MUSIC VIDEO TECHNIQUE

BY LISA AFOGHO

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The video was shot in an urban setting, and it was done in a R&B Pop style of music. There where group dancing and the focus was mainly on a butterfly that gives people courage when they see it. The artist in the video are pretty ladies and a man who introduced the song in a rap form. There were cars in the video and a very big traffic. Which lead to the music and everyone started dancing and singing.

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• This is the live performance of the song ‘I’ll always love you’ by Whitney Houston. She performed with a live band and with no use of studio voice. With Live audiences as well.

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• This is a song call ‘ Move Your Feet’ done by Junior Senior.

• The song is about dancing to the beat of the song, that everyone should move together and be united. The song is also letting go of yourself and dance.

INTERPRETIVEHTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=2VJPBRBU-TM• This is a song called

‘Chandelier’ done by Sia.

• The video contains a miming dancing little girl. And the song artist is trying to make the audience feel and understand the song by the dancing and the way the little girl expresses herself on the video.

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• This is a song called ‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson.

• In the video there were monsters like werewolf's and zombies. The artist which is Michael Jackson was the werewolf in the beginning of the video which later came out as a movie in the video. Then later through the main video graves started opening and some group of zombies came out from the grave. When Michael Jackson was on the way home after watching the movie with his girlfriend in the video. And suddenly they became surrounded by zombies and Michael Jackson became one of the zombie and started dancing and chasing after the girl.

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• This song is an impressionist of a song called ‘style’ by Taylor Swift. The video contains lots of surreal footages and it consist of fake smoke, mirrors with eyes, lighting, trees and the beach. With a guy who was the actor that she’s singing about.

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• This is a parody of the song “I Knew you were Trouble” by Taylor Swift. In this parody the impersonator talked about all Taylor swift’s ex boyfriends that broke up with her because they think she is crazy. And there were impersonators of her ex boyfriends as well. Running away from her.

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• This is a song called ‘ That’s the way it is’ done by Celine Dion.

• The video contains loads of TV, the artist and loads of people. In the video the people were watching the artist sing on TV. The song didn’t really illustrated what the artist is saying on the lyric, because they’re expecting the audience to listen to the lyrics and work out what the artist is singing about.

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• This is a song called ‘Confident ‘ done by Demi Lovato.

• The video was cut to shot according to the beat and the video contains violence and action. There were guns, cars, prison, bikes, bodyguards, good guys and bad guys. Definitely the good guys which was Demi Lovato and Michelle Rodriguez took down the bad guys and the bad guys got arrested.

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• This is a song call ‘Teenage love affair’ by Alicia Keys.

• The video contains some group of miming dancers and some lip sync from Alicia Keys and some of her friends on the video. There were some gathering of youths that are ready to riot and the leader of the riot team saw a girl which was Alicia keys and then he fell in love with her. And that is how they both got into the teenage love affair.