Our video is definitely is a more accurate reflection of teen life. In Taylor Swift's music video "You Belong With Me", it portrays strong stereotypes that don't truly exist in real high-schools. It includes huge football games with pretty cheerleaders and insinuates that every football player and cheerleader is popular. It then shows the "band geeks" and implies that every single one of them is an unfortunate loser, an outcast who is isolated from high-school. Our video shows the truth, of how the popular girl isn't necessarily the cheer-leader, the loser isn't necessarily the band geek, and the popular boy isn't necessarily the football player. The characters in Taylor Swift's music video drive around in expensive convertibles and have Cinderella-like high school ball-like dances where they show up in even more expensive gowns. The characters walk around in designer clothes, and are perfectly made-up with not a single blemish on their face - even the loser. In reality, none of this really happens. High school students don't all own or drive convertibles - we show in our music video how inside of hanging out in a brilliant car, a typical teen casual hang-out is just a picnic-type bench. We show how nobody is actually that perfect in appearance, and students do not show up to school looking air-brushed. Lastly, we show that every single happy ending does not involve a fancy dance and fairy-tale like circumstances. Some happy endings are normal and occur in ordinary settings like outside of the school lockers. Our video shows typical teen actions, such as texting, studying, day-dreaming, etc. Our video also shows the real hopes, desires and fears of what it's like to be a teenager. It shows how teenagers really just hope to be happy and desire to feel a sense of belonging. They fear isolation and being out-cast from their peers and society.
In the third story board panel, we see the "popular" girl surrounded by her friends, staring at a text from her boyfriend while the "loser" gazes longingly from the background. We use the camera technique of shooting below a subject - in this case, the subject is the popular girl. Shooting in this way makes it seems like we are below her and looking up to her. It makes her seem superior to others, as well as appear more powerful and intimidating. It also portrays the anger and intensity in her face, advancing the story and emphasizing the fact that she is clearly not happy with a text from her boyfriend. We also shot from farther away, in order to capture more in the picture. The background in this certain panel is essential. We shot it so that you could see the "loser" in the background, gazing in desire at the popular girl. This creates a relationship between the two people in the shot, showing the tension that is occurring between them. As well, the girl is standing alone in order to enforce her loneliness and the popular girl's companionship. Through all of this, the shot therefore portrays a mood. In shooting up to the popular girl, we see the anger and intensity from her. In including the loser in the background, we see the longing and desire that she feels. All of this enforces that necessary relationship between the two. This shot also shows characterization. It expresses the true personality of the two girls: a snobby, intimidating, popular girl and the lonely, longing, inferior loser.
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