Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve - Medium close up tracking shot

Shot

- Tracking shot of feet, pans up to full body, he waits at pavement, camera goes across road, he waits for a bit, he starts to walk across road with camera tracking him from front, cars goes past him straight after he crosses.

Clothing

- The clothing that our actor will need to wear are black/dull clothing all over.

Equiptment

- The equipment that we will need to shoot this clip are the camera and the stedicam 

 

Firth 1998

Firths Theory
This is a theory where music videos can only be categorised into JUST THREE different types.

- Performance which is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert or other form of entertainment.
- Narrative which is a series of connected events usually forming the part or whole of a song.
- Concept which is an abstract idea.

Example of Performance based:
- Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth feat. Emeli Sande

Example of Narrative based music videos are:
- A Team by Ed Sheeran

Example of Concept based music videos are:
- Gold Dust by Dj Fresh















When trying to find videos to match into these 3 categories we found it very challenging as recently music videos use more than one concept. Although we then looked at music videos around the time Firth  stated his theory and found that alot more music videos around then only used one concept.

Conventions Of A Music Video

 

We analysed a few music videos in our lesson these were:

Rudimental - Waiting all Night
Mcfly - Love is Easy
Kelly Rowland - Stole
Green Day - When September Comes

While watching the videos we wrote down the concept of the video and what shots were used during.

Key Conventions
- The sound matches the narrative.
- Having the artist appear in the music video.
- Having extreme close ups.
- Showing people playing instruments
- Tracking shots.
- Low angle shots - more powerful.
- Slow motion.
- Fluid camera movements.
- Lyrics matching the narrative.
- Visuals - representational of the sound