RESEARCH: TREATMENT

Pimp my ride scene

One of the things you think of associating with California is pimped out cars, so show off how much money you have. 

We came up with the idea of using Ellie's car as the basis of our pimped out car for our music video Californication. We immediately thought that most pimped cars in California have a personalised number plate that says something personal on it. This was a great concept for us as recently Ellie had acquired a personalised number plate and this could useful in filming the video as we could show the transfer of the original plate to the new one that is 'pimped and personal'. 

We also associated wealthy female Californians with little dogs that they take everywhere they go for image purposes. Ellie has a cocker spaniel which isn't a really small dog, but they aren't too big either and therefore we thought we could use the dog for the filming in the car. The dog would sit on the front seat of the car, with a bow on the head of the dog to show that it's the prized possession of the Californian girl (Ellie). Max does know a friend with Chiwawas and we were considering asking him if we could use them but theres a strong chance we may not be able to use them.

We also thought that the car's inside would be very wealthy looking and girly, with pink fluffy cushions and pink dice hanging from the mirror etc, with even some of the car seats having pink covers of some sort accompanied by shopping bags with expensive designers on the bag to show the wealth that is shown or said to be shown in California. 

Bubble bath scene

We came up with the idea of different types of 'bubbles' signifying the Californian image of wealth. 

One scene we were planning to have someone in the group lying down in a bubble bath relaxing to signify the dream like place that California is and how relaxing it is supposed to be. Champagne also came to mind when thinking about 'bubbles' and this is a good thing to include in filming as Champagne signifies wealth, as you only have it on special occasions whereas in the California, the video can portray that the character in the video has it most days.