Review of Project

I think this music will be better than the commercial. The commercial was kind of hard for me and my group. We didn't really know how to do a lot of stuff because it was so new to us. But, now that were are more familiar with Pinnacle Studios, how to film, and how to edit I believe this will be a lot easier. In our previous project, I think we did a good job at planning. I think we also did a good job at thinking of back plans. We had a plan for everything that happened even if it was something that didn't go our way.

Hip hop/ Rap is the most common genre in music and is being played on repeat on our radios. The genre has so many elements to it. It is to the point where there are over twenty other smaller genres in this hip hop/ Rap genre; Small genres such as lyrical rap and alternative rap was exhibited through our song “No Fear”.

When it comes to the camera angles in the music videos it’s very common to see low angles, long shot, and Dutch. The establishing shot and tracking shot is used in every music video as well as medium long shot.

The music video itself has a lot of sound but there are things that go on beyond that for the whole video to come to life such as non-diegetic sound, sound bridge, and dialogue.

The editing part of the music videos are very creative, i see a lot of cross cutting, eye-line match, and action match. The most popular editing is graphic match when scenes are matching with each other.

There is also mis-en-scene that goes into making the whole video and it includes things like #1 the genre ; In genre's with hip hop/rap the kind of costumes that they wear are things that are popular at the moment so it can be things like designer outfits (Balenciaga, Christian Louboutin) with accessories such as big chains and shades.

2. The lighting in the music videos are usually dark and flashy lights since they shoot the videos in a house, but they also tend to switch scenes and go outside to shoot their videos as well so natural light from the sun is also used

3. Most of the time in music videos it’s usually the artist just singing the song but sometimes there is acting i realized that it usually has to deal with someone being in character and talking on the phone or even acting as if they are having a dance battle like in Chris brown no guidance.

4.As i look closer i notice that everyone does have on makeup but it tend to always be a nice natural look nothing too crazy.

5. To spice everything up props that are commonly used are cars and stacks of money

6. When researching I noticed a lot of the same settings but some were really different it varied from roof tops, houses, hotels, and some even on train tracks or in the middle of nowhere on an open road but, most were in an urban setting living the “lavish” lifestyle