Monday, 1 December 2014

Music Video Techniques

A good Stop Motion - This is a good stop motion music video because all the way throughout the music video it shows stop motion, you can tell this is stop motion because they look like allot of pictures have been put together as close as possible but not close to make it look smooth because with every shot you can see the difference between each shot, this is good because it looks like it took allot of time to to get the shots the way they wanted them to and moving the clothes and objects around the room perfectly.
 

A bad Stop Motion - is Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite as it is basically clay moving and talking to the song which might have been amazing back than but now it is out of date and that isn't the sort of the stop motion that would appeal to people because if you go on YouTube it isn't that amazing because children can do it with Lego and the music video is probably low budget as they are playing with clay and taking a picture just by slightly moving it and putting it all together, you can tell by the small pauses every time it moves.

A good Special Effects - OK Go - The Writing's On the Wall this is a good video because it doesn't have any cuts which you usually see in a music video but in this one its all in one shot but looks like it took forever as it creates an illusion which is a sort of special effect for visual as all the way through it keeps you interested because the scene keeps changing even tho its all one shot also the camera was not thrown about everywhere it was smooth at making transitions to other locations, they were able to continue to do this because once one person finished their role they took control of the camera so the other person can get into place for their shot.

A bad Special Effects -  D double E - Street-fighter riddim this video has very bad special effects even though it is based around a game and supposed to be like street fighter themed, it just looks awful if you look to the up to date songs, at 1:40 watching that part of 10 seconds looks like the song isn't even professional; something made with limited budget it hasn't got any special effects that make you go 'wow' that was awesome, its just all low budget effects that look bad which doesn't show a good representation on the artist because if this is the first song you hear from him and you watch the video you'll think all his over videos are bad so from this video he could lose a majority of the audience he could of got if the video was more professional and look good.

A good green screen - This is a good green screen music video as during the the music video she moves behind the screen and you can still see her legs and you can see the pre-recording on the screen but her legs and the pre-recording matches, at 1:45 you can see she walks behind the screen and her legs match the movement, it creates the effect that you can actually see her behind the screen but by using this technique it allows her to add graphics and effects onto the screen and change clothes.


A bad green screen - This is Michael Jackson's song 'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough', this is a bad green screen because there is allot going on but none of it is relevant to make the video look good also it looks bad because it has low quality, even tho people may of thought this was great at the time, it is horrible to even look at and has to much going on, if you compare it to the music videos now that contain green screen they flow with the song and fit very well but this is quite a old song and it doesn't do that, the backgrounds chosen for the green screen are too much, it would fit more if the chosen background was a location or place more realistic because it wouldn't look weird, because its always normal having something dance in front of ice cubes that look like dominoes.

Good Lip Syncing - This is good lip syncing because every time he speaks or sings it is matched with the song so it looks like he is actually singing the song from where he is but its not it was all pre-recorded in a studio, but he lip synced it very well to make it look like he was singing it as his mouth was matching the song exactly all the way through even tho with all the different shots it went into he matched the lip syncing to the song and it makes you think was he really lip syncing it cause it was that good.

Bad Lip Syncing - This is a bad lip-syncing music video because you can hear the song but it doesn't match their mouths, as they are a band its more difficult to pull of lip syncing as they will all do it at different times and this just makes it obvious that its lip syncing but when its obvious than you know its bad, when they all stand together and try to sing the same thing all there mouths move at different times but the you don't hear the extra voices or the song going out of tune so this is why you know its bad lip syncing.


Good - This is good because the song matches the beat throughout the video, either it be when you hear the beat the scene cuts to another scene or either the beat happens the background matches the song, this is good because it makes the song and the visual experience much for entertaining because you can match the to together and it makes it much more enjoyable to watch, when videos don't do this you seem to lose interest as it's not matching and you don't really get the feel of the song but because this music video does it you can get the feel of the beat and the song.
Bad - This is bad at cutting to the beat because it simply just doesn't do it, its a horrible music video with a horrible song but it just doesn't cut to the beat, the shots are too long, it hardly has any instruments playing just a piano and drum line and because the music video isn't matching you lose the interest in it, if it cut to the beat it may have a chance of actually being a good video but for the music it is just bad even though it has a large amount of viewers the song is bad and does not look or sound professional.

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