Monday, 15 June 2015

Initial Notes On Music Video Structure


Music videos are adverts for the artists, not just for entertainment

Similarities with other adverts such as car adverts with variety of shots, editing techniques, Mise en scene and sound

Little bit of a storyline

Fast paced editing that fits with the music, cutting to the rhythm/beat

Variety of interesting camera shots

Narrative

·         Traditional/classical narratives:

·         Linear or non-linear: chronological/ non chronological order:

·         Closed or open ended narrative: whether it has a conclusion, or cliff-hanger

·         Singular stranded or multi stranded: single or several different stories

·         Circular: story starts where it ends


Need to do something that causes a stir and promotes

Music videos comprised of

·         performance: song, singing or band

·         conceptual clip: narrative and artistic

Majority are the two combined

Music video needs to be interesting with a variety of things, to be successful

·         Performance clip: vocalist in more than one setting

·         Performance setting: can be placed anywhere ;like their bedroom, walking down the street like in rap

·         Narrative: pure narrative clip, mostly conceptual whilst maybe relating to the lyrics, can also give a key idea of what is in the lyrics through the narrative without being illustrative

·         Artistic clips: no obvious storyline just an artistic form

Combine all of these in order to make a successful video

Media notes 12th june

Narrative based video

·         More meaningful

·         Easier to film and edit

·         Way easier and less work than a performance video

·         Bit boring on its own

·         Good with a good story

·         Can have long shots

·         Find a song with really meaningful lyrics

·         Can have vocalist or external actor as main character

·         Using external can mix narrative/performance well

Performance

·         Snow patrol youre all I have

·         Tracking shots =difficult

·         Perfect lip sync

·         Large number of shots and edits

·         Varied

·         Follow the tempo

·         Slower songs need careful choreographing

·         Hard to do just performance

Intertexuality=referencing films and tv

 

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