Bruno Mars ' Just the way You are' Music Analysis

The picture you see on the left is my music analysis. I had to analyze a music video of my choice and i had to comment on a variety of different things such as The lyrics of the song, was it a narrative song?, was there any intertextual reference, what effects were used, what types of camera shots were used, what did the costumes do to show the image of the singer. I chose to analyze Bruno Mars's song 'Just the way you are' because it has a similar beat to my song, it uses the same instrument and by analyzing this video, it helped me think of what i could put in my video. I took screen shots of the video on YouTube to give me some evidence of what i found in the video. For example the picture you see in the middle of the page which is the drum is an example of an effect that is used in the video. At the time of the music, a drum is playing in the background and the drum is animated to look like he is actually playing the drum and it really makes the video look quite effective. It is a good idea to analyze another music video because by looking at another video, you ca really understand what makes a music video, what to do and what not to do.

Animatics Video

This is my animatics video. I filmed this video to see how my video would look. By watching this video, i could see the outline of my video and see what it would look like and see if the video flowed smoothly. Although, it was not very good drawing, it still helps to give me a rough idea of what the final film will turn out like. I think this animatics timeline was a good idea, as i really think it helped me as if need be i could change bits before i started filming if i didn't like the outcome.

Anamatronics timeline

hese pictures you see are of my anamatronic storyboard. We got A3 pieces of paper and used post-stick notes to draw on the image we was going to use for the certain time. We drew the image and then underneath, we made notes of what was happening in the scene, what camera angles/shots we would use, any special effects we would use and the time length of how long the scene would be. This was very time consuming as you had to make sure everything was included on the timeline. If a time slot was missed out, it would show in the gaps. We then videoed out storyboard timeline and we did this so that we could upload the recording to Adobe Premiere Pro and attach the song to pictures, so we could see what our video would look like. By making this short anamantronic video, we could then see how good or how boring our video would be and see if there was anything that we could do to improve our video. I think this really helped, so we get a rough outline of how good our video will actually be when we have finally filmed it and edited it.