Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Five Music Videos For Consideration

1. 'Rolling In The Deep' - Adele
Although the video is fairly repetitious in the shots it uses, I like the use of strong visual aspects to this video. For instance, the hundreds of glasses of water vibrating on the floor looks nice in HD, as does the slow motion of the plates being smashed against the wall.

2. 'Set The World On Fire' - The King Blues
I really like this video, for three reasons. Firstly, there is a 'tongue in cheek' humour throughout where the video never takes itself too seriously. The second is the use of bright primary colours, which contrasts our preliminary task, which, in terms of mise-en-scene was very dark and gloomy, and I would like something more bright and open. The third is the exaggerated style, almost comic like, which is the style we were considering for the rejected song, '1+1'

3. 'Stay The Night' - James Blunt
I like the way this music video has 'captured' the mood and feel of a hot summers day. The actual visuals are simple in this video, but the subtle yellow filter makes the video feel warm and comfortable and relatable. Although I don't want to make a video of this style, it would be nice to capture a mood this effectively.

4. 'Let's Hang The Landlord' - The King Blues
Another King Blues song, but I like the British style of their videos. This is very different, building up a picture and scenes on a blank canvas, like the idea of painting a picture. It's interesting how they use one shot throughout but keep the video moving and interesting.

5. 'Moves Like Jagger' - Cover Version (original by Maroon 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0X5QODsHM&feature=related
This is a more 'out of the box idea'. It's not an official music video, but an amateur one which looks professional and is very easy to do. I stumbled across it on Youtube, and liked how it looks so professional and is so simple, so thought it would be worth showing and commenting on.

Initial Music Video Ideas

Today, we discussed possible tracks that we could use for a music video.

The main track that we seriously considered was '1+1' by Scouting For Girls, and we presented our ideas to the class. However, the general feedback was that although our ideas for the track were good, the track itself wasn't. The conclusion was the track was too 'suggestive' to use for a music video, and we are better off with a similar style track but which has less innuendo in it.

We haven't decided that this is definitely the genre we want to go for, but it is one of the possibilities.