The Do's and Don't's of making a music video

Before presenting my three initial ideas my class and I received a talk from one of the media staff, named Luke, who told us what were good ideas for our music video and what we shouldn't do if we are to make a successful piece of work.

First of all, Luke said that we should, when talking about a narrative, always do it on the music and not make it up by our selves. For example if the song is about a party then he, basically, said to not do something like a dance performance in the forest. In other words he told us not to just film what we thought was cool and what we liked and found fun. Secondly he told us to not choose an actor/actress which is good looking and would be a good person to work with as they may not fit the part (to make the singer believable). Finally, he told us to make sure the song links to the music, but differently to the first two points. he stated that if the song was a slow and not upbeat we should show that in our video but if there was a fast paced song then we should make sure it is shown through the video (even without the audio).

We then spoke to Phil (my A2 Media studies teacher) and he said that it is always a good idea to do a narrative. He said to do this because the viewer will never know the outcome of the narrative (storyline of the video) until the end, gripping them to watch the whole video and keeping them interested throughout.