About Madonna s Vogue Setting And Costume

How do you arrange a setting for a music video? Imagine Madonna's Vogue. Imagine the setting, then imagine the world and its improvement! For any design setting, it's good to describe the setting and White Dresses (recent Aracne blog post) the ideas associated with that setting e.g. sophistication , elegance.. Aim to explain then the nature of the elegance and the sophistication. The nice feather fan rises and opens up the world of Vogue and the setting. And that is the world! Then rapidly strike a pose. The world or setting of Madonna's Vogue is akin to the 20s world of Hollywood permeated with Art Deco influences. Remember the unique American Hollywood designs of the era e.g Cedric Gibbons' designs. In this world, strike a pose. Cinematography is about making a world and in Vogue poses are part of that world. Vogue is a classy mirror-mirrored world of poses, of people posing. What variety of people?


Maybe consider them as 'posers' , people who find themselves hanging a pose. It's all a recreation and the 'posers' must play their game of elegance and match one another in their poses. Madonna's Vogue is in regards to the pose of the physique ; pure and synthetic poses ; However Vogue was additionally a 20s dance upon which the video was based. The dance was also known as Performance. Thus the right way to you translate the Performance dance right into a setting, a cinematographic setting? How do you merge this into setting and costuming? These questions will not be answered right here but in the design setting for a theatrical performance, they're essential questions. Thus Vogue or Performance is about natural poses and artificial poses too and the whole dance aims to minimise the distinction between pure and synthetic poses. This is a crucial component in Performance. But generally the goal is definitely to accent and emphasize the distinction.


Setting: A terrific feather fan rises to open up our world and our setting And this setting incorporates the event e.g. within the choreography from one thing formal to something less informal. This can also be apparent in the costuming in addition to after all the dance and its rhythm. There are more poses at first and also you would possibly say that this is one thing pure. Posing is like a first step and grade in choreography. Poses are central to choreography and choreography in theatrical efficiency. How will we materialize things in design, inside design, costume design? For instance, on this video, you could wish to materialize a certain 'idea' of eroticism as obvious in the 20s? How do you materialize the ideas of 'eroticism? You need to materialize this concept by way of a variation of the Performance dance. You possibly can imagine these as phases in the design development. And there are the design components too.


And what are the design components of Madonna's Vogue? What are the weather of the setting? You can name the nice feather boa or fan an element. The maid distorts in a manner any sophistication and elegance that you might anticipate in the video. The maid also gives a glamor and eroticism to the refined elegance associated with the 20s Hollywood world; This is another design component. There are also the men in tailor-made shirts, one with a low slouch hat ; the pillar, a man's scarf, the overall night put on. There is also the peroxide blonde hair of Madonna. There can be her angle. There's attitude within the video. Attitude is another intangible ingredient in a choreographed performance and this angle is obvious in Vogue. We must take into consideration that the video has an 80s, early 90s really feel but this is not so essential. What is essential is the mood that is created.


Yes there's the 80s feel of the costuming particularly obvious in the 'heavy and draggy' trousers in the ultimate dance scenes. The jackets have their pads and there are other parts of 80s costuming as nicely because the wide shoulders such as the final 'power' look as well because the barely cropped and flared trousers Madonna wears in one of the final scenes. woolen tailored costuming related to the 80s. However there continues to be a timeless elegance concerning the video, the efficiency which is beneficial in doing any design challenge. The entire has a classy glamor and elegance about it and inside this world, we will choreograph the dance which is a variation of Performance or Vogue. In Vogue, seduction has a sophistication about it. The video is a seduction and this is another intangible factor. Using the weather accessible to it which are primarily its use of the Performance dance, the opposite intention of the choreographed efficiency in Madonna's Vogue is seduction. It aims to seduce. This world aims to seduce.