Vlog - Purpose of a music video

No Spaces in Between - Shuab Ahmed (Final Product)

Evaluation 

Message: 

The main concept and story of this video is the journey of a Boy waking up in the morning, getting dressed, catching the bus to the studio and making a song but there's a twist. The group and I decided we didn't just want me going through this whole process, but we wanted a girl playing my part. We studied videos such as Ciara's Like a Boy and Beyonce's If i were a boy and we wanted to give a girl the role of a boy. We thought it would be much better then watching a guy wake up and go to the studio. We also thought that we can't just have a girl go from her bed to the studio but we wanted something added to that. We come across another video made by ice cube where he had specific colours in his video and the rest was black and white. We took on that idea and decided to have everything black and white except for the colour blue. We thought that blue was a manly colour and we felt that if we incorporated that with the girl acting like a boy it would be a good idea. 

What Impact has this video had: 

The main impact of this video was to portray that women can do what ever men can do and that was the message we wanted to portray. A women can be as manly as a man which is sown through the colour blue in this video. 

Production: 

• Target Audience: the intended target audience is anyone above the age of 16 due to the inappropriate language that is used a few times. 
• Software Used: The software used was Adobe Premier and for the Blue colour we used Nikon with colour selection. 
• Shots Used: A variety of shots were used but mostly medium shots to show the face and the hand movements. A few close up were used to show the writing on the mask for example and some POV shots were taken to show Sam going into the bus. 

Improvements: 

Some one the shots could be improved. Added s few more clips to add a variety of cut shots. Except for just blue, we could add more manly colours to emphasise manlyness. We could have also went into a professional recording studio if we could which could of made the video look more professional. 

Convention in Narrative videos

In some narrative based music videos, directors and camera men incorporate a establishing shot so that the opening scene can give the viewer a idea of where the music video is based.

In these shots you can see the director has right from the start introduced to us where the story is set.

performance videos also include a close up of the artist singing along to the lyrics.

in these shots, taylor and katy are lip syncing to their song to make it look like they are singing along to it.

Some artist relate their videos to an artwork or something that has inspired them. in the picture below Bruno Mars was inspired by the art work of Erika Iris Simmons to create his music video.

Conventions - Lady Gaga Music videos

As you can see in the above picture the repetitive camera shot were Lady gaga is next to a man. This shot is filmed using a close up of her and the other man. This could resemble religious scriptures where people say that the devil whispers in your ears and this represent gaga in her scenes in these shots.

All the shots above are all close ups of lady gaga. she likes to incorporate close up shots of her face because it shows her emotion and she also takes the opportunity of a close up to show off her make up on her face.

History of music video

History of Music videos on Prezi