Myleene Klass

I looked at Myleene Klass's promotional video for her new album. This is a highly professional video and will particularly help me in the stages of editing.


This is a really striking opening shot of Myleene as it is not a position we would expect to see as she has her back to us and is poised over the piano. The camera then introduces Myleene's face by an upwards crane shot.

Myleene's video also includes shots of her alone, which inspired me to do the same.

I noticed how the camera shots and angles of Mylenne playing the piano vary as not to appear repetitive, so I will need to make sure there are a variety of individual piano shots in my own video.







The clever lighting has a dramatic effect as viewers. Often in this video, bright light shines through the window often obscuring our view of Myleene for a split second. I personally love this effect and will approach similar lighting in a few of my shots (long shot of piano in the main school hall, and the medium shot). I tried to copy the lighting effect by using fade to white transitions during my video.

I particularly love the setting of the old house with the white floorboards and doors and partly furbished walls. It really suits the mood of the music.

This shot starts exactly on the first beat of the bar, i.e in time with the music. I think this is needed in some parts of a music video to emphasise the rhythms of the music. I too will use this idea in my music video.

I really liked the camera angle here and used one similar in my music video. I love the strong lighting to make the colour balance/contrast of the shot appear uneven.

This is a type of video effect used to create a new visual way of seeing a camera shot. In this shot, the video effect is called 'cyanotype'. I used a number of video effects available on iMovie called 'dream', 'beach bypass'.

Hurt - Johnny Cash (media student video)

This video is by an A-level media student from the U.S and is put together extremely well. When researching some videos at this point I needed inspiration for a story - this is perfect! I am going to tell a story of two people in love.

I loved this first opening shot. The lighting is very clever where the light shines on the boy. I need to think about use of lighting carefully in the indoor scenes but not so much in the outdoor scenes.



I need to include lots of shots of typical 'love' gestures. This one is really cute. The camera starts at their foot and slowly pans up to their faces.



This low angled shot is very effective especially how it is composed with the cable lines behind them. I need to think about which camera positions I could use effectively in my own video.





Perhaps I could take a shot similar to the one below, and then continue it in a moving sequence. That could be quite interesting.



I thought the slow pan upwards to the sky at the end was a very clever ending. I may well use this in my video.

The Piano

The Piano was directed and written by Jane Campion and was distributed in 1993. All of the music heard during the film draws particularly on the piano and was composed by the American minimalist composer Michael Nyman.

The following extracts from the film gave me lots of ideas for shots and linking scenes together.

In the few couple of shots I loved the way the video starts with a long shot of a scene of the beach and introduces the woman playing the piano after this is established with a medium paced pan angled from behind her.



I loved the shadow effect used here too. I will need to find out how to do this in the editing stage as I really want to use this effect.



This high angled shot is very striking with a beautiful dress spread out on the floor with clever lighting.



An editing effect in this video shows the woman closing her eyes and quick shots of black and white images. We can guess that these are her memories or flashbacks she is having. This is a very clever technique that would interest the viewer and is appropriate for my music video.



The clip includes closeups and extreme close ups to identify the emotion of the woman as shown below. I also loved the extreme close up of the woman fingers at the very end.








Double tracking

I realized while watching clips from The Piano that the music is pre-recorded before adding it to the film in the editing stage. I have also chosen to do this as it will make the editing a lot easier to play around with and I can just mime on the piano as you will not see me playing all the time.

The follow shots are from 'The Scent of Love'.

This particularly interesting shot of the piano hammers caught my eye. It would be a useful shot to fill up time.



I will be sure to include long shots of a landscape like this one, perhaps including me walking in the distance too.



I really like this clever shot of the womans feet with the sea water swirling around them. I will need to think up a few effective shots like these to make my video interesting and have variety.