Analysis of Low Budget Music Videos

Low Budget Music Videos

Tuning

Mise-en-Scène	Cinematography	Editing	Performance
- natural, high key lighting that matches the tone of the music. - setting in a car, a field and a forest – telling a story. - policemen and forensic officers, images emphasising the implication within the lyrics.	- tracking/gliding movement, reinforces the tone of the music. COMPOSITION two people in the foreground, vast background - out of focus, dreamlike – fits with lighting and camera movement.	- non-linear storytelling, we see police discovering a hair band followed by a ginger-haired woman throwing the hair band away in slow motion - black out at the end, finality. - play with diegetic/non-diegetic sound – man lip-syncs words which appear through background - sped-up image of road kill - cutaways of scenery.	- sad, mourning. A couple hugging.

Hifana

Mise-en-Scène	Cinematography	Editing	Performance
- kitchen, low key lighting - restaurant, dark, black background - low budget costumes: bad wigs, kitchen overalls etc.	- stationary - zoom (variations: crash zoom etc), fits the genre - poor quality cameras	- actions match the beat of the music. - Visual Effects: speed up cooking, 5*s graphic, vegetable explosion - fast motion	- comedic

LOW BUDGET TECHNIQUES:

- use of cut away can help create a mood in step with the mood of the music.

- comedic/inventive performance distract attention from poor camera quality

- cheap props like balloons, simplistic locations can be made to seem more interesting.

- change clothes, makes the video seem more expensive and implies the artist is rich because they can afford lots of new clothes

- interesting angles and hand-held camera is a lot more visually aesthetic compared static camera angles.