Throughout the summer I decided to explore some more music I
could use with a video, so I went to Reading Festival and I found a song named
Dressed To Kill, by Preston.
Idea:
I would want my video to start with a man holding shopping
bags from shops such as Selfridges. The shot would then change to a close up of
him putting on lipstick and make up, the video would then continue to show him
dressing up in a dress and tights, putting on a wig and heels. After he has got
ready he would walk over to the mirror and kiss it, leaving the mark of his
lips on the mirror, we would then see through the mirror the man taking a gun
out of the bath, and scrawling something on the door with lipstick. The camera
would them follow as he walks out of the house, and loads the gun. As the song
draws to a close we would see a still shot slowly zooming out of the door which
he wrote on, it would say ‘Off to paint the town red’ and then show the band’s
name under it. I feel that while the song itself does not correspond with this
idea, the title ‘Dressed to Kill’ is illustrated by the video. Therefore I feel
that this would agree with both the disjuncture and illustration theories
suggested by Goodwin.
Band:
For the band, I would want them to appear unique, in the fact
that the men dress as women and the women dress as men, I feel that their
unique style would give them a unique selling point, while also posing as a
good marketing strategy as they would be talked about by fans and by people who
would otherwise not pay attention to the music. I feel the the band 'The New York Dolls' demonstrates this, using cross dressing in their self titled album 'New York Dolls', which received critical acclaim from popular music magazines, such as NME and Trouser Press.
Tom
ReplyDeletegreat start to the blogging of your ideas - clear sense of genre and musical style with strong sense of target audience. You need to widen this research further afield to demonstarate good understanding of the range of similar artists and canopaigns.