Video Research

Camera Shots

EWS (Extreme Wide Shot)
The view is so far from the subject that he isn't even visible. Often used as an establishing shot.

VWS (Very Wide Shot)
The subject is visible (barely), but the emphasis is still on placing him in his environment.

WS (Wide Shot)
The subject takes up the full frame, or at least as much as comfortably possible. AKA long shot.

MS (Mid Shot)
Shows some part of the subject in more detail while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

MCU (Medium Close Up)
Half way between a MS and a CU.

CU (Close Up)
A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.

ECU (Extreme Close Up)
The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

Cut-In
Shows some (other) part of the subject in detail.

CA (Cutaway)
A shot of something other than the subject.

Two-Shot
A shot of two people, framed similarly to a mid shot.

(OSS) Over-the-Shoulder Shot
Looking from behind a person at the subject.

Noddy Shot
Usually refers to a shot of the interviewer listening and reacting to the subject.

Point-of-View Shot (POV)
Shows a view from the subject's perspective.

Weather Shot
The subject is the weather. Can be used for other purposes, e.g. background for graphics.

Video Research

After looking at the beatles i think that i would like to focus on bands as the theme for our music video.
im now going to look at differetn bands whos songs we may be interested in using for our music video.

Video Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8tYwyphInk

This the link for the song 'Love Me Do' by The Beatles. They were amoungst the first to make a music video. This was thier first ever single and it achieved UK mainstream success in late 1962.

The video consists of film of the band performing...

and individual photgraphs that are shot on the screen...

Again it it very amatuer and plain but effactive and gripping as the song was such a big hit.

Research

Music Videos.

'A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song.'

When sound films and talkies arrived in 1926, many musical short films were produced.

Warner Bros produced Vitaphone shorts (1926–30) these featured bands, vocalists and dancers.

The series entitled spooney melodies was the first true musical video series. The short filsm were normally about six minutes long, and featured art deco style animations and backgrounds along with film of the performer singing the song.

This series of shorts can arguably be considered to be the earliest music videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4hnwt8jdU - This is Spooney Melodies: Crying for the Carolines (1929) one of the first 'music videos' ever.

It is very old fashioned, the pictures are slow and obviously back and white, and there are shots of the man singing. it is very simple and plain and shows the lack of technology!