Planning Cinematography - Miss Georgiou

Why is cinematography essential within a music video?

Cinematography is an essential element within a music video as it keeps the audience engaged in what is happening in the music video itself. If the music video was one continuous shot throughout it would be extremely boring for the audience, whereas if a large collection of different camera angles were used ranging from the standard shots such as Mid-shots and Close Ups being largely used throughout and more entertaining shots from Extreme Close Ups and Establishing Shots to engage them further. By using a wide array of shots it may make the audience want to view the video again to see if they have missed any elements due to the rapid speed of shots. It will also be more memorable and stand out for them if this is achieved. Another reasons why cinematography is highly important is due to the fact that it may make the narrative more understand by having more camera angles as then the shots are sticking to the point instead of being continuous and linking setting together without actually showing how the artist/character had got there.

Handheld Reverse Close-Up - This Camera Angle isn't widely used across the genre but in a way it can relate to Psychedelic Rock. As this genre does have a general focus on drugs and to enhance there effects, this shot can be used as it can relate to drugs or drink as it is positioned on the actor/actress and follows their movements. When they are acting to be under this manor then this is when the shot is most effective as it will be moving constantly rather than just minimal compared to that of just a walking version of this shot. This camera shot will help us represent our artist as it will have a constant focus on them rather than location such as other shots that we are going to use. Also the audience will feeling a connected relationship to the artist as this is going to be one of the closest shots to the artist face as we intend.

In addition this will help to represent the ideas of the usage of drugs that we want to heavily reinforce to our audience as it helps to follow the movement of the body completely and immediately gets the effect across quickly and coherently. Lyrics that we could possible use "But it seems the way to go when trying, so hard to get something real".  In my eyes it reflect the use of drugs as the only way that the artist  can get as close to getting something real as he's tried so hard he needs a release to get away from his troubles, the theme of escapism.

Ark Shot - Once again this shot is not used widely across the genre but is can relate to its conventions. This shot has various connotations that can be seen across the genre. This shot involves the camera at use going around the body or head of the person in focus. This shot will enable the artist to build a brief but extended relationship with the artist as this is going to be one of the longest shots that we use in our music video and will directly involve the artist (Jazz) himself. The audience will focus on his face mainly trying to figure out his facial expressions and what it is he is seeing/ experiencing and possible relate if they figure out what it is. It could involve a link to drugs or even the suicide scene to have a more promenade effect but only if focused on the character.
Lyrics that can be used are ones that have already been mentioned as these are the only once with suicidal links or drugs.

Tracking Shot, In our research into the genre this is one of the shots that I have seen so I would say it is rather conventional to the genre our video is going to represent. In our video this shot is going to be seen when we will be following our artist with the camera directly across the road when he is at a distance going into the station. The shot represents the artist as being ideal and distant from the audience. This has been done on purpose as the narrative that we are following the artist is meant to be contemplating his thoughts over the break up he has had with his girlfriend in a long term relationship.
Lyrics that we would use in the context of this shot would be "It feels like we are going backwards" and similar lyrics as it goes against what is going on screen as he will be walking forwards and away rather than backwards, in addition it could also represent the idea that he is ready to move away from her and contemplate his thoughts.

Panning Shot, Yet again I have seen the use of this type of shot used to establish the setting that the music video has been using in our research so therefore it can be deemed as conventional to the genre. This shot will not in turn represent the artist directly but it will rather focus on setting the location of our starting scene. It made make the audience feel that the artist is rather similar to them as we have used this shot in a rather relatable location, make the artist seem down to earth with a normal and extravagant location which in some cases is lost when in other mainstream genres such as pop and R&B where artists tend to promote the theme of wealth and richness, which may be relatable for some audiences but not the majority.

I do not feel that it would be suitable for any lyrics to be used with this shot as this is going to happen at the start of the music video when no singing takes place to establish the setting.

High Angle, I have not seen this shot be widely used across the genre but it is an addition we as a group feel is needed due to the idea we have of using a time lapse within our music video. This shot will feature the artist (Jazz) standing in a location set of Liverpool Street station where thousands of people will be walking pass him while he is stood still. We will be filming for around ten minutes before in the editing stage we will condense this to a few seconds. This may confuse the audience but we are using this to make the artist seem like he is losing track of time due to the fact that he has a lot of thoughts on his mind at this given time which we want to be apparent to the audience.

Lyrics that we could possible use to represent the idea of losing track of time are "Cause I decided long ago" due to its time reference or "So hard to get something real" maybe he can't form a relationship due to his lack of commitment due to his personal life or that he doesn't have the time to form a full time relationship hence why he is sleeping around etc.




In summary the shots that we plan to use within our music video have been carefully selected so that our target audience can build a strong relationship with our artist. Each shot has a specific way it makes the audience feel as already explained. These shots should work as intended and at the end of the video make the audience feel as they have a strong understanding/ bond with the artist before this is taken away when our artist is going to indirectly commit suicide and take away this strong bond with the audience.