The first inspirational music video that I cam across was ‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay, which was shot entirely backwards, taking a lot of skill from the cast and imagination from the director. It was particularly impressive as Coldplay’s vocalist, Chris Martin, was still miming the lyrics even though it was shot in reverse, taking a lot of talent and patience.
Stunts are used in this music video as a car swerves off of the road and rolls down a marsh hill. This presents an event contrapuntal to the song’s high, soothing tune and amorous lyrics.
This Video falls into the category between ‘documentary’ and non-narrative abstract. It uses documentary style by the fact that it presents a form of everyday life or reality and it is abstract in terms of its shooting style and does not follow a consecutive narrative.
Another inspirational music video is the classic ‘Nothing Compares to You’ by Sinead O’Connor. This music video is shot almost entirely at a close up shot of Sinead O’Connor singing the song and the instrumental sections accompanied by a sequence of shots of statues of art. This video is very personal and the audience are able to see the emotion following the lyrics of the song. The close ups of O’Connor means that she is speaking almost directly to the audience and telling them her story. I think that this video illustrates how complicated camera shots and movements and fancy editing is not key to producing a sucessful music video. This music video represents the success of simplicity.
Although the narrative of the song is followed through the lyrics, it is no acted out in the video as a Live Action video but falls into the category of a non-narrative video because there are un-related shots of statues and sculptures.
Stunts are used in this music video as a car swerves off of the road and rolls down a marsh hill. This presents an event contrapuntal to the song’s high, soothing tune and amorous lyrics.
This Video falls into the category between ‘documentary’ and non-narrative abstract. It uses documentary style by the fact that it presents a form of everyday life or reality and it is abstract in terms of its shooting style and does not follow a consecutive narrative.
Another inspirational music video is the classic ‘Nothing Compares to You’ by Sinead O’Connor. This music video is shot almost entirely at a close up shot of Sinead O’Connor singing the song and the instrumental sections accompanied by a sequence of shots of statues of art. This video is very personal and the audience are able to see the emotion following the lyrics of the song. The close ups of O’Connor means that she is speaking almost directly to the audience and telling them her story. I think that this video illustrates how complicated camera shots and movements and fancy editing is not key to producing a sucessful music video. This music video represents the success of simplicity.
Although the narrative of the song is followed through the lyrics, it is no acted out in the video as a Live Action video but falls into the category of a non-narrative video because there are un-related shots of statues and sculptures.
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