Monday, 8 November 2010

music video shot types and editing

Throughout the music video am mainly using point of view shots, as well as some high angle shots (still point of view), to make the video more personal to the viewer, as if they were experiencing what the camera is showing. High angle shots up into the sky will be used to give the impression of being free, and to reference dreams, as it seems that the anonymous person that is represented by the camera is lying down before the next shot comes in.This also references looking, and this is a reference that is commonly used in music videos. I am purposefully making the shots shakey to give the video a more "lo-fi" quality, which is the effect I was hoping to achieve. Low angle shots will be used infrequently, as I wanted to give the viewer the impression of diving towards something.

I am planning to edit the music video together in a coherent flow which fits the tempo of the music, which entails speeding up shots, changing their order, repeating them and reversing them. To beging the video, I am planning to essentially rewind the entire video to the beginning, where it will start playing. I am doing this to give the video a further "lo-fi" effect, referencing the rewinding of a cassette or video tape, and also to give the viewer the impression that the video represents a memory, or a memory of a dream, and that this is someones mind rewinding to remember it.

1 comment:

  1. Again Mattis. Make sure that you don't get confused between the high and low angle shots. Also, it would be useful for you to refer to specific examples that you have seen in your research (existing videos).

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