Reflecting Back On AS Year

 

AS Year

 

Just before we left college for summer holidays, late June we was introduced to 'Music Videos' in which we would be doing for our A2 Media. We breifly spoke about convetional features of music videos during lessons. Such as...

 

CAMERAWORK:

• shot in basetracks
• camera movement - panning/tracking
• wide range of camera shot types - wide, medium, long, master, close up
• variety of camera angles - corners, birdseye , high, low, tilt
• shots mainly focused on artist or band

EDITING:

• edited to the beat of the song
• pace matches track
• repeated shots
• cuts between basetracks
• non-liner structure - unlike narrative screen structure
• obvious editing
• transitions

 

MISE EN SCENE:

• numerous locations
• locations suiting the genre of music
• lots of costume changes
• styling of hair and makeup
• high key of lighing

 

GENERIC SIGNIFIERS:

• clothes
• locations
• pace of editing
• style of choreograpgy
• age of artists and performers
 

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION:

• reference to other media
• style of camerawork
• style of editing
• locations
• props and costumes
• performances