Post on 27-Jul-2015
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(1964) The music video for the Beatles song ‘And I love her’ begins with a close up of a screen, demonstrating the technologies used. This
would have been seen as a very impressive and ‘modern’ start to a music video.
(2012) Meanwhile, the music video for One Direction’s song
‘Kiss You’ begins with a film countdown on screen. This
links back to older videos and gives a sense of time to the
video.
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The Beatles are then portrayed using a wide shot, to demonstrate their instruments and the ‘modern’ props
in the background. The layout is kept simple and the attention is primarily on the music.
One Direction are also portrayed in this way, but due to their lack of
instruments, dance moves are put in place, with the aid of backing
dancers. This could demonstrate a shift over time in the importance of
the physical music.
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Here, each band member has a number of frames to themselves as a way of conveying their
personalities to the audience, showing them not just as a band, but as individuals also.
However, this is not the case in this music video as atleast two of the band
members are always present in the background. This is an interesting take
on how we view members of a band in the modern day.
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An interesting technique used in both of the music videos, is the
zoom out of the music video set to show all of the equipment and set
up as it looks in real life.
The way that we see this in both videos from such different
periods of time (nearly 40 years apart) clearly shows that music videos from today do still draw
inspiration from older and more classic music videos.
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