Reflection 1

Today we had our first media lesson of the A2 course whereby, we create, edit, and perform in our assigned music videos. I decided to look at some music videos from the pop genre, which I prefer the most, to gain some understanding as to whether narrative or performance is more important as I don't usually watch music videos. 

I looked at Jason Derulo's 'Want you to want me' video where the narrative outweighed the performance however there was still an element of performance throughout. It also made me realise how many cuts and shot there are in a music video, especially in the first 30 seconds. 

I also looked at Ariana Grande's 'One more time' video where there is barely any performance however, the narrative doesn't match the lyrics, therefore there is no relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, making them totally contradict each other. 

I'm interested in looking at more music videos and broadening my musical taste to genre's I wouldn't usually listen to.