During my free time, I decided to act on this feedback by watching as many music videos that incorporate features of the Piano Rock genre as possible. I hoped that this would help to familiarise myself with and highlight any commonalities between the videos so that I could share them with my group at a later date. Also, by taking note of a few choice features from these existing videos, it may make the task of reconstructing elements such as: costume, lighting or camera angles slightly easier in the future.
Videos I watched included:
Birdy- Skinny Love
An element this video uses, and I have come to realise that the majority of Piano Rock genre videos also include this, is that the artist (in this case 14 year old Birdy) is featured actually playing the piano. I think, seeing as we have chosen to pursue the Piano Rock theme, that we must at some point in our own video include our chosen artist playing the piano. I believe this can be achieved in two ways: our artist may be able to already play the piano- in which case perfect! We can shoot that. However, if our artist is unable to play the piano, we can use a series of close-ups and long shots, shots of the face and of just her hand (possible hand double) in order to fake it. Either way, I think it is an essential convention of the Piano Rock genre.
Coldplay- The Scientist
I like the fact that the artists movements all appear to be in time with the beat of the piano despite Coldplay deciding to incorporate a reverse narrative. I doubt we would have a reverse narrative as I feel that may over-complicate things slightly, however watching this video has made me reconsider our artists movement in terms of matching the beat. Also, I hope to include a camera angle similar to the tracking shot used at: 1:56-59 in order to convey the pairing of movement and sound.
This video is one of my favourites that I have analysed; I would love to create an artistic video such as this! I think every song can be interpreted to have a basic linear meaning but they can also have a much more metaphorical meaning and I think it is in the latter interpretations that really creative videos such as this one are achieved. However, my group has decided against the use of some slightly more imaginative locations, costumes and camera angles to instead use more generic locations such as train stations and local cafes. However, I still feel that aspects of this video can still be appropriately incorporated into our own- largely through our use of camera angles. My favourite shot can bee seen at: 0:53-58. I think its composition is great as the slow track & pan shot, when paired with the green screen location and moody lighting, creates a great atmosphere and reinforces the songs lyrics. I think we could recreate woodland locations such as this without using green-screen technology by filming in Frank's woods. Fortunately, our videos do have the option to use green screen technology and if we did, I would love to maybe re-create the effect shown at: 2:10-15. By matching his shirt to the background and using a light wind, I think it creates a very dramatic look, especially with the slow zoom-out camera angle. As our song has very dramatic parts to it- in particular the heavy instrumentals, this is a technique we could easily include. I intend to suggest this to my group.
The next stage in the production process will be to, most importantly, finalise our production schedule and story board to make sure that the group is working as efficiently as possible. This should not be a problem as our originals are already rather detailed. We also need to create a style guide (this task has been assigned to Rebecca) and decide who is to undertake which of the ancillary tasks; this shall be noted as soon as possible in upcoming blogs.
Lily-May Smythe
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