Camera (Unit 1)

Music Video: Ed Sheeran – Traktor

Artist: The original artist is Wretch 32 but it was covered by Ed Sheeran and that’s why I chosen to make this music video because it can reflect to everyone.

Director: Adrian Hoxhaj.

Camera shots are very essential to a music video because they can allow a person to build their own ideas of what the music video is about. In songs that have the same style as mine, the director would use a lot of different camera shots because they allow the audience to create their own ideas about this music video. The main shot this music video contains is medium shot, this is because medium shots can show the real aspect of music videos, for example within Rizzle Kicks “When I was a youngster”, the audience see a lot of medium shots used, this allowed the audience to understand the scenes.

Long shots were also used to show the artist and the guitar player in some scenes.

Medium shots were used essential to show the artist singing and his emotions throughout the music video.

Close up were used to allow the audience to see and understand the artist’s facial expressions, this would allow the audience to feel closer to the artist.

The reason I’ve chosen these specific camera shot is because they all have an important value to my music video, they all allow the audience to see the artist’s emotions and facial expression. I believe this music video reflects a message from the artist because it’s a slow emotional song, this would allow the song to speak out to my target audience and build a relationship with them. Every camera shot reflects the narrative of my song and also all the camera shots show a different aspect of this music video. Also i believe that these camera shots will help my audience to build a relationship with my artist and this is something that other successful music videos do and this is something that i would like to achieve too.