Similar product research 6 - Shot types and editing

One Direction – Little Things

The first shot is a long shot of the band walking into a studio. The entire video has a black and white filter on it, which I think may look quite effective in our video, as it would fit the lyrics and our initial setting ideas. However I feel like we would only put a few shots in black and white or only the shots in one particular setting as if we did the whole video in black and white it wouldn’t give us much opportunity to show off our skills in making the correct setting with the right colour schemes and we want to show our artist with red lipstick down her face which wouldn’t be as effective in black and white. Unless we only picked out the red colouring and made the rest black and white. (Colourisation)

On the behind the scenes video of this we can see the dollying device they used for filming around the studio. If we were to film on a hard floor where a shopping trolley for example would run smoothly, we could use this technique however we would have to practice with it to see if it works and to make sure it is steady.

All their costumes are casual and there are a lot of shots of them smiling and laughing which show the laid-back attitude of the song lyrics and their band image. Our initial costume ideas were to dress Morgan in a little black dress as that is the title of the song we’re using.

There are close ups of the instruments being played, we will not use this technique although it is a stereotypical aspect of music videos because our video is to show the feelings and emotions of the song and lyrics coming trough Morgan in the way she sings and the mise en scene.

There are a lot of extreme close ups of the artists singing in this video, we will definitely be using some extreme close ups to show her hair and makeup as this supports the idea that music videos were made for the fans to get close up to the artist.

I like the zoom shots to the artist as they are singing and I think this will look effective in our video.