Research (Generic)- Music Videos

This post contains a compilation of shots from a number of different music videos that seem achievable with my existing knowledge and skills in cinematography.


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• Series of short takes of props/artist with brightly coloured backgrounds to represent the happy, 'young love' themed music. 
• These props are things that I already own
• Due to the tight frame, it can be easy just to use a coloured wall or a large sheet of coloured paper to recreate something like this.
• The lighting is very soft. This can recreated using natural sunlight or artificial light and a makeshift light diffuser. 

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• Again, lots of cutaways shots of school related images.

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These shots are both quite similar and I think it would be very effective to recreate this look if my chosen song is slow paced. However the colour palette and lighting in these shots are very dramatic. Therefore, if I were to facilitate the colour palette and lighting in my own music video ........