EVALUATION - Question 1, Section A

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

1) A shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals

This shot of Hayleigh walking into the house is shown as the lyrics sung say; 'Every step  that I take is another mistake to you'. Showing a relationship between the lyrics and visuals. It also seen in other parts of the video as well as links between the music and visuals.

2) A shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented

This shot typifies the way a record company would want the artist to be reperesnted as she is standing on her own omfprtably, showing her individuality as well as showing off her style. The shot is focused on herself in the music studio, showing the two most important things a record company want to sell; their act (Hayleigh) and their music.

3) A shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre

This shot shows the two genres of our music videos. Our video is split into two main colour styles (shown in the picture), black and white and normal colour (with the brightness and saturates increased). The black and white represents the performance genre and the brighter/normal colour represents the narrative genre.  

4) a shot that shows an intertextual reference

 This shot mirrors a shot taken from the music video by Eminem and Rihana for their song Love The Way You Lie. Throughout the video, the two characters (other than Eminem and Rihana) are constantly fighting when insde their house. The fighting is both verbal and physical; one of the physical scenes see's the male character pushing the female character, which used as inspiration for this shot   

5) A shot that demonstrates your use of camera

I  used many different shots in my music video, such as Long Shots, Close Ups, Point of View Shots, Over the shoulder Shots and Mid Shots.. This shot shows an over the sholder shot of Hayleigh holding a pictuire frame. The shot before this showed her walking into the house happy, holding something and looking down at it. The next shot (this shot) then shows  what she is holding, which is made obvious as we can see part of the back of her head; as if we are her.

6) A shot that demonstrates your use of lighting

In our video, there are 3 types of lighting; black and white (for when our artist is singning in the studio), scenes where the lighting has been enhanced and brighetend (for the narratvie sections) and finally there are two scenes where i changed colour of the light from normal to red (for the parts where Hayleigh and George are fighting). This shot demonstrates one of the shots i changed to red, to symbolise the anger

7) A shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene

This shot shows one of the settings and some of the props we used in our video. This particular shot shows Frankie (who plays our artist Hayleigh) singing in the music studio, props seen here included the Microphones and the Headphones.

8&9) Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other music videos

8) The first shot is from the song 'Getting Over You' by David Guetta featuring Fergie.

It shows as female artist (as we have) singing/performing her song in a music studio. We have a group of similar shots in our  video, as the sections where we see our artist singing are all in a music studio.

9) The second shot is from the music video 'Love The Way You Lie' by Eminem and Rihanna.

This shot shows two people, who are in a relationship fighting; for a reason unknown to the viewer. In our video we use a similar scene, where the two characters; Frankie and George have a fight. The difference is, that in our video the viewer see's why they are fighting and why Frankie is angry with George.