Sunday, 16 September 2012

Media Task: Carol Vernallis

Experiencing Music Video: Cultural Context 

Her theory: 

She observed that edits in music videos are much more frequent compared to edits in a film and that many stand out as disjucture with a rhythmic basis closely connected to the song 

Main Points of Observation:

  • Rules of 'continuity' editing (usually found in classic broadcast fiction) are broken in order to draw attention to what is on screen 
  • Edits may really obvious to draw attention to themselves e.g. wipes and special effects 
  • Jump cuts used often
  • A master shot (base track) frequently used to give the video a structure 
  • The camera moving in time with the music 


Coldplay - Viva La Vida, a lot of jump cuts and special effects 




Vato Gonzalez ft Foreign Brother- Badman Riddim, camera moves in time with the music 




Rihanna -Umbrella, frequently uses base tracks to structure her video 

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