History of music videos

The invention of music videos came with the introduction of film and cinema.The music industry quickly jumped on the idea of merging moving image with sound to create a visual narrative that portrays the lyrics within the song. The first music videos were produced in the 20's where by the Jazz musicians would be filmed performing and this would be used as the music video.However as technology evolved music videos became more visually interesting and have now become works of art which all sorts of editing and special effects. Some artists have become known for their performance in music videos such as Michael Jackson, his dancing and performance in his 'Thriller' and 'Billie Jean' music videos greatly influenced his success.

Song Change

After brain storming about a music video song we finally picked "hurt" however after doing the animatics and listening to the song over and over plus trying to choreograph to it we felt as if the song wasn't good enough therefore changed it to "love in the dark".

24/11/16

·      Today I and Tyrell stayed behind to edit, while on final cut pro I found a tool where you can change the colour of the footage and as I said in previous blogs that I want the colour scheme of this project to have red in it due to the connotation of love. The footage of me singing to the camera has a filter over the top making it red; it works really well and connects with the love theme.

Inspiration for a scene

This Britain's Got Talent performance was my idea inspiration for the silhouette scene in our potential music video.

Settings ideas

1st Section - Dancing 

• Drama Black room 
• Fitness room in PE department but with a black screen behind 
• My dance studio at my dance school 
• Park 

2nd Section - Silhouette 

• White screen with lights behind, people standing in front of it 

3rd Section - Shots of me 

• Black drama room
• Park
• In my bedroom 

Music Video Idea

Me, Tyrell and Danny have picked our final music video idea and from now on are planning to film based on this idea. Our idea is split into 3 sections , 1 being me dancing in a studio with camera shots such as panning plus using equitment such as the dolly. 2nd section being a siloute scene explaining the narrative of our music video which is a breakup of a girl and boy, then the 3rd section being shots of my face and body standing singing to the camera.

Animatic story board

Filming of the dancing

·      Today we done filming of me dancing, I wore my leotard, tights and white shirt and we filmed in the drama studio. As Tyrell set up the camera i played around with the lights, getting the correct lights on so I am visible in the camera and to create a good setting and mood for the filming.