Music Video Mini Project

How does your knowledge of cinematography inform your artistic choices in your video?

    My knowledge of cinematography informs artistic choices in the video by using combinations of close ups, medium shots, long shots, dolly shots, and moving/tracking shots to create a music video. In the moment, it was sometimes difficult to try to keep all the subjects in the frame without their heads or feet being cut off (as needed), made worse by the phone that was being filmed on having a privacy screen protector "blacking out" as a person looks at an angle as I recorded the scenes and my groupmates were dancing/acting. The knowledge that we attained in class helped formulate what a close up, medium shot, and long shot looked like, and dollying in/out with my hands and feet (as the person who recorded the video) to achieve the requirements needed in the video for differing types of shots. It also felt intuitive to try to move smoothly as possibly with hands and feet (soft steps) to not get shaky footage/minimise shaking in the absence of any stabilising device or steadicam devices. For example, the establishing and closing shot was filmed with hand/arm movements to make it smooth as possible. The rule of thirds and the sub-conscious knowledge of needing to keep figures in frame (and not get awkwardly chopped off) also contributed to filming the shots by moving the camera and myself as needed to ensure the correct close up, medium shot, long shot, etc. is captured without unnecessary headspace or chopped off figures. This can be seen in scenes where there are moving figures and needing to keep up/move myself to ensure the scenes stay dynamic and the whole video is not static non-moving shots, which would be boring. The group also aimed to replicate some parts of the original music video of the song, which also influenced some of the artistic choices such as the first dancing sequences featuring medium shots (along with dollying the camera to move around the subject). Again, soft feet and smooth motion was critical to try to prevent unnecessary and obviously blatant shaking that would degrade the quality of the project. The knowledge of close ups also helped influence artistic choices by getting a close up the dancer's shoe at the start of the video as the main "subject" in focus for a viewer. These are ways my knowledge of cinematography influenced the artistic choices in the video. 


Storyboard:  A page of a storyboard AI-generated content may be incorrect.

Storyboard notes: 1: Pan over quad as establishing shot​

2: Angie on Balcony, zoom into headphone. (CU)​

3: Fades into Angie dancing, replicating the original dance(CU/MS)​

4: Angie approaches Dakota, Still dancing. (Tracking shot)​

5: Angie starts dancing in Dakota's space, convincing her to dance. (CU)​

6: Angie and Dakota walk down the stairs dancing. (LS)​

7: Sequenced is continued as they walk down the hall in the same manner. (LS)​

8: Paola Struggles to open her locker. (CU)​

9: Paola is still trying to open her locker, Angie and Dakota are now present in the background (Deep Composition)​

10: Angie snatches Paola's hand. (ECU)​

11: Angie pulls Paola to dance. (MS)​

12. All three are dancing down the hall (LS)​

13: Final/grand dance scene in front of IRC. (LS)​

14: Pan from quad to balcony, opposite of establishing scene. ​

15: Back from Angie's Headphone. (CU)

Video: https://youtu.be/vy7WI4IbADQ 

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