From the course: Foundations of Video: The Art of Editing
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Music video
Male: There are many different types of music videos, or as they're called in Europe, music clips. There are recorded performances. There are very straight ahead stories which unfold just like a fiction film would and there are abstract films which are visual poems. All of them, however, have one thing in common, they take the viewer on a journey from the beginning of the song to the end of the song. In this course we've been calling that a script. It's just that in this case, the script is the lyrics to the song. We've talked in previous movies about the value of music. How it is the strongest manipulator of our reactions in film. Music videos, of course, will follow that pattern. Remember that we said where music starts,stops or changes are the areas where music will have the most power on the audience. We'll see how music starts and stops in the music video ,Take My Love by Dominic Balli but once the music gets started, like most music videos it doesn't stop. So it will be the…
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