Unit 18 - Cinematography

In this post, I will discuss and highlight how we have created meaning through lighting and camera settings. We made sure that thought the filming of our music video, we manufactured the camera settings to fit the genre of our video. When recording our footage, we used various camera techniques, settings and shot types to create meaning that we could use to successfully create a music video. For example, in terms of lighting, we needed to create a monotone, neutral lighting style to fit in with the style of the music video, which is a dark EDM rock style video.  This means that we decided to use the natural lighting of the sky on the day of shooting. We chose a day that had a grey toned overcast sky which was bright enough to film in, this provided a monotone lighting style that we could work with well and that was suitable to the style of the music and video.  This is how the lighting style ended up looking, with the overcast sky and the digital exposure manipulation, the sho...

For our music video, we made sure to follow the main codes and conventions for music videos of the EDM genre and more specifically The Prodigy's genre. Our video will use similar shots to The Prodigy's other music videos, which is a darker, fast paced style with expressionistic action. To ensure that we knew the conventions of our style of music videos, we used the original Firestarter music video by The Prodigy, as well as various other example of EDM music videos that we could find on YouTube. Location/Mise-en-scene -  In order to stick to the conventions of this style of music video, we decided that filming outside in a forest-type area was a good idea, as it was winter time when we recorded meaning that the sky was naturally darker. However, because of this we needed to ensure that the camera settings were correct to fit in with the lighting, this means adjusting the aperture and iso to allow the camera to capture more light whilst also not overexposing the footage. Lightin...