Research Blog: Music Video Conventions

The Box: By Roddy Richh

CAMS:

• Close up
• Low angle
• Medium Shot
• Medium Close up
• Tracking Shot
• Wide shot
• Tilt
• High Angle
• Three Shot
• Ariel Shot
• Dutch Angle
• Two Shot
• Over-Shoulder Shot
• Pan

EDITING

• Insert
• Cross-Cutting
• Jump cut
• Action Match

SOUND

• Diegetic Sound
• Non-diegetic sound
• Sound bridge
• Ambient Sound

CLAMPS

• Costume: (Causal clothes, basketball jersey, racecar outfit, theif outfit, army clothes)
• Lighting: 
• Acting: (Lip-syncing)
• Props: (Cars, basketball, poster, sunglasses, tables, boxes)
• Lighting: (Low dim lighting)
• Set: (Open driveway, gym, interior of vault, night view of city, broken warehouse, office, factory museum)

HUMBLE: By Kendrick Lamar

CAMS: 

• Long shot
• Low angle
• Medium shot
• Aerial shot
• Two shot
• Three shot
• Tracking shot

Wide shot

• Pan 
• High Angle
• Tilt
• Zoom
• Medium Shot
• Medium close up
• Close up

EDITING

• Jump cut
• Cross-cutting
• Insert

SOUND

• Non-diegetic sound
• Split screen
• Sound bridge

CLAMPS

• Props: (Money, face masks, golf clubs, table, chair, table, food, cars)
• Costume: (Hoodie, formal clothes, glasses hoodie)
• Set: (Hair salon, streets, gym, church, outdoors, house)
• Acting: (Lip-syncing)
• Makeup: (Models wearing lots of it)
• Lighting: (Dim lighting to bright lighting)

All My Life: By Lil Durk ft. J. Cole

CAMS

• Tracking shot
• Medium shot
• Medium Close up
• High angle
• Ariel shots
• Pan
• Tilt
• Establishing shot
• Low angle
• Two shot
• Three shot
• Dutch Angle
• Zoom
• Long shot
• Close up
• Wide shot
• Eye Level
• Medium long shot

EDITING

• Jump cut
• Insert
• Action match

SOUND

• Diegetic Sound 
• Non-Diegetic Sound
• Sound Bridges

CLAMPS: 

• Costume (Urban outfit, children's clothing, streetwear)
• Acting (Lip-syncing)
• Props: (Chain, chalk, water gun, ice cream truck, balloons, football, bicycles)
• Set: (House interior, front yard, neighborhood)