Performance and Narrative Videos

Something that I have noticed is that music videos are hardly ever either narrative and performance, usually a mixture of both. This is what we as a group would like to do. Most of the time this is a character in the video lip syncing or cuts to the artist performing dispersed throughout the narrative. Here are some examples:

 

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Thriller Music Video and Narrative

The Thriller music video was a game-changer for music videos in that it introduced the concept of an extended narrative to a music video, which is something that we as a group might be interested in.

 

Since this video was released, most music videos contain at least some kind of narrative and some are entirely narrative. Some examples are below and I have noticed that they often contain a shocking twist at the end.

Bohemian Rhapsody

The music video to Bohemian Rhapsody was very advanced for the time (1975) and the use of lighting and different camera angles is very effective. Although we can't match Queen, the way the video mixes between a live performance and very dramatic lighting could be used as an inspiration in some way.

Performance videos

We have been looking at the different types of music videos, although we are not looking to do a purely performance video, it is useful to see what the typical videos look like, as we may want to include some performance elements to our video. They usually involve dancing and a band.

Inspiration: Colour Bandits

Today in my group we were discussing ideas for our music video and we liked the idea of using coloured powder. The video below is a spoken word piece, but I think it uses powder very well.

My Group

My group for making the music video is Megan, JB, Kirti and myself. The links to their blogs are in the sidebar.