Music Videos

By Fern Disney

Performance videos

• Lots of music videos have performances of the artists as part of the video- them on stage performances (concerts/ Gigs)

College Teachers example

• One Directions “History”.

• This music video includes the band singing directly to the camera, but also shows the bands progression- showing them singing on the Xfactor and being put together as a group, then showing them doing small shows, progressing to there Wembley concerts and the massive crowds. These are real life situation, warming up and fooling around.

My example

• 5 Seconds Of Summer- You like so perfect • This can be shown as a production music

video as it shows them singing/ lip syncing to the music in a alley type setting.

• It can also be used as a hybrid music video because it shows both production and narrative.

Spectacle

• For men being the led character in the music video, the male is seen to be addressing the viewer directly- seeing directly to you as an audience.

• However it has been argued that when a female it the led in a music video it is much more to do with Laura Muvleys “Male gaze”, they are suggested to be posed in “Sexual poses” or wearing minimum clothing.

Men Spectacle…

• College teachers example… Sam smiths “stay with me”. Sam smith is

show to be trying to connect with his audience

• My example… Troye Sivan“Happy Little Pill”. This screen]Shot shows him singing to The camera/ audience.

Women’s spectacle • College teachers example… Miley Cyrus “wrecking ball”

showing a sexual nature as she sings at the camera whilst swinging naked a points on a wreaking ball.

• My example… Britney Spears“Toxic”, she appears singing To the camera yet movingIn a sexual way- supportingThe male gaze part in the Women’s spectacle music Videos.

Narrative

• This is the type of music video which tells a story which most of the time runs of the lyrics of the song- for example, a sad song can result in the narrative of a break up in a relationship. Most music videos have a beginning, middle and end- acting as a mini film with music in the background.

College teachers example

• Adele’s “Hello”. This shows the story of a lost love who she wants to try and reunite with as she is missing them- trying to get back in contact. It shows the story of a happy couple but then going through a hard time arguing and then the ending is them seeing each other again.

My example• Troye Sivan’s “Blue Neighborhood Trilogy”, showing three

different songs but the story is the same continuing one. The story starts with two boys are a very close friends, we watch them grow up together and become closer and closer. We then see they become boyfriends, which one of the fathers didn't like and tried so hard to split them up. The emotional aspect of this is very high as we feel connected to these boys. The boys then stop speaking and one of the boys tries so hard to fake his life to please his father- by dating a girl. We then see how this affects the other

Ideas…• With this research of three different examples of music videos,

I personally think a “hybrid” music video would be the best one to make because I think it will have the most entertainment aspect as the audience would be able to a performance of a band but at the same time getting that narrative of a story line. Even though my Narrative example was Troye Sivan’s Blue Neighbor hood trilogy, I do not think I would have enough time to create a three part narrative of music videos however I do think that is a great idea and concept. If we had more time maybe we may be able to do that idea, however in the mean time, I think myself and Megan shall just do one video of both narrative and production.