Essential Ingredients Of A Successful Music Video

Music videos are a massive influence on the music industry, promoting a artists music and look. Music videos sometimes throw you into a pool of amazement when others sometimes bore you to death. Big and successful videos are the ones that you want to watch over and over again and you tell all your friends about. So what are the Essential Ingredients Of  A Successful Music Video?

Performance
The performance of the artist in there music video is the most important ingredient to a successful music video. They must get involved in the  music and the theme of the video, and act to that camera as they would on stage. The performance wows the audience as they idolise the artist even more, watching them dance and sing starting into the camera with great facial expressions give them a very good vibe. The biggest artists look amazing behind the camera and in there videos they give a spectacular performance that makes the video so much more exciting and pleasing for the audience. Lets face it if you started watching a video with the artist just standing there with blank facial expressions and as stiff as a stick you would turn the channel over.

Overall Look
The overall look of the artist adds even more fire and excitement to a music video making them look glamorised and cool draws the audience in and amazes them.

Special Effects
Special effects add to the wow factor of a music video as they make it much more exciting. They can have a huge impact on the video and make the artist seem like a superhero or a astronaut, they give such a cool effect on the video the audience are drawn in massively.

Prelimary Summer Music Video Project Evaluation

We made a taster music video in 4 weeks to get a idea of what we will be doing in the further year.
This is myself and Chloe's  music video that we made.
I enjoyed making the music video and it was good to try out some techniques used when making music videos. We have now learned how to use a green screen and how to use it effectively. I have learnt that when you use a green screen you must make sure that  there is no creases in it as when you add back ground they will stand out (what happened in our video)
I think the editing went well and the look that i gave to my character. I also think that the multi colour screen at the end was a success and looks really good.
When we make our final video we will definitely use a green screen as it can be very effective and now that we know how to colour key on Adobe Premier using it will be a piece of cake.

Beyonce - Girls

This music video is really good and really coo.. The way that they have built up the M.E.S is very well done. The acting is also very precise.

David Guetta FT Sia - Titanium

I like this music video because of the story it creates. I think the video matches the mood of the song and it also is interesting. We do not know the reason why the child is being hunted down and that is why we carry on watching it.

Breach - Jack

 I like this video because it is quirky and interesting. It is really strange but at the same time when watching you are really intrigued to watching the whole video.  

Rudimental - Waiting All Night

This is buy far my favourite music video purely because of the story and the feel good factor at the end. The video brings happiness at the end witch is really nice. The video is like a little story and you want to carry on watching to see how it ends and if he ends up riding his bike again.

Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow

I like this music video because of the use of effects and colour. It is exciting and fun. It also matches the beat if the track as shots change to the beat. The use of laser light effects is very cool.

Macklemore - Cant Hold Us

The reason why i like this video is because of the unique locations used. Also i think the video is exciting and qwerky.I think the contrast of themes is also interesting. The track is also very good so it makes the video match. The video is fun.

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (EXPLICIT)

I like this video as it is really fun and enjoyable. As a male i enjoy the naked females dancing around. I also think the things all of the girls do are amusing.

Ed Sheeran - A Team

The reason why i like this music video is simply because of the story it tells. We are shown this girl who the song relates to and shown her average day in life. The story and the song together are quite emotional and powerful. Really like the effect when everything is fast forwarded except the girl as he sits begging, this really does impact how she must be feeling.

Naughty Boy - Lalala

This music video is really strange but at the same time intresting. Following the little boys life is intresting as you want to know what happens to him. I like this video as it is wierd involving the wierd men but at the same time intresting because the little boy is leading them to somewhere and you want to know where.

Will.i.am - Bang

What i like about this music video is the black and white. Its quite intresting as will.i.am is known for his love for effects and electronic vocie effects. It comes across really cool considering there is a black and white theme with a modern upbeat track. You want to keep watching as you wonder if the videos going to become modern as the music does.