Monday 11 September 2017

What am i going to take from the videos i analysed?

This is my first summary of how i'm going to film, but will be shown in full within my storyboard and timeline.

Camera:
When looking carefully at three music videos, i have developed an understanding on what features i want to take from each.
Shot 1: Zoomed shots- Use this to emphasise props and how they represent the lyrics, e.g. focus on lighter to show their is hope, then zoom in and focus on the lighter closing, e.g. symbolising; is there hope?
Shot 2: Establishing shots- These were shown in Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna video which shows long shots which establish a city for example. This will give my video a variation of shots and symbolise how far their is to search. For example a large landscape of woods shows the difficulty to find something.
Shot 3: Canted Angles: This was often shown in the video by the Beastie Boys- Sabotage. This particular feature was one i chose as it doesn't just give a disorientated feel, but also an old vintage feel due to the lack of stabilising equipment at this particular time. This will help keep the videos conventions and genre specific and not ruin the character of the video. An example of this will be a canted angle of the artist on a chair by a bedside table.
Shot 4: Hand Held shots: These shots will help to once again focus on the vintage feel of the video. For example the shots i intend to include of the full moon will be slightly shaky to emphasise the old style of filming which would all of been hand held.
Other general shots: I intend to also include further shots such as close ups and extreme close ups on particular objects and the artist. These shots will be used to emphasise a particular feature in relation to the lyric, allowing it to be clearer to the audience when following the concept of the video.

Editing ideas: The filters shown in the Cranberries video- Linger, display a very classic approach. The consistent black and white and dark filters keep it very old fashioned, sticking to the era and classic rock genre. This inspired me to use a consistently grainy feature throughout my video and have a particular feature.
Visions of Johanna gave me a very clear idea on how i wanted to keep the beat of the song so fluent to my video, including the pace of shots and how they changed to the music.

Mise En- Scene:

When looking at two of the videos; Sabotage and Linger, i discovered the Mise En Scene didn't exactly match my video, however Visions of Johanna was a hugely important video to inspire me. This video helped me look into vintage props that could demonstrate the lyrics. For example the vintage ash tray and cigarette at the start of the scene matched the idea of the genre straight away, however inspired me to go even further and get props to emphasise the meaning of the lyrics.

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