As part of my research stage i have looked at Sia' new music video for 'The Greatest', it is dedicated the victims of the pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June. There were a total of 49 dancers in this video to represent the 49 lives lost that evening. This music is a very powerful and meaningful video.
The video starts of with Maddie Ziegler crying and whipping paint down her face, this could represent war paint as though she is going into battle. The way that they have used a medium close up and then slowly zoomed in really brings out the emotions in Maddies face. Then the clip cuts to little children lying on the floor which represents all the people that had died in the shooting. The way that they have used low key lighting and all the colour has been taken out of the shot shows how cynical the mass shooting was. I really like the way that they have used the low key lighting and this is what i want to use for my music video to create a dark atmosphere.
As the clip goes on it cuts to a long shot image of the children trapped in a cellar, this could represent that there was no escape from the shooting showing that they were trapped. I like the way that they have a main character(Maddie Ziegler) and they are all looking at her. Then all the characters come to life all following the footsteps of Maddie Ziegler.
As they break out from the cellar they all start dancing in unison which is very powerful because they were all in their together. Its very theatrical dancing with lots of big facial expressions, for my music video i want to take this idea and want to use in terms of their being two groups of dancers one group dark and the other light trying to help the main character.
I really like the idea of all the dancers surrounding the main character and then the main character is spinning. I want to use this in my video to signify the main character spiralling out of control.
This image shows the blood splattered on the wall behind which shows that people have died, i think in my music video i want to take the idea of that the main character had a dramatic medium close up and makes some very theatrical facial expressions like they do in Sia' music video.
Furthermore i really want to play with the lighting when i make my music video and very much like the idea of the red and the free/blue like in these two shots. i think that it makes it more theatrical which is what I'm going for.
As they have done in this music video started with the single character and ending with the single character crying thats how i want to start and end mine. I think that this makes it more powerful and this will help show that my video is of a nightmare, which is all in the brain.
Overall Sia' music video is very effective it gets the message across, i want to take some ideas from this in order to create mine. I think that the idea for Sia' video is very emotional and the shots and facial expression throughout the videos really reflect that it was a tragic event.
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