Music Video ResearchAnalysis of Student Videos

What makes a good Music Video

There are many things that you need to think about in order to create the

perfect music video

The location

The fashion

The timing

Relations to the song

And also.. Does it make sense?!

Once you have all of these correct in your video, then it should be just as

good as the song itself.

Location, Fashion and Timing

Just to confer, I will now explain what I mean when I say that the location and fashion are important factors for a music video.

The location is an important factor to think about, does it link to the song? Does it look like a realistic location? Is it a location where you can film for your video whenever you want? If the answer to all of these is yes, then that is the location for you.

The fashion of the people in the video needs to be appropriate, and fairly casual, however, depending on the song some extreme suits/party wear would be acceptable in a video

The timings of the video have to be the same as the song (actions in the video match the words), otherwise it’ll be out of time and the video won’t have a full effect on the song.

Good

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This is Issac’s music video, and I was really impressed with it. The song is called “How To Destroy Angles” by Fur Lined.

I like how they have used both of best world, some of the video in black and white, being mysterious maybe, and the other half being in colour.

The locations that are used are realistic and are easy to get to for the filming.

They have thought about the fashion quite well, as they have filmed the video with the girl in a casual dress.

I also love the range of camera shots and angles that they have used, going from a low angle shot on the fast paced part of the song, to a high angle shot on the slower part of the song.

However, sometimes the girl in the music video was singing out of time with the song, apart from this, it’s a very well made video.

Bad

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This video was made by a guy called Joe Warren. I wasn’t impressed by this video. The song is called “Viva la Vida” and is sung by Coldplay.

The video was not in tune with the song, and the signing was about a second off what it was in the song.

The use of camera angles aren’t very big, as they only use a few, and there hasn’t been much editing as far as the video is concerned, though there are a lot of cuts which are parts of editing.

The locations picked weren’t great and had no relevance to the video/song, however, they are only students and they are doing a big song so it might have been quite difficult to find somewhere they would have liked to.

Analysing Music Video’s

There are many ways in which you can analyse music video’s;

Location

Clothing/Dress wear

Does it match the genre? Do the people in the video look like a rapper for example?

Camera Angles

Are they in time? Do they express the emotions and feelings of the people in the video like the song does?

Timing

Lip-sinking, is the singing in time with the video? Camera angles, are they all in time?

Brightness

Relation to the song

Does the video and the actions in it link any what to the actual song?

To make a good music video, you need to make sure that it ticks all of these boxes