Planning Documents - Costumes And Props

Costumes And Props

Planning Documents - Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Planning Documents - Location Sheet - EUREKA!!!!!

Location Sheet

I've had an epiphany! I decided I hated my original idea, I thought that it seemed typical, and something expected of a teenager's music video!

Therefore, I have changed the idea completely and have changed some of my location! So, here is my new location sheet! :) 

Planning Documents - Treatment Sheet

Treatment Sheet

Planning Documents - Location Sheet

Location Sheet

Styles Of Music Video

Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Lip Synching

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Whilst shooting this task, we would film whole takes in a specific shot, for example, when singing against the red background, we filmed the whole song at this point, which ensured we had enough footage when editing. Also, whilst filming we tried to incorporate as many different shot types, to make the video more dynamic. As a group we made the choice of using low angle shots, mid-shots, and wide shot.

When it came to editing our footage, we had made the conscious decision of lip synching through the whole takes, as this made it much easier to edit.

During the filming, some of our different shots in different locations, looked almost eye-sore as they were incredibly dull, and a bit ugly. But with our editing, and the amount of shots we had, we did not use this particular shot in the sequence.

I have learned that the filming process of a music video is very different to that of any other task we have filmed, for example the thriller we filmed for last year's coursework. With the music video we have to much longer shots, of the same thing to ensure the lip synching is matched with the backing track. I have also learned that the editing process for a music video is very different, as it has to be edited to match the beat of the song, otherwise the video can look odd.

Andrew Goodwin: Key Features Of Music Videos

Andrew Goodwin: Key Features Of Music Videos

Andrew Goodwin in Dancing In The Distraction Factory (1992) has identified the following features of music videos:

• Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (eg stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).

Skillet - Monster

In this music video for Skillet's Monster, it very much illustrates Goodwin's theory, that the video demonstrates genre characteristics. For example,  in the video there are close ups of instruments being played, and also the band are playing on a stage-esque area.

Bewitched - C'est La Vie

In Bewitched's video for C'est La Vie, you clearly see Goodwin's theory. It shows us the dance routine that Goodwin states Boy/Girl bands have. The four girls dance in synch all to the same routine.

• There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting)

Daniel Powter - Bad Day

This music video represents what is being sung. It shows how to people seem to being having a very bad day, often, just a Daniel Powter is singing.

Paramore - Playing God

In Playing God we see the protagonist playing God with other people's lives. For example she kidnaps them and poisons them. But this doesn't really represent the lyrics. It only really represents the song title.



• The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style) For example Michael Jackson and Katy Perry. (to be analysed in seperate blogs).



• There is frequent reference to the notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.

In Charli XCX's music video 'Break The Rules', the female body is shown in a way that insists it is only for sexual pleasures. As the girls in the video wear short, revealing clothes and at a point of the video wears lingerie.

• There is often intertextual reference (to films, TV programmes, other music videos, etc).

In the music video for Paramore's Decode, there are frequent references to the film Twilight. With sequences from the film, or the same setting, from the film, in the music video.