University Portfolio Music Video (Practice, Experimental Music Video)

This was a music video which I produced for my portfolio to show at university interviews, which I made throughout the christmas holidays. The idea behind this music video was to evoke the emotions which the song portrays (such as violence, anger and threat) by challenging my creative vision up to something which could instantly make the audience feel for the characters involved, but to still recognize it as a music video.


Initially, I had decided for this to be a fight scene, filmed in the style of 'dance,' but that was not possible because of the dancers not being available when I was, etc, but I realized that it was important to work with what I had got, and to improvise. 


The main aspects in my music video which I had planned and anticipated to use from the start were:

• The plates smashing - as the girl turned around in anger whilst smashing the plates. I saw this as a strong effect from the start of my planning, and created the plates out of sugar (which I took the time to bake the night before). It took a while to learn how to make sugar glass, but I googled it on 'Film Props' and found successful results. The takes to get this shot right took 10, and the cleaning process afterwards took the majority of the day, but despite all of the draw backs, it was in my opinion the shot which was most important in the music video, as I connected everything else around it.
• The fighting - where the girl and boy push each other and try to grab each other. I made sure that I used extreme close ups, hand-held shots and very much "in your face" types of filming. I wanted the audience to feel uncomfortable and to feel as though they were an extra character in this argument/fight scene.  

MY MUSIC VIDEO

Love The Way You Lie (Part II) - Rihanna Ft.Eminem 

Influences:

My main influences came from this video.

Did It Again - Shakira

This is my storyboard which I spent five days creating in preparation for my music video. However, with all the coursework and revision I had to do, I knew that I could only create the start of this storyboard. 


I spoke to a person who is very wise and knowledgeable about the film/television industry, and he said that I was to make sure that each picture in the storyboard clearly showed what the camera was to be shooting whilst filming. I found this very useful when filming.