Examples of the visuals and the song:
Amplifying the meaning through the visuals is useful, an example (Integral to the lyrics and meaningful):
Illustrating the meaning, literally showing the meaning of the song and making the meaning clear, literally taking the lyrics and showing them:
Pop conventions:
- Quite easy and simple to follow
- Usually bright colours, happy
- High key lighting
- Dancing
- Fun and bubbly
- Silly
Example:
Rock conventions:
- Performance
- Quite chaotic
- Dark
- Dangerous looking
Use of intertextual references, eg: thank you next (Ariana grande)
- Her own life and relationship (seen in the burn book)
- Bring it on
- Legally blonde
- Mean girls
With some intertextual references, they could be referencing them because of the key target audiences of some artists’ music
Notions of looking and voyeurism:
- Women often shown in sexualised ways
- Therefore audience forced to look at their bodies
Example:
Reflective of the record label, could reflect their issues:
- Financial status
- Power/connections
- Other signed artists
- Global locations
- Target audience
Example:
Stormzy did not have a record label at the time
Star image is a key focus:
- Lots of close ups and other camera shots that focus on the singer/band’s faces
Example:
3 final big areas:
- Performance based - videos focus on a singer or band performing to the camera, often with instruments
- Narrative based - videos have a storyline
- Concept based - videos focus on some kind of arty, surreal, odd based concept
Try to merge these 3 areas
Performance based, example:
Narrative based, example:
No comments:
Post a Comment