FOSMV: Shot types and Sound

Shot types

Commonly in Synthpop music videos, the shots are medium shots of the character's shoulder and face as shown in modern Synthpop music videos such as Royal's 'Lorde' and is also present in 80s Synthpop music videos such as Kavinsky's 'Protovision'. There are also wider shots used in both modern and 80s style Synthpop music videos. Between these two types of Synthpop music videos, there appears to be a specific focus on each character in the shots with little focus taken away from the characters. This doesn't always seem the case in more general music videso such as Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" where there are shots of the surroundings and environment are shown and take the focus away from the characters which differs from Synthpop music videos.
In my project, I will stick to the shot types used by Synthpop music videos by keeping the shots focused on a character in each shot with most shots being variances of medium shots but also use some wider shots.

Sound

In terms of sound use in Synthpop music videos, there is the use of Synthesizers. This gives a warped sound to the voice of the singer. This is most apparent in Kavisnky's 'Odd Look' (shown in the audio in the video clip below) in the following lyrics: "You are the snake, get around me. And it came with rain". With this example, the unique sound of the singer's voice can be distinctively heard and appears to begin when the men begin to interact with the waitress in the narrative.

Similar sounds of singer's voices can be heard in Synthpop music videos such as Caravan Palace's ' Lone Digger'. In this, the singer builds up as the cats are entering the club and then reaches a peak when the actually enter the club itself. The changes are variances in the sound allow for a change in narrative just is the case with 'Odd Look'. Here, I can see that sound signifiers are often used when certain things like points in the narrative begin.

In my project, I am using the song Nightcall. This song does not have many variances in terms of tempo and volume apart from an extremely distinctive change between the female and male singer. At this point when the change between the singer begins, I plan to change the imagery just as other Synthpop music videos do. I also plan to change shots at the beginning of lyrics to keep the video in time with the singer. This conforms to other Synthpop music videos that use points in the song for a change in the images of the music video itself.