Richmix

 

These are images from Richmix, a media trip that went on to see a pre production and music video break down. The visit was organised to enable us to get an overview of how to create a music video, we also looked at the codes and conventions of a music video. They discussed many elements of generic music videos, they suggested that as a rule of thumb not to use comedy within music videos. However, one of the speakers, the head examiner for Media Studies, Andrew Graham, said that you can use parody. The example he used was a past students work who had used the code and conventions of a stereotypical boy band video, e.g.   West Life or Take That and had parodied them. 

Another aspect of the trip was a talk with a music video director, Jake Wynne, who had directed videos for the Stereophonics. He gave us an insight into the making of a music video, which we would be making later on in the day, for the song 'Leg Me Entertain You' by Robbie Williams. The pictures above were taken during the music video session. We were put into three different groups and each group performed for the same video in different ways. This meant that there was a lot of footage to play with to make a different and interesting music video.