Research blog: Music Video Conventions

Counting Stars genre: folk pop, pop rock

Other songs in these genres:

 

There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back by Shawn Mendes

 

CAMS

  • There are tracking shots in the video when it shows Shawn and the girl running during the faster paced part of the song.
  • There is an over the shoulder shot in the video.
  • A lot of the shots in the video are two-shots to show both Shawn and the girl.

Editing

  • The video starts with a wide shot of a beach, and then cuts to a black screen with Shawn's name on the screen in white text.
  • The editors use cross-cutting to switch between scenes of Shawn singing at a concert and him with the girl various other settings.
  • The editors cut from a closeup of Shawn and the girl holding hands to a medium long shot of them going down an escalator.

Sound

  • At the beginning of the video there is the ambient sound of a train going by in the background.
  • The song is a diegetic sound and is the majority of the sound in the video.
  • At the end of the video there is an ambient noise of waves crashing on a beach.

Mis-en-scene (CLAMPS)

  • There are 4 settings in the video which are a beach, a stadium where Shawn is having a concert, a train, and the city of Paris.
  • When Shawn enters the stage in the stadium for his concert the lights start to come on as he walks up.
  • Shawn and the girl are wearing regular everyday clothes in the video which makes you think that they are regular people.

 

Whatever It Takes by Imagine Dragons

 

CAMS

  • At the beginning of the video, the camera was zoomed in on the lead singer and then zoomed out to show the whole band.
  • Most of the shots were close-ups of the band members and some showed the whole band.
  • Almost every shot was at eye level with the band members.

Editing

  • At the beginning of the video the editors fade between a video of the lead singer swimmer and some other shots that preview what comes later in the video.
  • When the video shows the whole band for the first time, there was a cutaway between each band member and the whole band.
  • About halfway through the video, the editors use cross-cutting to switch between scenes of the band and scenes of people swimming.

Sound

  • About 4/5 of the way through the video, the song pauses, and you can hear underwater noises which are ambient sounds.
  • The majority of the video is the band singing their song which would be diegetic sound.
  • Even though the editors use ambient water sounds in this one scene they don't use it anywhere else in the video.

Mis-en-scene (CLAMPS)

  • There is one set throughout the video which is a house that breaks, gets flooded and then gets set on fire in that order.
  • During the part of the video when the house has flooded there are women swimming through the water that are wearing multicolored masks and bathing suits.
  • The lighting in the video starts dark, then a light turns on and when it starts raining there is a flash signaling the start of the storm.

 

What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction

 

CAMS

  • The video consists mainly of eye level shots but has some low angles as well.
  • The video also has dutch angles in it and also has lots of panning shots.
  • They used wide shots to show the scenery around the band members and then used medium and medium close-up shots on the band members.

Editing

  • At the beginning of the video the editors fade scenes in and out.
  • The editors cut between scenes of the band singing and scenes of the band members playing on the beach throughout the video.
  • The editors also fade between scenes at the end of the video.

Sound

  • The video starts with an ambient sound of waves crashing on a beach.
  • The song is diegetic sound and is the main thing you hear in the video.
  • The video also ends with an ambient sound of waves crashing on a beach.

Mis-en-scene (CLAMPS)

  • The setting for the video was a beach.
  • The band and the other people in the video were wearing the clothes that they would be wearing if they were hanging out and playing soccer on a beach.
  • The props that were used in the video were a soccer ball, a bonfire pit, and sparklers.

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