Friday, 29 March 2019

Camera Work and Mise-en-Scene

Throughout filming I tried to vary my shot types as much as possible, although watching back my footage I am aware most of my shorts are medium to long shot. All of the footage of Olivia is as such and I wish I had taken some other shots of her, closer up. My initial edit and video that I posted didn't have much variety and I wanted to change that.

So I have been editing my video again, trying to get more shot range and incorporating some shots I hadn't previously used so that the video has more variety in the shot types. Because of this the music video won't have been posted on YouTube on the date that is stated on the website. 

Most of the props used and their purposes have been spoken about in my 'Analysis of my Music Video' blog post. One thing not mentioned is the phones seen in the video - this modernises the video. This links to the target audience as the age bracket are typically heavy users of devices such as phones. This means that the audience can relate to the video and story line. 

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Music Videos that Inspired me

When doing research to find videos that had a narrative and a dance aspect to it, I found that there weren't many. I did find many that had more than one narrative in it an switched between it, like I do in my music video. 

In an earlier blog post I analysed some of Taylor Swift's 'Delicate' Music video as it has a narrative and a dance component. I took inspiration from this music video as the story line of my video links to the dancing, as it does in Swift's video. However, I didn't have the same people dancing as acting in the story line component in my music video, making it differ from Swift's video.

Another video I drew inspiration from was 2002 by Anne-Marie. This music video also features a double narrative which is jumped between throughout the video. The one narrative is Anne-Marie singing in current time and the other narrative is her when she's younger and in school. This was the initial video that encouraged me to have more than one narrative/story-line to it. 

The romance and multi narrative idea was inspired by the music video for the band BigBang's song 'Don't Wanna Fall in Love'. This video features 4 different romances - one for each member - and this inspired the idea of a romance with more than one narrative. 

Final Product 2

Here is the link to my website for the second component of the coursework: 

https://benyons17.wixsite.com/ocrcoursework2019