RESEARCH (additional) - Music Videos with a difference

Gym Class Heroes: Stereo Hearts ft Adam Levine

 In this music video the camera movement is very    static and the reason to this could be the fact it is heavily stylised by the edits. The use of green-screen may have been used so the artist had to stay in a specific place to get the edit to match. The main special effect used was with the shadows of the artists when breaking the shadow in half to represent his heart for example.

* This brings us back to our own music video some parts work when camera is not moving as much because the artist is moving and camera might not need to move. Some of the shots i did was to just make sure the artist stays in the close up shot so i did not really go into moving about too much but i did follow the artist when she did move slightly out of the shot which did make the shot a little bad because the artist would move out of the frame.

Maroon 5 - One More Night

 In this video there is a movement of the camera but the style of this music video is a whole narrative you do not see the artist sing at all. The reason for this could be that the artist is very well recognised and has a lot of screen time in the narrative music video. The convention of music videos do still apply with jump cuts that also tell a story as it goes along.

* In our own music video we are able to move about with the character especially at the Tate Modern outside with the white trees we had to move in and out of the trees to see the artist singing. The main focus was to make sure we the lips moving.

So these are the two videos I recently looked at to get some ideas when editing our own blog. I am trying to stay away from Ellie Goulding music videos because we may end up just copying the style she uses for some music videos. As a group we are not sure at this stage if we should have stylized or keep it natural and just put it together yet i beleieve the idea of having a split screen would make our music video a little more unique.