Music Video
To start our Media A2 course, we explored the ways in which bands and artists are represented in music videos. For example, we looked at the way in which Beyonce is usually portrayed in videos such as "Crazy in Love" and "All the Single Ladies" especially compared to her "Halo" music video. We commented on genre, narrative, purpose, audience, mise-en-scene, camera tricks, editing and any extra sound used.
We then got into groups and chose an artist and song to make a music video for. I worked with Rosie and Josh and we made ours for Example - Change the way you kiss me. We began by listening to the song and deciding its genre and narrative and then creating a relevant story board. Together we filmed each section of our narrative and then edited them together using Mac computers. The main problem we encountered was finding enough people willing to be in our party scene, this made us realise how difficult certain scenes can be to organise and film. Later, we also realised the importance of good lighting for all shots as it turned out our party scene was too dark.
