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| Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) is pretty much my favourite film, and a film you absolutely must see straight away. It uses a recurring motif of an extreme close-up of various character's eyes. These shots have many symbolic connotations. For example, it communicates with the audience themes of humanity and identity. However, these shots also work because they look really, really cool. Despite all the film's incredible special effects, many agree that the standout shot is the repetition of the eye motif, which can be easily emulated with a tripod and a little patience! |
You have complete and total freedom in the music video project, which is daunting and a little scary. You can do absolutely anything you want, and you will doubtless have taken inspiration from other, professional music videos.
But, some techniques that you've seen will be frankly very hard to emulate. This shouldn't stop you from making a colourful and psychedelic video like ASAP Rocky's L.S.D, but you must accept how long it's going to take tweaking colours and saturation and key framing...
But you don't NEED to do something crazy to get an A* for the music video project.
Here are some examples of straightforward shots that (almost) ALWAYS look good in (almost) ANY music video!
- Extreme close up of lips lip syncing
- Extreme close up of an eye
- Sunlight playing through leaves
- Out of focus lights, snapping back in to focus
- Mid Shot of performer in eccentric makeup
- Performer performing in front of projector
- Performer in front of graffitied wall on a bright, sunny day
- Performer in pitch black room with single LED light on/under/above face
- A bee crawling in to a flower
- Flowers in general
- A establishing shot of a block of flats
- Bright, neon makeup
- Black, gothy makeup
- Weird, random mise en scene
Shots that generally DON'T work well...
- Following the performer around a city
- Mid shot followed by mid shot followed by mid shot
- Wobbly shot of people walking down the street
- Gig footage
- Cluttered settings (eg a normal bedroom or classroom)