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Task 1: Chapter 1:

Intro to music videos

Task 1-Chapter 1

What is a music video?

A music video is a short film or video that is used to go with a piece of music. Music videos are usually used to market and promote their songs, however, some artist may choose to create one for only artistic purposes.

Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into alive in the 1980s, when MTV based their content around them.

How can they appeal to an audience?

A music video should be entertaining and interesting as well as appealing to the target audience of the music genre. One of the most important aspects of marketing and producing is figuring out who your target audience is e.g Who would be interested in your music video?

 A demographic is a set of objective characteristics that describe a group of people, things like age, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, location, and sometimes education and lifestyle. The most important characteristic is age.

What can they say about the band/artist? (genre, beliefs, ideology, messages, etc.) 

Music artists are often creative all-around and want to expand their artistic vision into new mediums and tell their message in a new way. Music videos can link to genre based on the conventions,

messages, and ideology that reflect their own personal feelings/opinions, for example, the colour red could connote a love song.

What was the first music video? How did MTV ‘change the game’?

There were many made at the beginning of the sound era in the late 1920s, and you could probably point to earlier short films made in the silent era that were accompanied by live music and claim them to be ‘music video’. For sure there was a video jukebox machine that was placed in bars and similar venues from the 1940s onwards. 

The first music video to make a massive mainstream impact in the rock era was Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody — it made the record companies realize they could engage their audience by means other than CD's and records which had no visual properties. A lot of people launched their careers on the back of that one, including the company that produced ‘Rhapsody’ and went on to make ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ for The Buggles which was the first promo clip broadcast by MTV.

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Chapter 2- 

There are 3 main types of music videos:

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Performative - A video that highlights the artist/band performing the track.

 - Performance videos often use a variety of shots and angles as well as repeated sequences/settings.

- The videos will either focus on the solo artist (through camerawork) or will show band members performing/playing instruments

- They can be filmed as a live performance or inside a studio

(BRUNO MARS-THE LAZY SONG- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLexgOxsZu0)

The lyrics correspond with the visuals a lot. When Bruno Mars is singing he acts out his lyrics when he is able to in the music video. Bruno Mars does many gestures and movements to correspond with his lyrics.

The Monkey costume is a visual that shows a relationship with the lyrics. Monkeys are not lazy but they don’t do anything throughout the day. All Monkeys do is swing from branch to branch and eat bananas. The Lazy song is funny because there are not any serious issues they talk about in the song. The song is being unintentionally sexist because there is no woman in the song and the song is indirectly telling the audience and or listeners that woman should be doing all the work and men should be sitting at home watching TV and laying at their bed.

Goodwin analysis: 

I can apply the 1st key concept from Goodwin's theory which is LINK BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS. I can apply this concept because the song that they using is quite an easy going commercial song and are talking about having a lazy day in, in the music video, the actors are just chilling in their underpants as if in they haven't got a thing in the world to do. The 2nd key concept from Goodwin's theory I can apply is NOTIONS OF LOOKING because the actors are continuously looking at the camera with a monkey mask on whilst dancing in a childlike manner which could make the audience feel awkward.

Narrative - Mainly of a storyline relating the song throughout the video.

-It can be performed by the artists or hired extras. The artists can hire/ rent out locations, props and hire extras

-They're also known for getting shots involving performances from the artist/band to break the video up and keep the audience's interest.

-These type of videos are often used for songs that feature in films, with scenes from the film cut into the video to promote the film and the son would promote the film a joint effort between artist and film producers to promote each other work this is a common theme in many narrative music videos e.g lose yourself, Eminem- 8miles.

(GANGSTA by KEHLANI ft suicide squad- https://youtu.be/LAYgZEMMWxo )

Kehlani transforms into supervillain Harley Quinn, directed video for “Gangsta” off the Suicide Squad soundtrack.

The song’s dark production and Kehlani haunting vocals are matched with the visuals. she's surrounded by broken glass singing the chorus “I need a gangsta to love me better than all the others do.”

It speaks a lot to relationships, "making a choice, and at the same time how there’s also power in surrendering to somebody.” Suicide Squad: The Album was released on Friday along with the blockbuster film, which features Margot Robbie in the Harley Quinn role. this is a good eg of a narrative music video since it uses footage from the film

Goodwin analysis:

I can apply the 1st key concept from Goodwin's theory which is a hybrid of PERFORMANCE BASED, NARRATIVE BASED AND CONCEPT BASED MUSIC VIDEOS. It has performative elements due to Kehlani herself being featured in her own video and shots of her singing and also highlighting Harley's gymnastic traits and flexibility hanging upside down in the cage. The narrative sections of this music video are the scenes from the film SUICIDE SQUAD highlighting their acting and promoting their film as well. Lastly, it has some of the connotations of a concept music video, for example, the type of visuals that are used and what's going on in the scenes left up for interpretation. 

Concept/experimental -This is a style of a music video that is based around a concept or an idea. 

 - Usually, include unusual images or narratives to maintain audience engagement.

- It is possible that the video will have no connection with the lyrics.

- Some videos will have sequences with no obvious narrative and lip syncing

(IM NOT RACIST by Joyner Lucas - https://youtu.be/43gm3CJePn0 )

In this music video, it beginning in some sort of ambiguous empty room for a location as there aren't any establishing shots and the first thing you notice is heavy symbolism since the audience notices a white man wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap connoting that he sides with Donald Trump. Then he starts lip syncing to Joyner Lucas's lyrics which seems to come across as a stereotypical "white mans" perspective on what he thinks of black people (racism in general). He finishes his verse then the instrumental play out for a couple of beats whilst the camera pans to a young black man on the other side of the table then appears to draw out the stereotypes that he attacked on and said some stereotypes on "white people" before the two embraces at the end of the video and try to understand each other.

Goodwin analysis:

I can apply the 1st key concept from Goodwin's theory which is INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES and visuals and lyrics.  I can apply this concept because, Whilst the video doesn't make reference to another text, it has strong political and cultural references. The "MAGA" hat is a political reference to the Trump administration in power today. With recent events such as Charlottesville, many believe the hat is a symbol of white supremacy. This ties in with the central message of the song and lyrics of the song 'I'm not racist'". 

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Chapter 3

The artist I'm studying for my case is Donald McKinley Glover, Also known as Childish Gambino and he is a comedian, actor, writer, DJ, and director. Donald was born 25th September 1983 in 2016. He got the name 'Childish Gambino' from an online Wu-Tang name generator and likes being called by his real name when acting. He starred in the show “Community” and landed a Comedy Central stand-up special before releasing his 2011 album, he released “Awaken My Love!” in 2016, The same year, he premiered his award-winning comedy series “Atlanta,” cementing his position as a new pop-culture mogul. He also has two children but he tries to keep his personal life really private. The songs that I will be analyzing is "This is America", "3005" and "It feels like summer".​​​

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This is America 

In this music video, the overall message is him trying to get across is about guns and violence in America and the fact that we deal with them and ignore them of forgetting the issues quickly after it happened and on the other hand, is a part of our national conversation. It was released May 5, 2018, you can Digital download it, is a hybrid of the Trap and Afrobeat genre and written by Donald Glover, Ludwig Göransson and Jeffery Lamar Williams.

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The first initial shot is a wide shot of a man playing a guitar alone until Gambino shoots the man and hands the gun to another man, who safely wraps it in a red cloth as the man is dragged away. This moment represents the father of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager killed in 2012. The position he is is when doing that is mimicking the minstrel character Jim Crow also was the name of the pre-Civil rights-era segregation laws. The timing of when he gets into that, it happens during the song’s transition from choir type tones to a trap sound.

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These two shots are both long/wide shots it's connoting bible references-Revelations 6:8: “I looked, and behold a pale horse: and the name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” In the video, there is someone riding a white horse all in black representing death while he is followed by Hell (represented by police) going totally unnoticed because of dancing. The "dancing" around things like police brutality and gun violence could be seen as a metaphor for how in this country, people can dance around these issues.

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This is a wide shot of the dancers dancing in the middle of a riot scene, which also shows some moves of old black stars like Pharrell Williams in happy and Michael. but the dancers do specific famous moves one of these is the Gwara Gwara from South Africa, which went viral to DJ Bongz. This also can show the mix of black cultures dances around the world, showing how they become intertwined with other societies. He also repeats the lyric "get your money, black man", a reference to how much is owed to those who have brought their work. Throughout the video, Gambino is dancing shirtless and moving around in front of dramatic and often gruesome scenes through the video, he is constantly dancing to distract the audience from the destruction going on in the background.

3005-

Instead of capturing that the romantic lyrics, we see a Ferris Wheel with Childish and a teddy bear. The bear gives off a creepy silent aurora whilst blinking and his head moves to keep looking at Gambino then back. Gambino starts rapping taking no notice to the oversized teddy bear beside him. When the hook comes in, the camera zooms into his straight face (which would be considered as the performative section of the video)getting shots of their surroundings before returning to the mid shot frame with Gambino and the bear. You notice that the bear has been attacked at the beginning of his second verse, and by the end of the second chorus, he’s been brutally beaten.

There have been many speculations about what this means, but my favorite is that the bear is a representation of Gambino’s childishness and the death of his innocence, but that has nothing to do with the script. There’s also a very suspicious fire in the background that no one on the Ferris wheel takes note of including Gambino, just how he doesn't take notice of the bear, even though its right there in his face. Before the bear becomes absolutely destroyed it comes across as Glover decides as that he can’t live with what's going on around him anymore and leaves it all behind and wakes up mental state if mind from the sort of dream—as seen in the “Zealots of Stockholm” outro section.

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It feels like summer-

This music video is an animated version of Gambino strolling down through his neighbourhood, bumping into famous artists. It was released on September 1, 2018. It's a mix of cultural America in 2018 filled with brief sequences of celebrities. The co-directors of the video are Greg Sharp and Ivan Dixon, the animators who worked on this has been used for The Simpsons and Adult Swim. The chorus is about our global warming is getting worse and water is running out and how we're destroying the world we live in due to our selfish ways.

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In this main mid tracking shot, Donald is seen strolling down the road and is just observing everything that is going around him. This links with one of Goodwin's theories, which is the notion of looking he does this, not to make the shot tense but rather a more relaxed atmosphere especially with the mise en scene (the song, the sun in the setting and his clothes are very chilled). Despite his surroundings which could convey Donald Glover usually avoiding in getting involved in on dramas and controversies in the industry.

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This is an animated music video, therefore, everything is animated. There is a long shot of the cartoon version of Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott playing with building blocks. This shot is a juxtaposition as these are full grown adults playing with children's building blocks, this signifies their petty and immature behaviour, due to them squabbling and racing for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart last year August.

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There is a long shot of the cartoon version of Kid Cudi looking depressed and miserable. I can apply one of the Goodwin concepts 'Lyrics and visuals' because that shot is shown on the lyric "Oh, I know you know the pain" and Kid Cudi has been opened up about his struggle with depression. The black background could represent how he feels isolated and in complete darkness.

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This is an animated music video, therefore, everything is animated. There is a mid shot of the cartoon version of Kanye West crying whilst being embraced by Michelle Obama as last year. This shot captures Kayne's hat in this shot for symbolism purposes as he supports trump. Eventually, the shot zooms into Kayne's and Michelle's face which is an emotional close-up as you can see each of their facial expressions for e.g. him crying connotes that he is going through some personal issues, Michelle having a calming expression connotes being a mother like a figure for Kanye and doesn’t have a mother.

Chapter 3(Task 3)

 Goodwin's theory is based upon 8 key concepts

1) LINKS BETWEEN MUSIC AND VISUALS

-The pace and rhythm of the music would usually be accompanied by the same speed type visuals
 2) LINKS BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS

-The music video would usually translate the lyrics to help the audience understand the motif.
 3) GENRE CHARACTERISTICS

-When certain music videos follow the conventions of their type of music to match the music video
 4) INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES

-Music videos that are influenced by cultural reference sand symbols to represent ideas to the audience
 5 )NOTIONS OF LOOKING

-When the audience is feeling involved and engaged due to the artist looking directly into the camera breaking the Fourth wall 
 6) VOYEURISM

-Women being sexualized and objectified by the types of camera shots to please a male audience
 7) DEMANDS OF THE RECORD LABEL

-Music videos which are altered to suit what the record label likes as small as what they're wearing to their hair colour/length
 8) PERFORMANCE-BASED, NARRATIVE BASED AND CONCEPT BASED MUSIC VIDEO

-Performance videos are when the video is made of a variety of shots of them doing some sort of activity to highlight their talent from playing instruments, singing, dancing acting, etc.

- Narrative videos are when there is a clear constant storyline throughout the video

-Concept videos are the video focusing on a specific topic/idea, the lyrics could be about the topic or even a line of the topic

SCROLL UP for 'types of music videos' examples of the Goodwin's theory and where it can be applied

MOCK VIDEO

Reflection Log

What I thought went well was the simple fact of how much footage we managed to get in the short space of time to film including opening shots, establishing shots, performative shots and BTS footages.

I think it would have been even better if we shortened the opening shots (0:00-0:14) because it's 14 seconds of two shots back to back in slow motion, which doesn't seem long when we did but eventually it gets a bit boring and repetitive. The same problem with the next two shots (0:15-0:25). Another aspect of the music video which would have made it better would have been to practise the different routines a lot more, we only had an hour to finish so it would have had longer the dances would have looked a lot more synchronised and sharper movements to make it look cleaner.

Our influence from our choreography was from previous routines that my dance partner and I had previously made prior to this which helped organize the shoot.

MOODBOARD

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Storyboard

Our music video is essentially centred around the rise and fall of the relationship between a couple. It shows them madly in love and smitten in each others company, then gradually falling out of love with the general things that happen during a breakup. For instance: reminiscing, bitterness, feelings of loss, despair and sadness.

The first shot of our music video begins with establishing shots of buildings and flats. The camera will slowly pan across them. We chose to pan the camera slowly to give a feeling of a flashback or memory, dream and gentle. We will also edit the filter of the shot to give it a semi-aged look.  Then cut to next shot will be of our actor Zaid, walking into his bedroom and sitting on a chair. His has a notebook and pen in hand, he reluctantly opens the book and takes the lid off to write. The way in which we will shoot this in long shot and a medium shot. So we have an equal amount of shots of his face (his facial expressions)  and his writing. We will edit the contrast of the video in a way in which it a lot darker to give it a sorrowful tone. The next shot is of Zaid looking out of the window, looking at an apparition of Cadene on the window. This will be at a medium shot to get the window and Zaid’s lower body, to see his nervous hands and tenses due to writing the letter and constantly seeing Cadene (his ex-girlfriend) everywhere he goes. Then next, we capture Zaid finally beginning to write. We captured this in a mid shot so we could get Zaid’s head, upper body and him writing in it. All of the shots taken of Zaid with the notepad will have the contrast/brightness intentionally a little bit darker. Cut to the next shot, will be a POV shot of Cadene and Zaid in bed together talking. From Zaid’s perspective, therefore of Candene. We chose to do this to display the cosiness and comfortableness they felt with each other when they use to be together. Then it is filmed in Cadene’s POV of Zaid saying “I love you.” A vital shot that we really want to get, then Cadene covers the camera with her hands as if she is covering her face. This is the transition to our next scene. Which is Zaid back to the window, a medium shot. Except with no apparition of Cadene in the window. We did this to capture emotions of loss. The video ends with a sombre tone. Of Zaid and Cadene walking into the distance, next to each other but in different locations.

SYNOPSIS

Cast and crew list, shooting scheduling

our Pitch

Feedback from pitch-

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1st Draft-

-2nd Draft Edit

Final Edit- 

INSPIRATION

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EVALUATION

The chosen theme of our music video was mostly a Ballad type of R&B influence.  

Conventionally R&B songs are usually in greyscale or a sepia tone, they do this as it's very soft and adds to the tone of the song because colours represent emotions. "White balance on these videos is usually high due to the grey in the video goes more towards the black side it can represent a sense of power instead of showing softness. If the video is not shot in greyscale, the video is always softened and a lot of natural lighting is used to show a sense of reality" this reinforces our choice of colour a deep turquoise green and different shade a magenta pink. The colour turquoise is associated with many different meanings and different atmosphere's; calming, wisdom/wise, a sadness yet also love. On the other hand, magenta represents love at its highest level, compassion and kindness. The blue and pink contrast greatly due they are basically opposite colours, complement each other and are the stereotypical boy and girl gender colours.

To be honest we stuck with our initial idea the whole way through our whole process but mainly just improved on what we had already but this is the bullet points we wrote down when we were trying to draw out our idea. We knew we wanted flashbacks will be in black and white noir to represent its old, The pace of the video will not to at a normal or fast frame rate, but a slightly slower frame rate ( 48 or 60 FPS), Differing emotional states of the video will have different filters , slight performative influence in the video with the dancers, A story is being told, We wanted to take influence from Bryson’s past videos, Reminiscing on the past relationship/love, The video to essentially visualise display of the feelings of lost love. Due to the short amount, we had to finish this in by the end of the first week we made a structure for what we wanted to film.

Overall I think my music video turned out pretty good considering the fact that we had short notice to do it and we stuck to the storyboard for pretty much every shot. 

1- Establishing shots of buildings, 2- Him walk into his room, 3- Sits down taps his pen twice, 4- Looks out the window edit of the girl on the other side of the frame e.g, 5- Writing a letter to his ex, 6- Flashback- to the bed P.O.V shot, 7- Back to the window, 8- Long shot of him sitting in a chair whilst camera zooms in (chorus),9- A shot him looking at his watch and him looking exhausted, 10- Another one shot of him rapping to a pic cadene, 11- ‘Hard to focus too’ to ‘hoping you can help find that’ on these lines, we will be showing the long sequence of Zaid and Cadene having fun when they were dating, for it to rewind when he says hoping we can rewind back, 12- Back to P.O.V shot ‘i love you’ and covers camera as if she covers her face for a transition into a small dance sequence, 13- For the rest of the song to be cut between the window shot, the dancers and shots of cadence, 14- Shots of cadence and 'Bryson' but edited next to each other.

On the day where we were filming we had a couple of problems. The first issue we had was when we initially booked the studio we thought we had it for the whole day but when we got there apparently we had to wait till 2:50 which very irritating because our one of our dancers needed to leave at 3:00, so I took it upon myself to find somewhere else to record and I found out that the drama studio was available and managed to get the production team to move in there as soon as they could. By the time they set up we only had 10 minutes to film with our dancer before she had to leave and from that we got two takes of her freestyle and one take of the group dance.

 

When we edited our piece on a software called premier pro windows, but the computer we was using is in the “projects” office, which left us with only certain time to edit as other people use it too. We managed to get the 1st edit done in two days, our feedback was to edit more colour on the flashback footy to show consistency throughout the music video, match the conventions of my chosen genre and a stereotypical music video in the first place. We also got advised that we should get rid of certain establishing shots as they didn’t fit the narrative of the music video so we made changes to that and got rid of them. The last bit of feedback was when our teacher spoke out on the point of that there should be more shots of him lip syncing and we added more footage.

Genie couldn't edit therefore that was another problem as I our college has a show on right now called limelight and I in the show so I was constantly run between on stage and when I was off to help genie edit.

My inspiration for this shot was from a music video called 'Avenue' by a new upcoming R&B artist that goes by the name of H.E.R. This shot is an establishing shot which is usually the first shot of a new scene, to show the audience where the action is taking place or set the tone - this wide shot introduces the music video's colour scheme. I captured this shot on my way home from the shot as I realised we did not get it earlier, which worked perfectly to make our shot look similar to the one we took inspiration from. As the shot to the left was taken at night so was ours and it was around a variety of different colours from the lights of the streetlights and car lights to give off a dream-like atmosphere.

 

This shot was one I definitely wanted to get as it is a beautiful smooth b roll transition which breaks up the emotional scenes. It is a close-up emphasising the bottom half of their face including their nose and mouth without showing her eyes too much which gives off a mysterious vibe as our eyes reveal our thoughts and feelings since we cannot see them we don't know what the female is thinking throughout the whole video. Whereas my shot mainly focuses on my model's smile which is accompanied well with the lipgloss she wore that day.  

This shot is a classic filming technique used by directors and filmmaker to show that the character or subject is reflecting upon themselves especially for the R&B genre. We decided to have him in the middle third of the shot to catch the audiences attention and the bright light that is coming from the window creating a silhouette of 'Bryson'. The greyscale reflects the state of mind at this point in the narrative.

MY SHOTS

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These contrasting shots are used to juxtapose the two prominent emotions throughout the video. The deep turquoise blue used in the solo dance shot is also used in the 'Bryson' shot showing him reflecting his thoughts by himself and the dancer is by herself aswell which means he also feels isolated and lonely. In contrast to the group of dancers who are in that magenta pink so it connotes the opposite of the previous dance shot which it gives off the impression of togetherness, love warmth and comfort. The actual chorography is juxtaposing each other because the group piece is more harsh and in unison but the solo is more fluid and improvised, this represents Bryson being emotional and unstable vs Cadene being calm yet still giving love out.

To create a even more fluid shot was to have the shutter speed high and have 50 frames per second to highlight the dancer’s solo.

The long shot of the dancers dancing was very noisy, grainy and slightly out of focus, but due to certain circumstances I explained earlier we didn’t get a lot of footage of the dance. Me and my partner was facing a difficult problem as we really wanted to use this footage so we overcame this issue with a solution which was to having two pieces of the same dance sequence and do a almost morph effect on one of the copies of the footage, then we would place the footage on top  of each other but have the morph version 1 second later to create a ghost like illusion. This went with our narrative as the effect can connote the confusion of “Bryson’s” head and also reinforces the memory scenes as it’s as if the girl “Bryson” misses is there in his heart but not with him physically.

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This shot was most liked by everyone who watched the music video. The concept I had when editing this was that represents the fact that they were once together at once and her disappearing literally relates to the narrative as they have broken up and aren't together anymore.

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This is the questionnaire that I had to make and have my other peers and mentors to fill out. I had them fill it out because audience feedback is a very important section as it allows me to understand how my production is being perceived,  how different people interpret it and if interests my target audience. Once this is done I will then be able to improve on anything for example; If the majority do not understand the narrative of the video, I would have opportunity to then go and make the necessary improvements so it's clear.

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From this google form I sent out, I got a variety of different ages responses. The age range that completed my questionnaire was from 17 to 30 years+ (Mixture of Millennials and Generation Z) an was 60% male roughly and for 40% female That fact that more males watched my actually subverts my initial target audience which is emotional females who are searching for relatable situations through the lyrics and visuals. On the other hand, it reinforces one of Goodwins's 8 theories he applied to music videos. My questionnaire was filled out by a group had answered question 3 & 4 and the majority watch music videos weekly and they also watch them the most online for example YouTube or Vimeo.

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Our music video concept was built upon Goodwin's theory what was made of 8 concepts on music videos. The first one that we applied to our idea was to have a Narrative video, that is when there is a clear constant storyline throughout the video and this links well with one of Goodwin's other concept theory which is Links between lyrics and visuals and these type of music videos would usually translate the lyrics to help the audience understand the motif. For the last concept we had elements of a Performance video, they are when the video is made of a variety of shots of them doing some sort of activity to highlight their talent. In our video, the narrative was a love story but without a happy ending and the male in the video is reminiscing on all the good times they had together and how he misses her that then links with Lyrics and visuals when there are loads of flashback scenes of them together and even an edit of her face appearing next to his. Lastly, the performance elements are the shots of the dancers to lift up the mood with some action but at the same time, the dance moves chosen try to convey the emotion that they are feeling. Most people got the concept of the video and roughly stated that they understood it was about someone reflecting on the past relationship,  realising he regrets ending it and majority of the audience who watched the video had thought that it was a narrative-based music video.

More Reflection logs

What is a reflective log?

It is log or diary (in my case a video diary) that has consistent updates by a student, sharing and describing their experience of what has happened prior to, after or during the video

This is one of the first full-on conversations I had with Genie, in this clip we were discussing what I initially had visualised for the music video and genie shared her thoughts about it, although because we had such similar visions we barely clashed when it came down to ideas 

This is a section in the video where Genie and I were ending the conversation with our male model Zaid and also asking if he knew anyone who could play the role for the female model, which later I then found the model.

This is the full video of me and Genie's conversation which includes, contacting zaid, asking him to be involved, telling him the rough details then me explaining my idea to Genie and her expressing how she feels about it.

The first video is the day where I had initially told my dance partner about the music video and I asked her if she could dance in it for me, she said yes and within an hour later we were already trying to choreograph the routine, the following day a dance student saw what we were doing and wanted to participate, which worked well as she is an amazing dancer, has a different style of dancing compared to us and therefore could do a solo later on in the song we had planned.

This video is more an audio clip rather than a video as our peer, Sabrina, in the year above who has now finished her media course, is giving us some advice on our first draft for the music video and constructive criticism on what we can do to improve.

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