To prepare us for the shooting and editing of our final A2 Music video, we were set the task of filming

and editing Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. Mr Dunford set the task was to create the first 30 seconds of the music video and to incorporate all of the camerawork and editing rules we had previously learnt about in our media lesson. Camerawork Rules we incorporated: 1) Movement the camera must move, helping to convey the energy of the song and also to keep the video entertaining. As the song Pretty Woman is upbeat and has a positive energy we wanted to convey this through the movement of our shots especially during the chorus and the build up to the chorus. As our music video for Pretty Woman consisted of a subtle narrative and also the performance aspect to the video, including a band playing the drums, a guitarist and a main singer. For the chorus we shot the band playing the instruments and singing, the camera shots included movement throughout as this has the most prominent beats and it added more effect for the performance and a sense of involvement for the audience. This shot for example is made up of walking around the different band members and filming them through close up shots and long to convey a sense of performance.

This shot is taken from the opening of the music video. The right and left side of the screen shows a girl and boy walking, both of which were shot whilst the camera was moving and following their steps.

2) Mid shots and close ups should be 75% of the music video when we filmed Pretty Woman we made sure we complied thoroughly with this camerawork rule and we filmed many close ups and mid shots of both the boy and girl during the narrative of our music video and also many during the singer and bands performance of the song. We believe that close ups and mid shots are very important in music videos to create a sense of involvement and for the audience to feel a part of the action and make it a more personal viewing for the audience. By filming close ups and extreme close ups, this helped us convey the narrative and storyline of our music video. As the boy and the girl are on their phones they are not looking at their surroundings so therefore when they bump into each other they are very shocked. The use of extreme close ups of both of the characters on their phones conveys this and also the long/mid shot of the two bumping into each other shows the surprisement.
This shot shows the girl on the left on her phone and the boy on the right on his phone. This extreme close up brings significant attention to the use of the phone and shows it will have great importance later on in the music video. This shot shows a mid shot of the boy and girl walking again emphasizing the use of their phones. Also, the drummer in the middle of the screen blends the narrative and performance of the music video.

This mid shot shows all the band members the singer in the middle, the drummer on the right and the guitarist on the left. As the camera is quite close to the singers face, the audience feels deeply involved within the music video.

3) Focuses on the artist for 75% and other for 25% - Throughout our music video to Pretty Woman we concentrated the music video on the artist for slightly over the 75% as he was involved within the narrative and the performance side. These shots consisted of close ups, mid shots and long shots of him walking at the beginning and performing during the chorus. The other 25% of the music video consisted of shots such as the extreme close up of the boy and girls hands with their phones.
Shots such as these were shown numerous amount of time throughout the chorus of Pretty Woman the performance aspect of our music video.

Editing Rules we incorporated: 1) Editing must be to the beat At the beginning of Pretty Woman there are several dynamic and prominent beats, we believed this would be very effective if we changed the shot on each of these beats. Throughout the course of the music video we tried to the best of our ability to edit to the beat. 2) Match on action and match cuts We used match on action several times throughout our music video, including, the mid shot to the close up of the boy and girl using their phones at the beginning of the music video. Also, when we showed the band members playing their instruments and then the extreme close ups of their hands playing the instruments conveying extreme detail and involvement.

The shot shows a mid of the boy and girl holding and looking at their phones then the following shot shows a close up of them.