Small Task

we have been asked to start to plan a start of a performance video of the first 30 seconds of the song Golden Earring 'Radar Love' this is starting to get us working with the cameras in a music video way looking at how to sequence each piece together and what camera angles and shots that would work for a performance video.
I have started my planning and created a story board to see how i would lay it out and gathered a band together.

Girl Put Your Record On By Corinne Bailey Rae

Girl put your record on by Corinne Bailey Rae 

I like this video by the way that it is all narrative yet performance from the singer herself, the scenery creates this narrative of not to worry and being free the camera shots represent this well as certain shots like the long angles give the mood of the song that its all happy and relaxed with a the sun gleaming through the trees.

When the tempo changes the shot changes to very still and mainly tracking her as she moves slowly yet the tempo starts up again then she begins to sun through the corn fields, the cross cutting to her on the bike shows a great transition because there in the same mood yet this could also work in a contrast of two moods.   

U2 At Galstonbury 2011

U2 has shown great camera work which will help a lot with my final piece, in the first 29 seconds there is a lot of shots like at the very start there is a establishing shot that you can see shows the whole experience of glastonbury this lets the audience at home be able to see and feel what is happening before the singer starts you can  definitely see how the camera starts to get low angles and close-up shots of the guitarists and the drummer to show them playing. As he starts to sing there are many close-ups of the singer and the framing is perfect as they have the mic right in the middle of the screen this helps you feel the atmosphere that the band is having. When the instrumental parts came on it would keep panning to the drummer or guitarists to show you what they where doing, the audience shots where very good the way that you can see the pole flags and you feel like you are there from the point of view from the camera seeing the singer peering through. when the tempo changed to become slower the started to add transitions that was distracting from the atmosphere effect but then pans down to the crowd and you can feel the way that the audience are reacting making you feel the same. When the singer comes out onto the platform you have a tracking shot of him and then a pan upwards and then a zoom out showed that the camera men where thinking about showing him and then showing the audience and a front shot of him, this is all to do with the audience as it follows from his point of view and into the crowd to our point  of view and at the very end a long shot to show that you are at glastonbury.