Analysis of my own music video

BY MOHRAIL

Postmodern Effect

One of my favorite scenes within the music video is the hall of mirror effect. This is where the main character stand in front of a mirror and through the mirror we see multiple copies of the main character. This effect is called the hall of mirror effect. This is an inspiration by Michel gonry's work where he likes to use the effect of the hall of mirrors which is the main aspect of postmodernism. We decided to use this in the scene where she is raging on the phone to her friend standing in front of the mirror where we could see multiple copies of her through the mirrors. This is to have an effect on the audience to confuse them to make the scene look distorted. This allows the audience to feel what the girl is feeling as she may be confused and distorted in how her boyfriend, the one she loves could cheat on her. It makes the audience connect with the character almost feeling the same and makes the audience look at the scene more closely which copies the idea that the girl may be looking and over thinking into how her boyfriend could of cheated on her.

Post modern effect

Another aspect of post modern effect used in our music video is when the boyfriend was sitting on the wall watching a violent movie. The camera had shown an extreme close up shot to what the boy was watching. This is also a point of view shot to show the audience what the boy was watching making them optimistic on why he was watching a violent movie. This could tell the audience that he is into violence and so he could be violent and aggressive almost making the boyfriend character a villain in the music video. It also adds realism to the shot as the audience adopt the same view as he character as the audience has an insight into what the character see. In this specific scene we have an idea that the boy is abusive and made the character more stereotypical to a bad boy by the mise en scene which is what he was wearing which was a black hoody. People often portrays boys with hoodies as trouble and in this case this is what we tried to emphasize to the audience

Camera Angles

One of the camera angle effect that we have used in our music video is a close up shot on the main character sitting on the floor on the bus. The close up shot is of the girl looking depressed and uncomfortable. The close up shots gives the audience a better view on how the girl is feeling by her facial expression.This creates sympathy for the girl and allows the audience to see the reaction of the character and allows the audience to connect with the character making us feel what she is feeling. The fast pace of the music video and the close up shot of the girls facial expression builds up tension and makes the audience want to know what has caused the girl to feel so distressed and upset having them sitting on the edge.

Camera angles

In our music video, we have decided to use an establishing shot of the view of the famous buildings in London Bridge to introduce the main character to the scene which in other words called pre-lap. This was used to show the audience where the action is taking place.This shot was used to introduce the character into the scene rather than just go to the scene straight away as It gives the audience an insight on where the characters location is based on. The establishing shot allows the audience to take in the layout.

Camera angels

When filming for our music video, we decided to use a high angle shot when the main character was on the floor crying and looked like she was going insane. The purpose of having the effect of the high angle shot is to tell the audience that the girl is vulnerable and we are looking down at her. This makes the audience feel sympathy and helpless towards the character.This effect is to make the character look much more smaller and tells the audience that the main character is vulnerable in the sense that she I heart broken and depressed that her boyfriend had cheated on her and makes the audience feel sorry for the character.

Effects

In the middle of the music video we have decided to put an effect on the main character where she walks into the bedroom to find her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend. The slow motion scene creates such an effect on the Audience as it emphasizes on the fact that the girl drops her bag in disbelief of her boyfriend cheating on her. This creates realism to the music video and shows the audience that the girl was not expecting to walk in to find that her boyfriend was cheating on her with her friend. The slow motion effect also makes that scene the main focus of the music video making it easier for the audience to know what the whole music video is based on and to show what the other scenes within the music video is all about, For example the scenes where the girl breaks down and cries. The fact that there is a slow motion effect on that specific scene makes tells the audience what the cause of the girls depression is which and creates a clear understanding of the whole music video.