Our Favourite Music Videos

Our top 4 favourite music videos and why

Macklemore and Sam Lewis- Same Love

One of our favourite music videos to watch was “Same Love” by Macklemore and Sam Lewis. I liked this video because it was a bit different to videos I have previously seen and had a specific message which was being shown in the media at the time it was released. It was about gay marriage and the rights to allow them to do this. The video was in support of this and carried a real meaning with importance.

The music video was showing the life of a male who was going through his life of being gay. It showed the struggles homosexual people sometimes have and what the current media do to stereotype them. I liked that the video made you think about it and realise that it’s a real issue and you should be in support.

I also liked how as an audience it drew you in to watch it and you understood it. I think the music video allowed you to understand the lyrics more clearly therefore interpret the song better so you understood the meaning.

This video has given us another option of how we could make our music video because we could go the way of using a real meaning within our music video when we create it.

Lily Allen – Alfie

I have chosen this music video because I like the way that the music lyrics relate to the visuals that are on screen. This I believe is a good way to connect to the audience and make them fully understand the story that is being told. I believe that we should add in footage like this that then relate to the lyrics that are being sung throughout the music video. We will be able to do this by fully analysing our lyrics, finding out what shots would work and in the editing stage we would link up the images to the part of the song that they relate to.

Daniel Powter - Bad Day

This music video I have picked out as one of my all-time favourites, it has a strong narrative which really draws you in. This narrative is very clear and easy to pick up, this allows it to target a wider audience which I really like. The shots they use throughout are very effective and an example of one I really like is when the women is leaving the house it is repeated three times to show how time is moving on. Also the use of split screen shots throughout allow you to see the narrative even clearer, two people living similar lives then they finally come together at the end of the video.

This we feel could be a good option for style of video to go by as it has some great shots for example the split screens, if we chose a similar genre of music this music video could be something to compare ours to.

Snow Patrol- Chasing Cars

One of our favourite music video is Snow Patrol’s song ‘Chasing Cars’. We like this because it has a great link between the lyrics of the song and what is presented in the music video – showing a great physical example of Goodwin’s theory of the relationship between lyrics and videos. It also has a thought provoking narrative in the music video which represents what the song is about and why the artists, the members of Snow Patrol, might have written it. Looking at this, I feel this is something we could use when creating our own music video as, when dealing with songs that have meaning, presenting the lyrics visually well will create a great narrative on its own.

By doing this as a group we will each then have a wider knowledge of music videos. From having a wider knowledge we will then be able to all have an input into the creation of our music video to then make the creation of the final product look more professional/

By Lewis Bulmer, Josh Lawrence, Alastair Morrison and George Harvey.