Genre and Diegesis

Recognising music videos genres without sound sounds strange, indeed it is strange, but turned out not to be a very dengerous job. It is surprisingly a straightforward thing to categorize a music video by watching people, their styles, movements and all the details how things are arranged in a video clip. This is due to the familiar norms we know from our society, we are okay with and even the ones we apply or lead our life according to.

The diegesis, which means the narrative's voice is a feature that you obviously have to hear and listen to when you deal with a music video and its analysis. Even withouth the actual realisation that we are listening to a story told, the narrator or the script of the music tells us one.
E.g. The ugly girl in the video explains her desires, her exact state and her point of view on the Platoon love affair with the cool neighbour guy.
Next, the more information we can gather from the video is the setting of it, as it is located in a sub-urban area, where these kids live their middle-class, teeange life. At highschool cool guys play football and 'nerds' play in the marching band. All the clothes, cars,daily accessories show their status and give suggestions to their behaviours (girl reading book/stuuding all the time, guy gave a lift by his girlfriends new cabrio).
With all these seen/heared additional informations we get a picture of what the producer of the video/soundtrack intends to communicate for us and therefor according to our personal taste we like it or not.

Week 2

In the second week, we have discussed and made clear the 1st assignment how it should be made. Next to this theoretical overview of the MTV channel and video clips were given, with a review of several videos. esp. favouring Madonna;) the ever green, who is still capable of selling the same core messege in a different coating for some 20 yrs:D that's the way a real star should do the job;)
Otherwise taking care of the cam to be sure that it is on hip level when taking a dance to see the person in one shot or how to film when the person drops to the ground, should be fun.
On the other hand, different types such as teenage rock, RUN DMC hiphop and various genres were discussed to fit the production of our videos and its music types/styles.

week 1 Intorduction

The afterlife and so called second part of the video production and motion picture studies is the music video production, which is indeed not a new thing to me, as we have done already some sound and music to the previous films in last semester.
However, in this semester the focus will be on the production of two films, which are focused on the taught material of music clips. A different area, with a different purpose, to make an impression via a shorter but more dense and effective performance recorded on camera.
This is talking for itself I guess, let's see how it looks in real;)