Prior Research Before Planning

Prior Research Before Planning My Video

Before I could start planning for my music video, I had to gauge real concepts from already produced music videos, to see how they were created, imposed, edited and shot. 

To do this, I decided to choose 'Free' by Rudimental and Emile Sande. I chose this video as it is well known for having incredible editing and camera work, with varied angles and also, it is about an extreme athlete who wants to achieve his dreams.

With very similar values to my video, I felt it was a perfect video to study as the similar theme and aims are displayed with both my video and that one.

What did I learn from this?

From this research, I learnt that my camera work needs to show progression. Due to my video being solely narrative, I need to show how my character gets from one part of his life to another. 

In this video, they use Big Close Up shots, over-the-shoulder shots and establishing shots. 

The big close up shots allow the audience to see emotions with the character, whereas the over-the-shoulder can show his aims:

 - As you can see from the image, there is an over-the-shoulder shot of him watching an eagle (linking to the narrative of flying as the athlete is a wing suit flyer). 

- This adds to the semantic field of hope within the video, and displays his dreams accurately and obviously for the reader, meaning I need to develop a similar approaching my video.