Thursday, 11 September 2014

Conventions of a Music Video

Conventions

Camera Movement: (Illusion of speed)
  • Pans
  • Handheld
  • Whip pan
  • Crane shots
  • Tilts
  • Tracking
  • Circling
  • Fast 
Editing:
  • Fades
  • Jump cuts
  • Wipes
  • Dissolves
  • Narrative continuity is avoided
  • Cut to the beat
  • Fast pace/montage editing
Camera Shots:
  • Close ups of the artists face 
  • Extreme close ups of mouth and eyes
  • Close ups of instruments
  • Mid shots of singers
  • Long shots of whole group
Mise-en-scene: Overall concept/colour scheme
  • Unusual costumes (colourful)
  • Unusual props 
  • Cars
  • Hair
  • Expressive lighting
  • Multiple locations - linked to the genre
Sound:
  • Song is usually foregrounded but not always
  • Occasional diegetic sound
Other:
  • Voyeurism 
  • Incongruous elements 
  • Iconography
  • Intertextuality
  • Climbing in and out of the screen
Special Effects

Types of Videos

  1. Narrative 
  2. Performance
  3. Concept

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