Planning cinematography.

We will use various long shots in our music video to help establish our setting and locating to the audience, the long shot will help make the audience aware of the location which will be in keeping with our music genre. The locations will be vital as all of the shots and locations also help establish our music genre too as well as the artist, the long shots also help create an image for the video and make it more memorable. Varying the shots and locations will make it more interesting for the audience as opposed to an artist singing in one location with a close-up shot, the long shot will also make it more obvious to the scenes to follow for example: a long shot could help establish that the scene taking place is a forest rather than skipping straight to a mid-shot of an artist with tree's in the background confusing the audience.

 

Close-up shots will also feature in our music video, partly because its performance based having a close up will help make the performance aspect look real if the character mimes the lyrics well. The close up's will also make it more personal to the audience making them feel as though they're interacting with the artist. As well as this the artists emotions and reactions to things happening in the music video will help create a certain atmosphere for the audience, the party atmosphere that will be created for our dance music video will require close-up shots to portray to the audience the mood and atmosphere in the scene/location. Certain lyrics are more important in the song to connote certain aspects of our music video so the close-up shot will also make it easier to emphasis the lyrics and make it more intense by singing towards the camera and audience, it will make our music video slightly easier to create if we use someclose-up shots as the reaction will help inform the audience what's happening in the scene and how the artist feels about it.

 

Mid-shots will also be included in our music video as it helps build a relationship between the artist and the music video, rather than just include close-up's we need to apply the artist to the lcoations and scene we're creating in our music video. The mid-shot will also help focus on the artist despite the background scene to highlight the significance of the artist, we think a mid-shot could also show the artists statusas it will show the dance genre music video revolving around the artist giving him star status. The mid-shot may make editing slightly easier too as it will be consistent to the scene's we'll display in the long shots, the mid-shot consists of both long shot but features the artist  too like in close-up shots. The mid-shot could connote a lot of things too such as the manic lifestyles of a artist surrounding them if they're present in the centre of a mid-shot.