(Music Video) Reflection - Week 2 - Case Studies

This week i focused on my contextual research and case studies, the two case studies i had were two music videos, these music videos were called 'Baddest and 'Genie' in my case studies i wrote about the details of each music video and why things were used, for example lighting and camera shots/movements. On my case study on 'Baddest' i wrote that the music video begins slowly and the audience is shown multiple b-roll shots of what locations it has been shot at. From this case study i wanted to take the idea of using b-roll shots and using it in my final music video, this is because the song 'Baddest' links and has the same concept to my final music video. Moreover i also want to take the idea of the composition of the music video, i like how the videographer shot some shot and i like how the director directed the music video due to the face it affects the audience.

Moving onto my contextual research, my contextual research consists of the history of music videos and the understanding of music videos these researches will help me within my final project because it will help get an idea of what my music video will look like, for example with my history of music videos i have spoken about the pioneers of music video and why they became it, during my research i found out that the music video created was the reason and the lyrics, this gave me an idea to create a music video that people can remember, one artist that inspires me is Soulja Boy this is because of his famous dance and lyrics.