Initial pitch to Matt

Star Persona 

- We want our artist to look like a typical 2000's pop punk artist like Avril Lavigne

- Her social media would contain a lot of pinks and blacks

- It would also be inspired by 2000's myspace accounts

- We want to present her as being quite edgy and quirky but also quite girly ​

Set ideas

- We plan on using 3 different locations - a high school prom, a teenage bedroom and the performance shot. 

- We were Inspired by Courtney Love on Hole's Album "Live Through This". We wanted to use settings that are iconic and identifiable in Teen Movies. The prom setting is very prominent in these kind of films because they are presented and the culmination of the character's Teenage experience. We wanted to present this sort of a narrative by having the characters have a "Jocks vs. Rockers fight" that ends up making a mess of the prom.

Different shots

- We're hoping to have a wide range of shots to show some key camera skills and try to make our sequence stand out as there is likely to be a lot of 'schoolgirl transformation' ideas. 

- Our main stand out feature will be a sequence of slow-motion shots as the girl smashes up the room. 

- We could get some shots of a poster being ripped from behind or a cake behind smashed into the camera to make it more affective. 

​Cast

We will need 3 main cast members – two girls and a boy. One girl has to look a bit punky and the other has to look like a typical prom queen. Their hair must contrast so if the queen has blonde hair, then the other girl needs to be brunette or vice-versa. We then also need a boyfriend who will start flirting with the prom queen. 

 Main character( girl): Look for A1 girls – possibly Amelie (A2)​

Her boyfriend: Look for A1 boys – possibly Fin JB (A2)​

Prom queen: Look for A1 girls – possibly Emily (A2)​

Drummer - Look for A1s​

Guitar – possibly Bashy /Tommy

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Matts comments​

1. Some of the idea sounds quite American and stereotypical, which in itself isn't unusual for music artists, but perhaps is a bit overdone - can be tricky to pull off eg prom.  It can also limit your audience to a young teen audience in the US, and it would be nice if your artist has more global appeal.
2. Matt liked the idea of the punky, feminist / girl power star persona but felt it could be more intense and mature eg less 'destroying the prom and more destroying the patriarchy'
3. We discussed the fact that bands & artists with political statements tend to do quite well at the moment, particularly feminist ideas as it would give you lots of scope of things to post about for their social media feed etc.  
4. Perhaps carry out some research into modern feminist issues eg MeToo movement, Women's Rights in 2021
5. Consider how you could translate feminism onto screen eg women in destroyed wedding dresses, women as puppets on strings with men as the puppet masters, but then cutting their strings?  Use of chains?  Use of symbolic items in the set eg irongs, hoovers etc.  Could you even include subtle  intertextual references to famous women in power who have changed the world eg Ruth Bader Ginsberg, etc?  

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