Camera shots:

 

Music videos include many long-shots, close-ups and mid-shots; these are used to show the artist, location and emotions so that the audience is brought into the video. Not only are the close-ups used for emotional aspects but to reflect the words of the song with the movement of the artist's lips when they sing the song. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camera movement:

 

Camera movements are used to follow and to trace the artist/band, when the camera movements are present they usually include tits, pans, tracking and camera crane shots to add an effect to the video: make it seem more interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mise en scene:

 

This usually refers to the arrangements made by performers, props on stage or in a scene for production of a music video or any other media texts. Mise en scene puts in importance of something that is being represented, an example of this is ‘Mad’ by Ne-Yo when the mise en scene shows him walking by himself down the road in an isolated room: this therefore has a meaning as it relates to him being isolated by the one that he loves. Also the props include the dark setting, dark clothes and dull colours which fits well to the lyrics of the song. The angry, depressed mood is raised by the black and white colours. This is an example of what mise en scene does.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editing: 

 

Jump cuts are the most important editing techniques in music videos: this is because it allows a sudden change from one scene to another making the music videos seem more interesting. Transitions such as fade and dissolve are the most common in music videos as it allows creating different effects on the audience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lighting:

 

Sometimes the lighting will be black and white to create a specific mod (depressing/sad) to make the audience feel the way the artist is or wants you to feel. Also, artificial colours are used as they put the artist in an enhanced look. If the lighting is light and many bright colours are used in the background, clothes etc. it changes the mood to happy. Whereas, if there are dull colours used everywhere in the music video this implies that the setting (mood) is sad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound:

 

Most of the time, the sound are the vocals or the song however there are some extra sounds such as talking or any sound effects that may be included in the narrative. A good example of this, is Michael Jackson video- Thriller where they changed the video to short film with different sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Props:

 

These are very important to fill up the meaning of the song/music video as it all depends on objects within the music videos such as: the clothes, the people, the clothes etc. as they create the mood that the audience is supposed to be feeling. These all make up the meaning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costume:

 

These fit well to whatever the mise en scene is therefore the costumes go with the scenes and the song as it reflects the genre. The costumes as have a slight importance on how the viewers look at it as they might dress like them because they use some of the celebrities as role models.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colour:

 

These set the mood of the song through creating an atmosphere e.g. dark colours are mostly used in rock songs and hip hop and bright colours are mostly used in pop videos.