Music Video Ideas

Today we are looking at the different types of shots that could be in our music video for example fast cutting etc, we will also be looking at different types of videos for different types of ideas for the type of dance routine, storyline, and any other things that could be related to our video so we can link it into our video. We have been looking at videos like Stolen by Kelly Roland for the sad storyline and how the picture were interpreting the music. Another video we watched was Sweet Dreams by Beyonce Knowles, as this had a lot of different types of dance routines to choose from and try to bring into ours and we also looked at the music video Long way to go by Cassie to see how she interpreted the music with her video to see the similarities it has with our video since we are making a video to the same song. All these will help us differentiate from the original music video but still make a good video that can illustrate what the music is saying in a different way and the types of shots used and context of which it is done in those music videos will also help us in our video very much.














Looking at current videos from Shontelle to 50cent helped us gain inspiration for our music video giving us ideas. A lot of close ups are used on both females and males, but we noticed that they tend to use a lot low angle shots on the males to make then appear bigger/stronger on screen.


And for example a girl group such as Girlicious we noticed that on almost all videos most of the girls in the videos tend to be wearing tight or short clothing showing skin. Where as males tend to be dressed with formal clothing e.g. suits/t-shirts etc, which is helping us on the types of clothing that our main female singer should wear.





































Beyonce on the other hand, in her videos there’s usually a lot of long shorts of her dancing either by herself or with backup dancers, also close ups are used to show certain parts of her body which would make her videos to appeal to both females (wanting to look like her) and males (finding her attractive). So therefore it appeals to a wider range of audience, which is what we are aiming to do with our video.



















We really like the shot bellow because it’s a close up of the two and it allows the audience to see the chemistry between them, we are thinking of using something similar to the short.

















Here is a great low angle shot of Ciara from her video ‘Ride it’, we can see both her facial expression and what she’s wearing, which is something we need to consider for our video. She is known for her amazing dancing skills and is one of the most sexiest women in the music industry.