Category Archives: Music Video

Perfect production group

Here is my groups portfolio agreement that we have signed, this is helpful because if anyone drops out and doesn’t want to make the music video they have to due to this document, it says are strengths and weaknesses and what days and times that we can make and where it will be.

Final song choice and re design the pitch.

Starting Again- Day Wave

Lyrics

Here I go looking ahead
I’m starting again
I won’t be caught in the moment
I’m starting again
And I will take care of myself
I’m not done yet
And I’ll let you know when I’m ready
To put it to rest

But I can go on alone
I can do it alone now

I hate it when you push me out
I hate the way you make it sound
Like I feel alone
Like I feel alone now
I’m not gonna give in again
I told you the way I am
I don’t feel alone
I don’t feel alone now

Here I go starting to break
I’m looking afraid
But it’s not like that I promise
Always
But I can’t feel you helping me anymore
No, I can’t feel you helping me anymore

But I can go on alone
I can do it alone now

Here I go looking ahead
I’m starting again
I won’t be caught in the moment
I’m starting again

Here is our song choice ‘Starting again’ by Day Wave, it is an alternative/ indie song and it has a really nice summer vibe which we can use to create a summer music video via a performance along side with a narrative. We will use laid back clothes as well as props like guitars, drums, microphones and basses to convey an indie summer band narrative. We want to have fun in this video so it is essential we choose locations like beaches and places with pools to convey are a summer narrative. Our narrative will be amplified with illustrative movement as the we will have shots consisting of a protagonist that has no friends at the start but then meets these new people and starts hanging out with them and having fun, we can tell this story by having the main characters hand out in different shots to then his hand being held and then all the fun starts, like cliff jumping, kayaking and other summer activities. One of the ideas we have is to have no one calling or texting the main character to show his isolation and loneliness this will make the lyrics illustrative and meaningful and is in the chorus the words are “I hate the way you push me out, I hate the way you make it sound, Like I feel alone, Like I feel alone now.”

Detailed music video anaylsis.

This is my video analysis for Katy Perrys hit single Chained to the rhythm, by analysing this music video it has shown me how professionals use camera, editing and mise-en-scen to communicate meaning to convey a fun narrative for people to watch. We also see the how the directors portray the star image via the choreographed dancing and lip-synced performance which shows amplification and a bit of illustration in the narrative of the video. Having analysed this music video for MES, camera and editing, it has helped me to understand different parts and will help me in future to make my own music video.

Here is the Music video that I analysed.

Music video form and conventions

I have learn’t that different music videos have different structures of narrative as well as how other music videos portray the star image in different ways and how MES can determine how good the final music video is and if it relates to the theme or not. By analysing different music videos it will help me to create my own music video as I will have all the knowledge on how to convey a narrative by using MES and editing so that I can make a good final product by the end of the year.