ALTERNATIVE ROCKCONVENTIONS

Mise en SceneThere is often a shot of a bathroom location or a shot looking into the mirror.

The setting in several of the music videos is in an urban city area often at night utilising the lighting of the street lights and cars.

For setting in the daytime and in more rural areas the location is thought about a lot especially the colours.

The costumes of the band or artist in music videos tend to be a lot more casual and the singers especially the female singers tend to have several costume changes throughout the video. The costumes of the band tend to be quite dark.

A lot of the costumes for the characters in the narrative tend to be quite casual and tend to be mostly black and white there are some exceptions though.

Camera A tilt down camera movement often shows the establishing shot in the video

A lot of mid shots of the dinger especially are often seen in the music videos occasionally the shot is also a tracking shot

following the artist.

Group shots are often found in music videos to show the band or to show important people in the narrative the shots tend to be either mid or long shots and are usually angled straight on.

There is a lot of close-ups of the singers face as they are singing and there is usually a high frequency of these shots throughout the video

There are a lot of two shots in the narrative sides of the music videos the two-shots can range from long shots to over the shoulder shots and often depict a child and there parent.

Camera

There tends to be extreme close-ups focusing on the instruments usually the guitars the close-ups appear throughout the video and at different angles.

There are usually a lot of extreme close-ups which tend to only be found in the narrative where the character is doing something

important to the story.

Extreme close-ups of hands and feet seem to occur quite often in this genre especially in the narrative side of the music vidoes.

EditingHaving text upon the screen is quite unusual in music videos but this can show that the music video is going to be story like.

There is often fancy editing where the artist is faded into an area of the shot such as this mirror shot

Some music videos use lighting to blur out some shots or blur them out during editing to create an effect.

The use of pen to scratch out a persons face in shots is an obvious use of effects in editing and is used in this case to show emotion of the narrative.

There is a use of jump cuts in some of the music videos to cut the length of some of the narrative shots down or to cut to the music.

Usually towards the end of the video an effect such as blur or fade will occur to show it’s the end.

Lighting effects done whilst editing often shows a change in scene of the narrative of illustrate a change in tempo of the song.

All the cuts in the music video cut in time with the music so as the song speeds up the cutting will match it.