Music Video Commentary Research

We watched several commentaries in research of our own commentary. These two videos we felt were the most useful:

"SO GOODBYE" MUSIC VIDEO COMMENTARY

At the beginning of the video the two main actors, and directors are shown sitting in a room with a piano in the background. This setting shows that the people making the music video have a lot of money because of the actual piano - it emulates richness.

The commentators are shown to be all together throughout the video. This works in the sense that they are very much coming up with things on the spot and talking to each other about it. The only problem with this set up is that they didn’t go into that much detail because they only had time to discuss one or two things.

We really like the way that they played the music video and then had the square box in the screen showing them talking. The only problem with this in comparison to what we have to create is that we have to answer specific questions which means playing our over four minute video would make keeping on track when answering all four questions very difficult.

THE DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY

This isn’t technically a music video commentary in the sense that it doesn’t specifically look at one video instead it is a commentary of music videos in general. The video does meanwhile show the effect of having everyone separated, with their own specific locations and talking about their own specific subject. This effect we really liked, it made the video more interesting and engaging, with the constant swopping in of different people making the dialogue disjointed so that you only get brief snippets- this really works.