What we learnt from our Similar Text Analysis

Before planning a script for this music video, we analysed other music videos to give us a more skilled approach to our own project. We looked at different music genres, like Hip Hop, R ’n’ B and Punk and found that they all had their own distinctive characteristics. For example in 50cents video –I get money, includes the common Hip Hop convention of lots of good looking women dancing around, a form of voyeurism; and in Hinder’s lips of an angel, characteristic of “grudge” music included the band presented themselves as no different from minor local bands ( i.e. not with a large audience in a big stage).

Other similarities I found was that in all the videos we looked the, the artist took a main role in the narrative as well as the performance depending on the structure style. This suggests to me, that in our music video the lead singer in the band should take a role in the narrative we decide to produce.

In addition music videos are a way to publicise an artist and their star image is important to represent in music videos. For example In Rihannas Take a bow video, she’s making a statement that she’s not a little girl anymore, which also works well with the title of the album “good girls, gone bad”. This tells me that when we construct our video, we should take into consideration, what kind of image we are trying to give off, in terms of dress, attitude and behaviour of the artists on screen.

Furthermore, music videos tend to have a fast pace and have lots of jump cuts. Also in terms of camerawork, there is a range of shots, including lots of close ups and tracking shots. I think camera movement is important in music videos to make it more interesting and this gives me an idea about what kind of things we need to add in our music video.