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Esthero - “Wicked Little Girls”

I want the look of the video to have a jazzy feel to it, it will have a lot of dance to create interest and keep the viewers hooked. The look will be based on the genre “show girls” but stripped back slightly, so it’s not so full on that it looks tacky. There will be a variety of looks of different people in the video, so everyone looks different and stands out in their own way. The type of dance routine I plan to use is jazz, this is because I believe it fits in well with the theme showgirls. I also would like the video to look slightly like the Moulin rouge and Chicago where its all about glitz and glamour. A lot of this will be done through different lighting and costumes. I will be able to create the look of all people in the video, which will include make up. My idea of the makeup should be big and bold but the main feature should be the eyes, this means fake eyelashes and full on eye shadow.

I want the video to be set in a jazz club with a band playing instruments such as the sax to get a real feel of the scene. If we are not able to find a jazz club to use, we can create the set in college where we can set up a band on stage.

In the video I would like there to be backing singers which could be wearing corsets to fit in with the whole showgirl/ jazz scene, they will be trying to seduce the men in the club through little expression, for an example winking etc. This is to link with the song, as it is about girls playing with boy’s emotions.


The beginning of the video starts simply with the girls getting ready to perform, so this shows them putting on their makeup etc, there will be a close up of the main singer with all her makeup, and lots of mid shots of the girls getting ready. From this scene we will cut it to a man walking in to the jazz club with a few friends, he will be dressed relatively different in which he will be in a suit and the others dressed less smart, so maybe jeans and a shirt. This is to show importance; also it’s to show this is the main boy who’s going to get leered in by the girl’s tricks.
We then will cut from that scene to the stage where you can see the band starting to play there music, there then will be a low shot where the girls start to walk on stage and perform. As you see this shot we will cut back to boys to show their expressions from seeing the girls. Then there’s a close up of one of the girls winking, then zoom out from the wink and the girls start to sing. The camera then follows the girls round the stage as they start to dance and try to make the boys join in with their flirty ways, however the main singer stays on stage. There are a few close ups of faces of the men with their “ happy” expressions on there faces, and some long shots of the girls dancing. There will be a mixture of shots from the back up singers dancing, to the band, to shots of just the main singer, I think the mix up shorts will keep the viewer interested. The end shot will be the girls walking back stage and jumping on to some kind of chair looking and laughing at each other. Then it fades to black.