Astronauts and All

This is a example of  a performance based based music video, as the video is of a band purely playing there instruments and singing. This works well for this genre, as there is not usually a good enough story to make a narrative based video on,  stereo-typically pop songs lyrics are usually about sex, and party life. Stereo-typically the artists there selfs are a portrayed as good looking so the production company wants allot of close ups, of the band. 

In this music video there are allot of close ups of the main singer, to connote sexual appeal to the female audience. And power, he is the lead so he should have more close ups, there are also allot of close ups on the band members playing instruments which conforms to the stereotypical expectation of the pop genre, as band usually have people playing instruments, its part of there USP(unique selling point) so the video has to demonstrate this.

Richmix

Here I was at Richmix theater on a music video workshop with the director _________ who directed spice girls  and Robbie Williams. At this workshop, there were a selection of schools, our objective was to replicate the music video Robbie Williams - Let me Entertain you. This was to get us used to being loose on camera and overall gain the understanding of a better performance when it comes to filming. We also got a few tips on how to film. In this image i am on the chair being pushed by a fellow member of the team from another school, we had a camera a chair and a person to push us. I was on the chair, there was other person handling the chair and a Robbie cam, my duties was to film the band, and get closeups of them playing instruments, and generally shots i though were interesting. The Robbie cam was primarily focusing on the person playing Robbie Williams, and the other camera was also doing what i was doing but on the opposing side. We were pushed on the chair in a semi-circular pattern, throughout the whole song. because there was no dolly, or tripod we was essentially playing those parts; we was given a tip by the director, we was supposed to place our elbow on the upper part of our hip, and lock it the best we could whilst holding our right hind through the strap and steadying it with our left hand. This tip was very useful, the footage was fairly steady, and we gained some nice shots. A disadvantage was the fact the person pushing me ran in to bumps on the floor due to wiring, so sometimes there was  a lag in the shot. 

I See Girls (past student analysis)

This is a Music video composed by a student at Hurtwood House, The song is called I See Girls and the thing i like most about the video is the special effects, they use allot of depth of field to focus the subject matter on the instruments or people playing the instruments. In the opening on the shot where the band member is playing the keyboard they clearly show editing to the beat of the track, on every 4th beat there is a abstract noise as part of the track, so the editor blurs the shot on each 4th beat and plays the note on the keyboard. furthermore this effect works well, and conforms the the pop genre. 

This is a example of  a performance based based music video, as the video is of a band purely playing there instruments and singing. This works well for this genre, as there is not usually a good enough story to make a narrative based video on,  stereo-typically pop songs lyrics are usually about sex, and party life. Stereo-typically the artists there selfs are a portrayed as good looking so the production company wants allot of close ups, of the band. 

In this music video there are allot of close ups of the main singer, to connote sexual appeal to the female audience. And power, he is the lead so he should have more close ups, there are also allot of close ups on the band members playing instruments which conforms to the stereotypical expectation of the pop genre, as band usually have people playing instruments, its part of there USP(unique selling point) so the video has to demonstrate this.

Music Video Research

 

This is a song composed by Eminem and Royce Da 5', it was published by © 2011 Shady Records/Interscope Records. For my music video I was planning on encorporating animation into my music video, in this particular video animation works well as the animator has included the sound tract with the animation,more specifically they enjoyed working with text. this animation is on nearly every keyword, or word they feel needs to be emphasized; so animation occured very often. in my music video i will compose i will use this idea of animated text as i think it worked well in this video. 

The video does not exactly show narrative, the rap genre typically does not though, the image the production company wanted to create for the artist is very stereotypical for the rap genre; they typically tend to wear hoody's and street clothes, the location is a abandoned ware house which implies a hard or rough life which conforms to the rap genre.

What is very stereotypical for the rap genre; which is what makes me like this video is the fact they use allot of animation, i have not come across many rap video's that include animation, they are usually quite boring based on the streets this video subverts stereotypical expectations and it works well.

This video is a narrative based story, it does not use realism as a method of reaching the audience, however the animations tell the story of how the rappers are portraying there lifes. They influence violence as a part of there life. they also objectify women in the video. one of the lyrics is "Nicki Minaj, i want to stick my penis in your anus" this is showing the lack of respect for women in the rap genre.