Camerawork and editing notes
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Close-ups should be used frequently to fill the screen and create intimacy between the viewer and artist. Camera angles like high and low shots can represent power dynamics between characters. Aerial and tracking shots can follow artists' movements while isolated field shots portray characters as alone. The editing should include fast cut montages that are difficult to grasp initially, ensuring repeat viewings, and transitions that establish mood through pacing. Edits should match the music through rhythm and lyrics, and can employ split screens, colorization, and other digital effects. Faces and body parts can be fragmented and combined in montages at a rapid pace.
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Camerawork and editing notes
- 1. Camerawork and Editing Notes
- 2. Camerawork Close-ups must predominate due to: The size of the screen To create a sense of intimacy for the viewer (notion of looking) Emphasises half of the commodity on sale (not just the song, but the artist, and particularly the voice)
- 3. Camerawork High angle/low angle shots to represent who’s most powerful out of the characters Aerial shot stationary or spinning – spinning aerial shot or wire underneath mic on grass/leaves on the floor to end video Field shot – camera three yards away = character looks alone and isolated Tracking shots to follow artists, cutting from angle they’re being tracked from Close-ups with artist = size of screen/creates intimacy with viewer
- 4. Editing Fast cut montage Images impossible to grasp on first viewing Ensures multiple viewing Slow pace and gentler transitions to establish mood Editing to visuals to match music (on the beat and lyrics, fast and regular Digital effects: split screens, colourisation, enhancing colour
- 5. Editing Fragment the artists face and cut them together – could also use sections of their hands and costumer, then use this in a fast pace montage Digital effects – change filter over lighting = colourisation = completely red/blue etc Split screen, join two shots together – half of each the characters face’s with similar background