Cinematography

Camera shots

These are the shots which I will be using in my music video as these shots will help me to create fast passed editing and make the narrative more obvious to the audience. I also think that this will also make my music video more interesting as I I’ll be using a whole range of different shots. This will also help me in highlighting to the audience what is important in each scene and what might appear later on in other scenes.  

 

One of the first shots, which I will be using, is a close up shot. This is a shot, which is often used a lot on music videos, and a lot in the dance genre in particular. The stereotypical way of using the shot is to show close ups of people clubbing and there hands in the air, or around someone’s neck or waist, to convey the relationship between the two characters in the music video. Another reason why it is often used is to convey a purpose or to show the audience something, which they may not have seen before, or something, which may be part of the main narrative, or something, which may come into use later on in the video. 

    I will be using close up shots in my music video, this will also be to help convey the purpose of the song, which is to save the world and also to help the narrative move forward and convey the relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist in the music video. I also think that this will be a good way for me to convey the emotions of the characters through the video as it has quite a strong purpose. I think that this will be me to convey to the audience the emotions of the characters and how scared someone can be, the relief when someone comes to help them, and the look on their faces when they realize they have been saved; thus making the moment of the video where ‘the world would have been saved’ but instead of it being the whole world it will be on a much smaller scale, as it would be the protagonist saving someone’s life.

    One example of where I will be using this shot will be to convey the concept aspect of the music video. This will be the sticker, which will be reminding people the purpose of the music video, which is to save to world. So I think that if I keep on repeating the a range of different close up shots of the sticker this will be good as I will be able to remind the audience who are watching the purpose of the video and what the characters are doing are saving the world.   

 

Another shot which I will be using is over the shoulder shots these are usually used to help the audience see what the character see, and help them to understand the narrative better, and live the music video in the eye of the character. I think that this type of shot is used mostly in narrative music video, and not too much in concept-based videos.

    I will be using an over the shoulder shot so that the audiences are able understand the narrative from both the protagonist and the antagonist view of the music video, this should hopefully help them to understand better and see why they are doing what they are doing, for example why the antagonist may be mugging the phone, which could be for the benefit of his own family. I also think that by me using this shot that I will be able to convey the emotion on the other characters face if they are face to face with someone. I also think that this will be a good way of me conveying the superiority of the characters if one is looking up and the other is looking down.

    An example of where I plan to use this shot is when the mugger is eyeing up the protagonist house from the outside looking up into her window. This will help the audience understand what the antagonist can see and make it clear what his intensions are towards this girl and make it clear that she will be in the narrative later on it the music video. This also helps the audience to see that it is the girl who will be targeted and that it is the girl that the antagonist is looking at.

 

I will also be using a tracking shot. This is a shot, which I will be using tracking shot; this is a shot, which is usually used to follow someone when for example to follow the artist around their setting. Think that this type of shot can be used in all style of music video, narrative, concept and performance.

    I will be using the tracking shot through my video, but as I don’t have an artist it will be used to help portray some of the narrative through music video, as they are used to help me illustrate the visuals and help them connect t the lyrics of the song. Thus helping me to make it more obvious what is going on.

    I will be using a tracking shot as part of the tramp scene when he gets up to stand up. One of the reason why I think that this will be a good shot to use it because it is a steady shot, this could then help to connote what the tramp is feeling as at the point of the song which this will be used it will be a hopeless feeling which the tramp has about himself. I think that this would then help the audience to see even though the tramp is clam and is also hopeless. I also think that this would be a good shot to use as I plan to use it through the slower parts of the song, and have the track moving very slower.

 

One of the other shots I will be using is a long shot the purpose of a long shot is to give the audience a better view of what is happen in the scene, and also to show the audience an over view of what is happening. Another reason for why they are used during music videos is because it give the audience a long shot of the artist. Conveying; what they are wearing, what they are doing, where they are, and is also a way of portraying the attitude of the artist, for example if they were if they were walking a certain way, thus portraying the artist swag.

    I will be using a long shot in my music video as it will make it will give my audience a better view of the scene, and give them a good look at my characters, and where they are. This will then convey to that audience that the characters and not the only ones in the scene as I would also like them to see what else is there and the other factors which are involved. For instance if it was raining, and I just had a close up that would then just put the character as the main focus of the scene, but then if there was a long shot then the audience would then see the rest of the setting and could then feel more emotive for the character in this scene.

    I will be using a long shot when filming will be when I am filming the mugging scene this will be where the antagonist I taking the protagonists phone. For this scene I will be using a long shot as it will able the audience to see everything which is going on, so that they would then be able to see the aggressive hand actions, and the antagonist holding the protagonist in the fight to get the phone . The reason for the long shot will allow the audience to see everything, instead of only some of the shot. Thus could lead to the audience feeling more emotive for the protagonist.

 

This is just a few of the main shots which I will be using through my music video. These are just a few which I will be using to make my music video conform to the stereotypes of a dance music video.