Sylvia Ella Kesington

Back when i went to The Farm Group, I met an aspiring singer Sylvia Ella Kesington and so went and viewed her sound cloud.
She writes her own songs, about things that have happened in her life.

Whilst on her soundcloud some of her songs really interested me, and I could already imagine a music video being shot for it.

I have Facebook Messaged her, and shall wait for the reply; but just incase she does allow me to use one of her songs, I have started planning ideas. 

LETTER-
 https://soundcloud.com/sylvia-ellakesington/letter

This was the 2nd song of hers I actually listened to, but it stood out to me from the beginning. Whilst listening to the song carefully and the lyrics, I think that a Narrative music video will suit this song best, especially because from the title it connotes that the song has a meaning behind it. Especially where lyrics like 'You're in the shadows, you're in the rain' where the actress could be walking in the rain, looking back on the past written letters.

Possible Locations-

-Street full with cars, walking through them in the rain

-A flower filled garden/park with sunshine 

-Bedroom surrounded by screwed up paper | Looking through old pictures 

A young female girl actress will be playing the artist whose point of the song is actually from. 

Costume- Plain skater dress, and pumps.  

Genre- Acoustic 

Props- Letters and pictures 

Idea- 

It could start off with the actress in her bedroom, writing a letter, with clustered screwed up letters around her. 

Personal qualities- Good with camera work, and developing ideas.

MISS YOU ALREADY 

https://soundcloud.com/sylvia-ellakesington/miss-you-already

I liked the actual lyrics of this song, I don't know why, but they stuck out to me. I can see a concept with narrative music video behind it, because the lyrics are really strong and so could be easy to portray. 

One of the main settings I think will go well with this could be a girls bedroom, with pictures of the couple scattered everywhere; however this could be boring, so the girl could be sitting along a river, reminiscing through a box we first see her bring out from underneath her bed.

The stereotypical representation would be a young girl, missing her true love. This can be seen as stereotypical because  it is usually the women who take longer to get over relationships. 

Types of Music Videos

Performance- 
This music video usually involves the band/artist performing either live or just within the music video. This is usually the case if the budget of the music video is low, despite saying this certain artists prefer to perform splashing the cash on the settings and costumes.
Performance styled music videos can usually be seen in the pop genre.

One Direction- Little Things



Lumineers- Ho Hey



Beyonce- Run The World



Narrative-
Narrative music videos usually use footage which attempts to tell a story. It will either involve actors or the actual artist. The story is sometimes linked to the lyrical content of the song, but this isn't the case for many.

Drake- Find Your Love



Justin Timberlake- Mirrors


J Cole- Power Trip



^This can be seen as an example where the lyrical content does not link with the visual content.

Concept-
This is based around a single idea, whether it makes sense with the lyrics of a song or not. It tends to be usually unusual in a particular editing or filming technique. It may also include controversial or political story lines.

Miley Cyrus- We Cant Stop (This can ALSO be a performance music video)


Kanye West- Mercy

Music Videos

Music Videos by Rafia Naveed

This mind map shows why music videos are created from my perspective. After my research on certain artists  i came up with the ones in red.

Taylor Swift - Fifteen PARODY

Original:




Our Parody:

MIA Research Task

MIA from Rafia_

McFly- Love Is Easy Analysis

McFly's genre of music can be been as pop, and most of the times, the music videos behind songs have a narrative. Love Is Easy is visiting 'Memory Lane' throughout this video, which fits in very well with the album it is apart of.

This first screen shot shows one of the narratives behind this song, which is that the band may love performing so much on stage, that they have based the whole video around it, connoting that they are pretending
to be in a concert performing to thousands of fans.




This extreme close up shot is dedicated to the target audience for this band, being girls in general.

This is a representation of both people of who enjoy this band and of events that have taken place. Due to this visiting memory lane, one of the bans biggest achievement was winning a Brit Award, which for those audience members who follow what the band gets up to will understand; in contrast to someone watching this video for the first time, not knowing what the award wad for.

Once again, fans are involved with this video, showing the closeness between the band and the fans enjoying there music. This shot shows a variety of age group members singing along to their music.

This shot clearly shows the props used within this music video, which helps contribute to the cost.

This shows the boys having fun, getting their personalities across. Not only this, but it too gets the lyrics across very easily.







^I actually found it difficult to analyse a music video.