Homelearning Set Texts Intro sheets

A little bit about Little Mix Formed in 2011 on the XFactor – the only group to ever win the XFactor Signed to: Syco(Simon Cowell’s own label)  / Columbia Style: Pop with R&B influences 4 albums: DNA (2012), Salute (2013), Get Weird (2015), Glory Days (2016) - All toured albums. Band makeup: aged 24-26 – ethnically diverse Number 1s: Cannonball, Wings, Black Magic, Shout Out to my Ex. Singles: 17 released in the UK Limited success in the USA – only 3 of their songs have entered the top 100. Their most successful USA release was Black Magic, which got to chart position 67.
A little bit about The Vamps The Vamps are a British pop rock  band with the cast of Brad Simpson (lead vocals and guitar), James McVey (lead guitar and vocals), Connor Ball (bass guitar and vocals) and Tristan Evans (drums and vocals). They first got famous in late 2012 with cover songs uploaded to YouTube. They were signed to Mercury records in November 2012. They performed around the UK as support acts for artists such, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Little Mix,  Demi Lovato, The Wanted, JLS and Lawson . They have since released three studio albums. Night and day was the bands first number one album.
A little bit about Demi Lovato Lovato is a pop, pop rock and r and b  artist. She has received a number of accolades, including an MTV video music award, 13 teen choice awards, five people choice awards, and Alma award and a Latin American award. Since signing with Hollywood records , Lovato has released six studio albums, including dont forget, here we go again, unbroken, confident, tell me you love me,  all of which debuted in the top five of the US billboard 200. Lovato has earned seven top 20 entries on the Us Billboard t 100 chart: This is me, Here we go again, Skyscraper, Give your heart a break, Heart attack, Cool for the Summer and Sorry not sorry.
Little Mix primary audience and why? Little Mix’s primary audience is younger teens, this is because they are young girls and want younger teens to relate to their music, for example their music video black magic, is set in a high school with the stereotypical geeks and popular groups which younger teens in high school can relate to.	The Vamps primary audience and why? The vamps primary audience is teens; this is because of their cute look which attracts teenage girls, as well as the high energy within the music video and their voice which makes a younger audience want to sing along. For example in their music video somebody to you, they act as teenagers and bring high energy to the video by it being on a beach and them playing football, volleyball and in the pool, this attracts teenagers as its things they choose to do with their friends and want to do with their friends.

Black Magic Setting:  High school Editing:  The genre is pop. The video is a performance. The video uses similar shots and transitions to show what their wearing as well as their figures. The video uses quick shots and quick transitions to entice the viewers to keep watching it. Mise-en-scene:  Popular people wearing lack of clothing which conforms to the stereotype popular people wear provocative clothing, the geeks wearing glasses which connotes a nerd and teachers pet, they also wear head to toe covered up outfits which connotes they don’t care about their appearance as no one would notice them.  The props such as the book connote a geek/nerd. Narrative:  Performance Represents women as:  stereotypical. They connote you can only be popular if your pretty and wear revealing outfits as well as a full face of makeup, like a ‘typical’ popular girl. Represents men as:  They represent men as only if their handsome and popular they will get a girlfriend or any girls attention. As the they represented the geek wearing  a old man sweater and glasses, and girls laughing at him as he dropped his book,, which conforms to the stereotype of a geek. Intertextuality with:

Somebody To You Setting: A beach Editing:  The genre is Pop/Rock. They use the same mid shots throughout the video to show off the boys ‘trendy’ outfits and the girls ‘skinny’ figures and their revealing outfits. Their transitions are fast in order to entice the audience to carry on watching. It’s a high energy performance. Mise-en-scene:  The boys outfits and cute looks connote style and trend, they get the girls because of their flirty ways and looks, connotes only cute boys can get pretty girls.  The girls are wearing barely any clothing throughout the video, their wearing either bikinis or short outfits and are all of the same size, skinny,  which connotes only pretty revealing skinny girls can get boyfriends. There is no one of colour, lack of ethnicity. Which conforms to the stereotype black people are not associated in white peoples everyday life. Narrative:  Conceptual Performance. Represents women as:  props, there used to look at and flirt with, they take one look at them and are determined to ‘get’ the girl. It conforms to the stereotype, said before; girls have to be skinny and pretty in order to get the cute guy. Represents men as:  magnets, as long as they are cute and trendy they can get the girl. As well as that, in the video they are seen playing football like a stereotypical boy, would be seen doing at the beach. The girls don’t take part in physical activity and the ones they do they are seen to be ‘bad’ at which shows male dominance as they are guiding them or laughing  with them. Intertextuality with: