One music video that I looked at is CrushCrushCrush by Paramore. It is a band with a girl singer three guitarist and one drummer. Because we could not get another person to be in our band, I decided to join in. I looked at this video because it was done by filming a band but also to look at how the guitarist acts in the music video. I found out that they really get into the music and let themselves to be absored into the music. At the end of the music video they start to break their instruments, which we are familiar of when we look at a rock or punk bands when they perform. Our band don't want that kind of violence but I want to really show that I am enjoying being the band member and play the role of second guitarist well. To do this, I might give the lead guitarist more chance to play on her own also film her more. With the costume, the band are wearing similar clothes but one thing that caught my eye was the singer's hair. Because we are a small group band I thought of wearing our own characterised clothes which will make the audience easier to spot who is who. On the other hand, the location gave me the "WOW" factor. I don't think they went to the desert but might have used greenscreen to do it. If our group get a chance to use the green screen, we would experiment and film in different location backrounds.
I found lots of interesting camera shots in this music video. Camera shots change to the beat of the music, to do this in our music video we have to film in different angles.There was a shot where the singer stays in her position and sings but the camera moves to the side and makes the audience to see the location which I want to try. This creates voyeurism because it places the audience as nosy people. Lots of close up of the instrument and the player together in a warm's eye view also the shot of pip hole creates voyeurism which works really well with the lyrics and visual which shows the theory of Goodwin. There is a 45 degree shot of the singer frequently in a high angle shot and shots where the singer looks at the camera but also when she isn't.
Another video that I looked at is the Ting Tings; That's not my name. There is only one girl singer and a drummer but because we only have three people in out band I thought it will be good to watch and learn how they fill their space in the frame and draw audience's attention to them. They don't have a specific location but they use simple coloured backrounds; white,blue and red. They don't use any other colours, I think they did this to match the lyrics, visual and the style of the artists that they have built up. In our band, i want lots of different but interesting locations but I think I will consider of using simple backrounds as well. Lots of interestng camera movements are used in the video, there is a track top from bottom which leads the audeice to the singers and static shotsof the actors before they play. Lots of close ups of different things, not just faces but the drummer's feet and mic etc. In addition, I looked at a korean girl band. They are called the Nia and sang Remember the forest. The band has one singer, one drummer and two guitarist. It was really interesting to see a girl band in Korea because usually there ar olny girl and boy dance groups. I picked this music video because it is set in a forest and the lyrics matches the visuals which again is showing Goodwin's theory put into practice. It is not a rock or punk style band because there aren't culture of punk in Korea yet. Because of this, the way they dressed are quite formal and lady like. We dont want this in our music video but the fact it is set in the forest and in the middle of the ally way of the forest it cought my eye. Using the forest as our location it might not match but if we make the singer act as she is running away from her bully it might work. There are lots of shaky camera shots but which works well with the lyrics. When I am filming I will shake when I do high angle shots but like this music video, we can use it on purpose and match it to the music.
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