1. Why is are variety of editing styles essential within a music video?
A variety of editing is essential as it helps emphasis and reinforce the lyrics and scenario from within a music video. Having a variation causes the audience to be constantly entertained. Editing is also very important within a music video as the cuts and change of shots within a thriller create a sense of uneasiness and uncertainty which is important within a thriller and trying to show the emotions of the central character or victim.
2. What styles of editing are you planning to use within the music video?
Flash Backs
1) Is it conventional to your music genre?
Flash backs are conventional to the soul genre as songs within the genre often portray negative emotions of hurting and despair usually linked to love and so the use of flashbacks are often utilised in order to present to the audience either the reason the couple have broken up or to show them at happier times in either a bid to contrast from the song or explain the situation so that the audience feel sympathy and a greater insight into the song and the artists lifestyle. This involvement can then help the audience gain a better grasp of the artist helping them create a relationship and they understand periods of their life just as with a friend making the fans feel the same and relatable to the artist making them appeal even more to audience members.
2) How does the editing style help to represent your artist?
This editing style presents the artist as nostalgic and as a reflective person. It suggests that they do not necessarily live in the now and towards the future saying thats its ok to relive and relish in past memories to make you understand and appreciate the now.
Slow Pace Editing
1) Is it conventional to your music genre?
Yes, slow paced editing is very conventional to the soul music genre as they allow us to reiterate how the artist is feeling as slow shots in the video create a mellow yet monotonous feel within the video showing how life has stood still and is not carrying on at its usual face pace self as every moment alone is agonising and therefore drawn out. The slow paces used will appeal to our target audience as it allows us to make them feel chilled out and mellow. This will appeal to our audience as the purpose of a soul music is to relate to the audience through emotions and the lyrics so this slow paced approach will help them digest the lyrics easier helping them gain a better understanding of the song and artist allowing them to create a closer link and deep personal reference to the song.
2) How does the editing style help to represent your artist?
The editing style timing of shots is used without this scene to highlight the different feelings experienced by the artist. The slow pace
5. How will planning your editing styles help in the preparation of creating your thriller film?
Planning the different editing styles we were going to use is very useful as now, when filming, we have an idea of how long to carry on the scene so that the fluidity between scences can be achieved. As well as this deciding which editing styles to use before hand allows us to speed up the editing process as now we can make quick decisions when editing each scene rather then having to decide afterwards. To add to this planning this also made sure we included a variety of editing styles and techniques so when it came to the final cut of our music video it can appropriately demonstrated our skills learned.
A variety of editing is essential as it helps emphasis and reinforce the lyrics and scenario from within a music video. Having a variation causes the audience to be constantly entertained. Editing is also very important within a music video as the cuts and change of shots within a thriller create a sense of uneasiness and uncertainty which is important within a thriller and trying to show the emotions of the central character or victim.
2. What styles of editing are you planning to use within the music video?
Flash Backs
1) Is it conventional to your music genre?
Flash backs are conventional to the soul genre as songs within the genre often portray negative emotions of hurting and despair usually linked to love and so the use of flashbacks are often utilised in order to present to the audience either the reason the couple have broken up or to show them at happier times in either a bid to contrast from the song or explain the situation so that the audience feel sympathy and a greater insight into the song and the artists lifestyle. This involvement can then help the audience gain a better grasp of the artist helping them create a relationship and they understand periods of their life just as with a friend making the fans feel the same and relatable to the artist making them appeal even more to audience members.
2) How does the editing style help to represent your artist?
This editing style presents the artist as nostalgic and as a reflective person. It suggests that they do not necessarily live in the now and towards the future saying thats its ok to relive and relish in past memories to make you understand and appreciate the now.
Slow Pace Editing
1) Is it conventional to your music genre?
Yes, slow paced editing is very conventional to the soul music genre as they allow us to reiterate how the artist is feeling as slow shots in the video create a mellow yet monotonous feel within the video showing how life has stood still and is not carrying on at its usual face pace self as every moment alone is agonising and therefore drawn out. The slow paces used will appeal to our target audience as it allows us to make them feel chilled out and mellow. This will appeal to our audience as the purpose of a soul music is to relate to the audience through emotions and the lyrics so this slow paced approach will help them digest the lyrics easier helping them gain a better understanding of the song and artist allowing them to create a closer link and deep personal reference to the song.
2) How does the editing style help to represent your artist?
The editing style timing of shots is used without this scene to highlight the different feelings experienced by the artist. The slow pace
5. How will planning your editing styles help in the preparation of creating your thriller film?
Planning the different editing styles we were going to use is very useful as now, when filming, we have an idea of how long to carry on the scene so that the fluidity between scences can be achieved. As well as this deciding which editing styles to use before hand allows us to speed up the editing process as now we can make quick decisions when editing each scene rather then having to decide afterwards. To add to this planning this also made sure we included a variety of editing styles and techniques so when it came to the final cut of our music video it can appropriately demonstrated our skills learned.
This post demonstrates some planning techniques. You have made a start in explaining what editing styles you would like to include within your production, but further discussion of why you have decided to include this within your music video is needed.
ReplyDeleteThis can be achieved by relating back to the lyrics of your song, to demonstrate further planning techniques of why you have decided to include certain styles within your production.
Also aim to elaborate on the points that you have included on soul and how the editing style will help to make your music video conventional.