REFLECTING

I have recently come across a music video by a band called the Eurythmitics. The music video to the band's song Beethoven, has given me some ideas and has helped me to visualise my thought process of my music video. 

The music video represents a house wife who is becoming frustrated of her day to day life. In my music video I would like to show the male character in the same state as the house wife. I like the way the music video uses fast paced editing techniques. I have decided that I would like to use this technique in the process of editing my music video. 

Personally I like the quirky style of the music video and the hidden meaning behind it. At the beginning of the music video the housewife is shown performing a monologue, this is smilier to the idea of my music video as I will be using a poem at the beginning got add more context and narrative to my music video. The dramatic monologue also creates an emotional relationship between the character and the audience. 

The video is set in one location, a house. Where most of my video will be set. The location of the video suggests a tense atmosphere due to the enclosed spacial areas. The dark lighting and fast pace editing also creates a tension, suggesting that there is a climax to the end of the music video. 

As the music video progresses, a male character dressed as a woman. The character is shown discretely through out the music video, in corners of rooms and in darker areas in the frame. 

Towards the end of the music video, editing techniques such as shot reverse shot, are used to present the character in more detail. 

The use of dark lighting with a concentrated spot light on the actors face, us something that I would like to replicate in the processes of filming close ups of my main protagonist. I feel that these type of shots would fit well in the opening sequence of my music video. 

When the poem is being performed I would like to use shots like these, to enable the audience to understand the nature of the music video. The music video also portray the character from different angles which I also favour, and have considered when story boarding my ideas. 

As you  can see from the stills that I have captured from the sic video, different angles of the character  are used to present their personality and identity. 

At the beginning of my music video, I picture the cross dresser sitting at a mirror, surrounded by dark lighting with a spot light on their face. I have seen similarities with my ideas to the video that I am analysing. 

In the music video, by the Eurythmics, the housewife is shown placed at a dressing table surrounded by dark lighting and concentrated lighting on her face. The use of dark lighting and spot lights represents a secretive ambience, whilst also building tension with in the audience. There is a sense of climax, which intrigues the audience to feel stay gripped to the narrative of the music video. Following this shot, close up shots of the housewife face are used to present her emotions in what she is about to do. 

The use of overlaying clips is used to create a flow with in the duration of the music video, an editing technique that I will be using. 

The music video then reaches a climax. When the house wife is presented in less mundane clothing. She is shown wearing excessive amounts of make up and glamorous clothing. The character is then shown acting in an extravagant expressive way, as if she is presenting her true identity. I would like to adapt this concept the the climax of my music video. 

After watching and analysing this music video I feel that I am now able to story board my idea as I have a more visualised concept of what my music video is going to look like.