Planning: Analysing similar videos

Content/Structure

Jhene Aiko- The pressure

Structure:
This music video has the same structure that my group decided to have. Throughout the video it shows different narratives as well as the stars image. This is done through a pan shot and fade to blacks whereas we are going to use straight cuts.
As the song goes on we see the problems and situations the characters go through in each narrative . By the end of the video the narratives all end in a negative way, this is how we want our video to play out.

Narrative:
In this music video there are similar themes and narratives such as relationship problems and feeling alone. In the end all the characters are left alone which is similar to us however our characters take their own lives.

Performance:
The star is sitting in a dark room with a spot light over her making her stand out. This is similar to how we want our star to perform as we want her sitting on the floor in the dark surrounded by nothing.

Artist

Rihanna-Stay

body language/facial expressions
Her emotions are shown by a lot of close up shots on her eyes as she cries and lips when she's lip syncing. You can see from her facial expressions she looks emotionally drained and zooned out, this is the type of feeling we want our artist to feel when acting in the video.

performance
 As she lip syncs she does actions such as hugging herself in a ball, wiping her tears, playing with her hair or looking away from the camera. These are the performance qualities that my group want our main star to have because it shows deep emotion and the audience can connect.

make up/costume
The make-up is very nude/neutral in this video which shows how stripped back she is. She is more likely to connect with the audience because she seems more honest and real. Rihanna in this video is not wearing clothes however its not for male gaze purposes as it makes her look infact vulnerable and innocent.

Visual style of video

Five finger death punch-coming down

The narrative of this music video is about two teenagers going through bullying which eventually leads them down a route of suicide. it shows us all the problems they face and that they can be saved if one person cared.

Editing
The editing of this video is fasted pace with a lot of jump cuts to represent the hectic narrative. Our group thought that the use of jump cuts would also be used in our music video. This music video helped us see what would work for us and what might not.

Characters
The characters in this video really acted out the narrative as if it was their life's. One thing I realised
when watching this video is that I connected more with the female character than the male because of her innocents. We have decided to make all our characters female so that the story will have a better impact.


Lighting and Colour
The lighting was mostly natural lighting however there were scenes where there was low-key
lighting. We have chosen to go with the low-key lighting because we want to create a sad feel for the audience. Colours such as black and red where used to represent dark and deep moments, black will also be used in our music video for clothing.

There's a lot of inspiration that we gathered from this music video that we know will help us because it involves the same themes and narratives.

Conclusion
whilst researching other music videos I found that me and my groups ideas became clear and by the end of this research we now know exactly what we want to achieve. This research helped us all come to a final agreement on certain things such as costume and location.