Music Video Research

Now that we have our artist and locations. It was time to do some research into what sort of shots to use when it comes to shooting our performance and narrative in our music video.

We decided to look at similar artist who write songs and have a similar sound to our artist. These consisted of Ben Howard, James Morrison, Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson, Ed Sheeran and mostly John Mayer.

We took note of their music videos and came to the conclusion that most of the shot used were close ups/ mid, low angle movement to give power prospective to the artist. We also noted that the camera was never still and always had some sort of movement eg tracking or just on a steady cam, it was never on a tripod unless in a wide shot where we could see everything including the surroundings.

Here are some of the music videos we looked at and took some notes from