Editing: various terms: jumping cutting, MTV style editing or montage editing. creating the visually de-centred experience of 'jumping' from location to person to instrument without any normal narrative continuity. Instead it is often the beat of the rhthm of the track which provides the organsing principle of editing movement. the editing moves so fast it creates the need for viewing 'Repeatedly'. there are exceptions though. some 'Continuity editing' used such as atmospheric dissolve shots such as in sinhead O'Connor's-'Nothing compares to you'.
Camera Shots: jumping directly between long shots, close ups and extreme close ups. Primarily the close up on the singer's face is the main generic convention for music videos. Also the extreme close up on the lips for lip synching.
Camera Movement: Whip pans, fast dolly track shots and fast overhead crane shots to follow the running, walking or dancing of performers. Also fast vertical tilts and horizontal pans.
Lighting: Expressive lighting a key feature of music videos. Extreme artifical light to create the bleaching effect on pop stars faces (making them seem ageless). Also the use of switching from colour to black & white or sepia to indicate a shift from shorus to verse. Also lighting effects such as strobes or flashing needs to be identified.
By Taslima.
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