Film Location (Panoramic View)

Specific music video genre analysis

Performance:
Performance music videos mainly focus on the artist and never really include narrative and have a large amount of varied camera angles, the larger proportion of the music video is the artist performing solemnly to the camera being the audience on the wide scale view. The music genre rock seemed to include the performance style the most consistently.
This style of music video is also commonly used when an artist is new, and wants to present their brand identity along with themselves being the main focus.
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Narrative:
A narrative video can and usually does include some sort of performance aspect. Narrative videos are usually made to convey meaning and may have cut scenes to portray or mirror short films.
Narrative music videos portray a short film that links the lyrics with the images seen on screen.
Narrative music videos commonly express the artist's meaningful lyrics, as seen in Bruno Mars's 'Grenade'.

Lyrics are usually long winded, instead of repetitive in narrative music videos and can convey a certain ethic or message, in this case Bruno Mars captures his feelings in the lyrical narrative and music video.

In this different styled narrative music video, Kasabian emotionally sings about the conflict happening around the world displaying in their music video a scene where they are enduring conflict between two sides, 'I'll tell you what to fear the most' is a commonly used lyric in the song expressing the hate in todays world.

Outfit inspiration

Nature Inspiration

This music video is extremely inspirational and creates the atmospheric beauty we wish to incorporate in our music video. Not just the shots but the lighting is very important, however we wish to create a black and white feel during the larger part of our music video. A range of shots and a vast amount of editing is needed to keep the viewer intrigued and to  maintain an exciting music video.
Having analysed the music video I think the shot which includes a fast forward styled zoom should be incorporated into our music video due to the editing technique we can show off whilst also conveying the lyrics 'Maybe I should kill myself'. These lyrics match this shot technique in my opinion as the zoom brings an intense motion which then fixes on the face of the actor in order to represent the emotion of these powerful lyrics. Other shots such as the general singing shots we hope to relate and achieve, meaning close-up shots, wide angle and mid-shots, as these are conventions that are always used in music videos.

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