Video Ideas

In Rihanna's new video Only Girl (In The World) we have noticed that she has used some particular good editing techniques that we wanted to include in our video.

Our group had the idea that at the start of our video as their are seventeen beats before the lyrics begin, we would have seventeen quick shots of the couple in our video, showing them in love. We decided to only take shots of parts of their body for example, their hands holding together, their feet entangled together and shadows of the couple cuddling, therefore the audience can see that the could are in love through their body language. In Rihanna's video below at 2.49 until about 2.58 we see an example of quick shots following the beat of the music, which relates to the type of editing and shots we want to use in out music video. Also, after watching Rihanna's video I liked how even though there were quick shots flashing in time with the beat, I really liked how there is a moving shot in the background which keeps running. This gave me the idea that we could still include the seventeen shots but by about the tenth shot start having a moving shot or film of the girl in her bedroom as this is where we want the girl to be when she starts lip syncing the lyrics. Her therefore there wont be a jump from these quick shots straight into the actual moving film.



I think that by having these seventeen shots it really introduces to the audience the relationship between the couple and shows that they are in love. Also, it allows us to show a variety of different editing techniques.