Analysis of opening shots of students work

Opening shots of Wake Up- A2 Media Studies Music Video Analysis

Ellie and I have found ourselves struggling in terms of how we want to start our music video. After analysing professional music videos by bands such as Fall Out Boy and Catfish And The Bottlemen I took it upon myself to look into students music video openings from previous year groups. One that really stood out to me in regards to the opening of the music video was a students music video to the song Wake Up by Zara Larsson. The shot opens with a widening landscape cut from black to a moving image of the road with cars parked either side, this confirms to the audience that the setting for the music video will be a basic English town (or so the audience is made to believe at this point in the video). AS this shot continues large, bold white text appears with the artist's name and song title. The font used is a typical font associated with the Dance/electronic music videos. The opening beats of the song contrast to the high speed of the vehicle in which the go pro is attached to. The next shot is very similar to the first but shows a higher perspective shot showing the road ahead, this shot is accompanied with the next line of text which depicts the director of the music video in the same conventional large white font. The next series of shots show a block of flats, then the inside of the ground floor apartments, the shots follow a young man waking up and going about his morning routine, and over the shoulder shot of the man’s face looking at himself in the mirror shows his emotions clearly, the man appears tired and bored to the audience. The opening is relatively simple in regards to the rest of the video and the events that unfold. To add to this the opening shots of the students work will act as a corner stone to the narrative of the video as the character in the video will end the video where it began. This is a unique idea that Ellie and I could develop in our own way, where the narrative starts and ends in a similar fashion, as though the audience has followed the character and/or characters on a roundtrip and the video draws to and end where it opened.