Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Conventions of music videos

These conventions obviously differ from genre to genre but I found these conventions to be generally applicable to most videos!

This is an example of a crane shot in Taylor Swifts: "22" video:

Here is an example of hand held camera shots in Beyonce's: "Yoncé" video:



Below is an example of a quick pan shot in Beyonce's "bow down" video:

The gif below shows a tracking shot following the dancer in Sia's video for "chandelier:"


This zoom shot below is from Taylor Swift's "we are never getting back together" video:



This snippet from Jay-z and Kanye Wests' "Niggas in Paris" video shows fast pace editing:


Beyonce 'broke the fourth wall' frequently in her video for "broken-hearted girl" as demonstrated below:













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