feedback as well.

The positive and negative feedback is as shown.

Successes Spoken By Audience:

   Very clear narrative

               It wasn’t typical

               Followed all the conventions

               Montage was liked

               Fast take and cut on the beat (synchronised)

               Made you feel the emotion of the song

               Extremely Imaginative

               A lot of effort had been put into the video

               It was a success, it was enjoyable to watch

               Story line was put very well together

               Montage was really good

               It was a good success

               Really enjoyed the location choices in it

               Really fantastic

               It was loved

               

Criticisms Spoken By Audience:

         

               Made it look more professional

               More varieties of performance like dancing

               Crop a few things down that are not supposed to be seen

               Use of Tripod more often

The audience feedback will help us to realise the mistakes that we have made but also the highlights of our music video.

Audience feedback will help us to change the mistakes or downfalls of our music video, so the next time we create a music video it will be of a higher quality but also help us to be more efficient with our time usage.

First Time Music Video Final Draft

Story Board (hand written)

Within the story board we planned out our music video using visual aspects (drawn picture diagrams). 

This helped me to stick to the storyboard for editing and how we wanted each shot to look like, it also contains information on the cuts and transition types, we also wrote what type of lighting that we wanted and if it was shot in exterior or interior.The story board really helped me to produce a clearley edited music video to a standard that we aimed to achieve

lyric book