Music Videos I Admire

To gather more inspiration for my music video, I have analysed three music videos which all have aspects that I would like to take and use in my video

Jack White - I'm Shakin'


·         Blue and Black colour scheme/tint.
·         Opposing bands with the same members, spparated by the colour of their style and colours of clothes.
·         Small narrative of couple dancing, then end up dancing with the band.
·         Set in a warehouse, which is painted two different colours.
·         The two bands represent the innier thoughts of Jack, which is reinforced by the lyrics.

In my video, I would like to use the idea of having one colour theme throughiut the video. I might also have asmall nbarrative that then links to the main performance.


·         Constant close ups of instruments and band, shallow focus/wide aperture.
·         Different background colours behind each band member.
·         Typical indie clothing (regular casual clothes, converses).
·         Split screen of the band, shows the whole band without breaking the pattern of only close-ups.
·         Very fast pace of editing to keep up with the speed of the song.
·         Close-ups of the band becoming more energetic as the song picks up the pace.

From this video, I want to use the fast pace and the closeups form vdeo as well as the same kind of costume.



·         Close up of instruments and band members, sometimes silhouetted.
·         Low key lighting apart from some lights which light up the band.
·         Wide and narrow aperture, lots of camera shots– high angle, mid shot
·         Lots of panning shots of the band and the location.
·         Over the shoulder shots which shows the singer and the location
·         As the song builds up, the lights become brighter
I will use the same kind of lighting from this video as well as some of the low and high angle shots which make the video interesting.

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