Intro to music video and research

       Today, we start the process of composing a brand new project and a new type of project. Ms. Cats explained to us that we will be working to make a music video of our final project. Beside the obvious reasons why the project is different, we also have a far less amount of time and this time we don't have to worry about the process of film. The regulations were simple. We must pick a song as a group that of course is appropriate and film the video off campus. Our new group includes Elijah Sherman, and Peter Stroe. We began by first figuring out what song would be best.
         As a group, we decided to go with the song "Hey There Delilah" by The Plain White T's. We are all very familiar with the song so that will give us a good start. We also have multiple ideas already thought of that include easy accessible actors and setting. The Music Video that's already made with the song shows a singer singing to his love far away. The video includes multiple transitions showing where the girl is and the singer singing from home. The pictures also show relevance to the lyrics in the song like a lyric about New York. The picture switches then to New York lights. We don't plan to follow this exactly but we like the idea of the girl being somewhere far way and the singer even further.
        We identified the song as being a part of the genre "Pop-Rock". We've looked through different pop-rock music videos and gathered information on some common conventions. We've noticed that a lot of the pop-rock songs include singers singing to different people. With this said, some angles we see are close-ups, tracking shots, establishing shots, eye level, and dutch. These are only the common ones but the music videos do include other shots. The common movement is so common we didn't see any other forms. We saw a pan as well as flash pan, zoom, and tracking. The sound was pretty straight forward because the song was the music implemented into the video. For editing we saw multiple forms. Jump Cuts, split screens, cross cutting, cutaway, dissolve, and action matches were all common. We also looked towards identifying the CLAMPS of the music video.
1.) Costumes were whatever the singer usually wears so jackets, pants, or sometimes vibrant colors.
2.)The lighting for some videos was very colorful with artificial light or for other very dark.
3.)For actors, the video really depended on them. If singing to someone, there was an actor to represent that someone. Or for other videos, backup dancers were used and people in the background enjoying the song.
4.)The music of course was the actual song implemented into the video.
5.)Dependent on the setting of the video, props changed from guitars, stools, or if at the beach they used things like beach balls, and hoses. All extremely dependent on the setting.
6.)The rhythm of the song commonly decided the setting. The setting changed based on the speed or meaning of the song. Some setting included, New York scene, Beach, and a stage.