Low Budget ideas

The two videos which i watched who had a low budget to create their music video, similar to ours within the two music videos A-Ha and The Fix Just Got Paid you can see how they made their low budget work to create an effective music video.

For example in both music videos you can see that they provided the costumes for themselves and they were wearing suitable clothing  that fitted the genre. Clearly showing that they have done research into it. For example in the A-Ha music video they were wearing dark clothing and gothic make up as the soundtrack had an eerie feel to it and was fast paced, so the editing was done on point to the beat of the music. Furthermore in the second music video i watched The fixed  - Just got paid also used good costume choice. As it relates to what the video is about (earning money) and they are all well dressed in suits. There for when making my music video im going to stay to stereotypical wear for the chosen genre

Here you can see the fix - Just got paid costumes as you can see they have is stereotypical
boy band costume  

In the Ah-ha music video you cant really see the costumes clearly however you can tell
that they are dark colours to match the genre of music.

 

The camera work is important when you are making a low budget music video you have to make sure its in focus and that you have a variety of angles to make the music video interesting, what i noticed in these low budget music videos they both use lighting to their advantage, this is part of mis-en-scene however it make the video more effective, for example at the begining of the boy bands music video you have four lights appear to turn on, one after the other. I think this looks really effective and would consider including something along them lines into my music video. However when using the camera you have to make sure that you have a steady hand if doing a hand held shot to make the music video  more interesting.

What i can learn from these music videos is infact that the lip syncing and editing have to be precise also that I can use lighting to my advantage to make a much more creative music video, because with lighting you can use shadows, especially if you chose to do a rock genre shadows would be a good feature.