Preliminary exercise: Music video extract
1) State the song and genre you have chosen for your music video. The song I haven chosen is "somebody's watching me" by artist Rockwell. The genre for this music video is pop/rock. 2) Choose at least three music videos similar to your song or concept and watch them several times. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene. BLOW - You killed me on the moon The short-film aesthetic as the start of the music video (close-ups and extreme close up) The setting is based in a forest. Mise-en-scene (props and actors) two men and one female, subtle love triangle. The car is a Roosevelt sedan (Marmon) famously used in the 90s. The synergy between the lyrics and the music video Medium shot of all three of the actors however throughout the video they're seen eight times shot together. The scenery is used as 'pathetic fallacy' as the rain and fog connotes the darkness and heartbreak...