1. Actor choice and her relevance to the music video
2. Locations and their similarity with other music videos of the same genre
3. Props used, if any
4. Costumes
5. As many Goodwin theories as possible
6. Choice of lighting and mise-en-scene
Screengrabs:
1. Props: I used only a few props for my music video (shown in pictures 1 and 4). These consisted of a piano, some headphones and a microphone stand. These were only simple props and easily accessible, but add a lot to the video, enhancing its 'believability'. The playing of the piano also comes under one of Andrew Goodwin's theories, 'There is a relationship between the music and the visuals'. The fact that we see the actor playing the piano at the same time that we hear it playing satisfies this theory. This brings focus on the music and should, in theory, let the listener become more involved with the music, rather than sitting watching a few clips put together to some background music. It creates more of a link between what has been videoed and the music that is being listened to.
2. Screen grab 2 is part location, part costumes. It shows the actor down on the beachside, so where she might like to hang out in her spare time, equating to the possible kind of lifestyle she likes to lead. And the sunglasses and coat with scarf are a typical costume for this genre, which I discussed in an earlier post.
3. The opening location, in fact this is my own living room where I have a piano. I found that when we had the main light on it produced a nice sort of lens flare around the actors head, which gave a really nice effect in my opinion (especially when coupled with the shallow depth of field I used).
4. This is another location I used. It is the recording studio at Beaulieu Convent School. They kindly let me go down there one lunchtime to let me do some filming for my music video. Because it is an actual recording studio they already had a microphone stand and instruments set up in the room, allowing for appropriate mise-en-scene.
5. AS opposed to being a fill shot, as we saw in picture 2, this is part of the chorus where we have a close up whilst the actor is walking forwards. The use of a close up allowed for a shallow depth of field, so anything in the backround is blurred, bringing all of the focus onto the artist, and so keeping to Goodwin's theory of the demands of the record label to have as many close ups of the artist as possible/is apprpriate.
6. This is at another of the locations at which I chose to shoot the music video. It is in the woods, which is typical for any acoustic video, being out, close to nature. It reinforces this 'typical lifestyle' that I am trying to portray throughout the video. The easiest way I can explain it is to say that you generally wouldn't see an acoustic music video at night on backstreets of a city or in a bus station (unless of course there is some kind of intertectual reference to it). You are much more likely to see an acoustic video on the beach, in the woods, in a park, around a campfire etc...
7. This picture shows another of the costumes that I chose to use. We can see welly boots (which turn up a surprising amount!), an overcoat with a scarf (the same scarf as we saw earlier on in the video), and jeans (a fairly typical item of clothing for this genre). This picture is also the introduction of the final location of where I shot my video. It is a long pier, which is a little out of the way so is not normally very busy, allowing for some creative and meaningful to be
8. I chose this shot maily because of the absence of any other person along such a long pier. This should make the video more personal as a lot of people would notice this and realise that even when nobody else is there, the artist will still sing the words to the person they are meant for and again fulfils Goodwin's theory regarding the demands of the Record Company, and a slight bit of intertextual reference.
9. I think this screengrab shows the biggest relationship between my video and Andrew Goodwin's theories. It is a close up of the artist, which record labels want so that people can easily recognise the artist when they see them in a different context. The reasoning for having the camera head on and her looking right into the lens is to create the effect to the audience, that she is singing directly to them (or they know that there is somebody specific being sung to), which is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, another of Goodwin's theories.
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