Going through the process of my ideas for my music video, I decided
to watch lots of pop and quirky music videos in order to pick up different
ideas and techniques ideas. At this stage I know what song I am looking to do
which is ‘Lips are Moving’ by the artist Meghan Trainor.
Immediately this has given me the idea of lips being a huge
focus of my music video. An idea I had in mind is a close up of just lips
signing along to the song. I will use different people and film them
individually, each with different and eccentric lip art on it so it will make
the video bright and exciting. I also saw Nicki Minaj’s ‘Super Bass’ video and
liked the idea of glow in the dark lips so that is a huge focus idea on the
lips as well. I mainly got the idea of lips from just watching tv over summer
and seeing a 'Ministry of Sound' advert for their summer album. As
I am not a makeup professional or a huge arty person, I will have to be
realistic in what I can do and create with the lips and I don’t just want them
to be basic red or pastel pink colours, I want them to be more imaginative and
exciting for the audience.
Again wanting to make this video as exciting for my audience
I want to incorporate lots of exciting props and things to it. I watched a few
of Meghan Trainor’s music videos as she is the artist I will be using, and saw
she had many different things such as balloons and confetti so it gave me the
idea to use these kind of things in my music video. This music at right of the
start of the song has a strong
beat behind it so I gave me the idea of shooting a speaker while the song is
playing. This further game me the idea of having glitter or liquid in the
speaker and it reacting to the beat of the song so it jumps which I have been
seen done in some experiments so I will need to test this to make sure it will
work.As my target audience is girls I want
to include more girly things, so I like the idea of using petals and dropping
them on top of my model as well.
With my
music video research and analysis I found out that a key part of any music
video is the have a relationship between lyrics and visuals. This therefore
gave me the idea to have lyrics on screen. I watched Katy Perry’s ‘Birthday’ music video, which was all lyrics
and had different ways to show the lyrics on screen. For the lyrics ‘ly-ly-lying, baby’ I had the thought of using magazine letters cut out and shoot them
individually and edit them one after the other so they words each pop up when
the song sings this part of the song. I don’t want my video to be full of lyrics
so I may use this on more lyrics and incorporate fun different ways to do this,
but I will only use this technique in a small proportion of this video.
As this is
a girly video I wanted something quite funny in it as well. I got ideas from
the band Little Mix’s videos to see if I could use ideas
from what they have done in the past. Something I found quite fun is the girls
all dancing in their pyjamas and singing into brushes, hair-straighteners etc. This
could is a fun idea to include in my music video as it is something that many
girls do when they feel people aren’t watching which could incorporate the idea of voyeurism in my music
video. Another idea I found quite cute is being in a dark setting e.g. a garden
at night, with fairy lights behind and holding a sparkler making the setting
really girly and appealing. Although the music I am using is very upbeat, I will
have to see if the darkly lit setting will go with the music as dark settings
are usually used for slower music. Therefore I know I will have to test a lot
of my shots to know if it is right for this music video.
An inspiration
I got from Beyoncé’s ‘countdown’ music video is the idea of split screens. I like
the idea of seeing multiple things at once and this could link well with the
lips idea and seeing lots of lips at once. I also like the idea of seeing the
artist multiple times and that they could be doing different things each time. However
I will need to carefully think about this technique as the software we have at
school and what is available to me isn’t of a higher ability to what huge stars
that have hundreds of thousands of pounds going into their video have. I only have
the software that the school has and anything extra I need or want will need to
be brought with my own money.
Although
there will be lots more included in this video, a final idea I liked was the idea
of a projector screen being put over the top of the artist while singing. This
can allow me to put different graphics on top of the artist and make it more
fun and exciting. I wont put too much-complicated things that will be projected
onto the artist as this could either hide the artist or be too distracting or
harsh on the eyes. Therefore again with this type of technique I will test it
before filming properly so I can get a feel of what will be the outcome in my final
music video.
Immediately this has given me the idea of lips being a huge
focus of my music video. An idea I had in mind is a close up of just lips
signing along to the song. I will use different people and film them
individually, each with different and eccentric lip art on it so it will make
the video bright and exciting. I also saw Nicki Minaj’s ‘Super Bass’ video and
liked the idea of glow in the dark lips so that is a huge focus idea on the
lips as well. I mainly got the idea of lips from just watching tv over summer
and seeing a 'Ministry of Sound' advert for their summer album. As
I am not a makeup professional or a huge arty person, I will have to be
realistic in what I can do and create with the lips and I don’t just want them
to be basic red or pastel pink colours, I want them to be more imaginative and
exciting for the audience. 
Again wanting to make this video as exciting for my audience
I want to incorporate lots of exciting props and things to it. I watched a few
of Meghan Trainor’s music videos as she is the artist I will be using, and saw
she had many different things such as balloons and confetti so it gave me the
idea to use these kind of things in my music video. This music at right of the
start of the song has a strong
beat behind it so I gave me the idea of shooting a speaker while the song is
playing. This further game me the idea of having glitter or liquid in the
speaker and it reacting to the beat of the song so it jumps which I have been
seen done in some experiments so I will need to test this to make sure it will
work. As my target audience is girls I want
to include more girly things, so I like the idea of using petals and dropping
them on top of my model as well.
With my
music video research and analysis I found out that a key part of any music
video is the have a relationship between lyrics and visuals. This therefore
gave me the idea to have lyrics on screen. I watched Katy Perry’s ‘Birthday’ music video, which was all lyrics
and had different ways to show the lyrics on screen. For the lyrics ‘ly-ly-lying, baby’ I had the thought of using magazine letters cut out and shoot them
individually and edit them one after the other so they words each pop up when
the song sings this part of the song. I don’t want my video to be full of lyrics
so I may use this on more lyrics and incorporate fun different ways to do this,
but I will only use this technique in a small proportion of this video.
As this is
a girly video I wanted something quite funny in it as well. I got ideas from
the band Little Mix’s videos to see if I could use ideas
from what they have done in the past. Something I found quite fun is the girls
all dancing in their pyjamas and singing into brushes, hair-straighteners etc. This
could is a fun idea to include in my music video as it is something that many
girls do when they feel people aren’t watching which could incorporate the idea of voyeurism in my music
video. Another idea I found quite cute is being in a dark setting e.g. a garden
at night, with fairy lights behind and holding a sparkler making the setting
really girly and appealing. Although the music I am using is very upbeat, I will
have to see if the darkly lit setting will go with the music as dark settings
are usually used for slower music. Therefore I know I will have to test a lot
of my shots to know if it is right for this music video.
An inspiration
I got from Beyoncé’s ‘countdown’ music video is the idea of split screens. I like
the idea of seeing multiple things at once and this could link well with the
lips idea and seeing lots of lips at once. I also like the idea of seeing the
artist multiple times and that they could be doing different things each time. However
I will need to carefully think about this technique as the software we have at
school and what is available to me isn’t of a higher ability to what huge stars
that have hundreds of thousands of pounds going into their video have. I only have
the software that the school has and anything extra I need or want will need to
be brought with my own money.
Although
there will be lots more included in this video, a final idea I liked was the idea
of a projector screen being put over the top of the artist while singing. This
can allow me to put different graphics on top of the artist and make it more
fun and exciting. I wont put too much-complicated things that will be projected
onto the artist as this could either hide the artist or be too distracting or
harsh on the eyes. Therefore again with this type of technique I will test it
before filming properly so I can get a feel of what will be the outcome in my final
music video.