Shots we considered including in our Music Video

We decided to include this shot in our music video as it was set in one of the locations that we had researched and was included in the storyboard.

The reasons why we later decided to no longer include this shot is due to the fact that it is too normal, it disconnects with the themes of the shots we later took. (particularly those in DH) In other words this shot looked out of place with the other shots in our post production. In addition, too much frame is giving to the location so it makes the shot look as if it was taking from a high angle. We wanted our artist to dominate the frame because she is the most important aspect of the music video.


We considered including this shot in our music video as it allowed us to do rhythmic editing, a feature of Bordwell and Thompson's theory on creative ways to connect shots. So we took two shots simillar to this one, in the one above she walks away from the camera in the second one she walks towards the camera. We thought that cutting quickly in between these shots would make our music video interesting and it was a creative way to fill in the instrumentals.


 We included this shot into our music video because this shot shows our artist clearly and the words she is lipsyncing can be easily recognised. She is in the middle of the frame, there is nothing else in the frame but the artist herself. The casualness of her clothing allows viewers to see past her costume and focus on the artist as the unique aspect of the footage.


This is a typical lipsyncing shot, as it has an extreme close up of the lips to make her lipsyncing more apparent. It is a universal convention for music videos, which is why we chose to include it.

This is a screengrab of one of our performance shots which we chose to include in our music video. This shot enhances our artist by showing our artist's face, body and costume very clearly. The artist dominates the frame by being the only person in the frame, the lighting effectively makes her seem more interesting as it changes colours. The fact that she is laying down with her eyes closed aswell as the light on her face changing helps to give a quirky feel because she looks like she is talking in her sleep which is an act that disconnects from normality. 

 This shot connects to the "hidden pain and anger' emotions embraced in the lyrics, we acknowledge these as the emotions in the song by annotating the lyrics. As the lyrics said 'let me eat all this lies up' which suggests she is hiding something and 'such a hurricane such a hurting pain' shows that she feels pain and anger. This shot exposes these emotions effectively through mise-en-scene. (her body language)