This document discusses ideas for elements to include in a music video production, including artists to feature, settings for filming, common props associated with different music genres, stereotypical costumes, and the purpose of different camera shots. It mentions selecting artists like Beyoncé and Dolly Parton, and describes how settings can relate to the story being told, from a plain room to a festival stage or beach. Common props for genres like indie, rap, and pop are identified. Costume choices are described as signaling genre through styles for rap, rock, and gothic music. Shots are outlined as a way to show emotion with close-ups or multiple people with long shots.

1. Ideas for a music video
production
Nicole Melia

2. Artists
• I have selected these pictures of the artist
because the songs they produce are some of
my ideas for my final piece. It includes artists
such as Beyoncé, Dolly Parton, Calvin Harris
etc.

3. Artists

4. Settings
• A huge part of a music video is the setting this
could be from a plain room (Sia- Chandelier),
to on the stage at a festival (Ed Sheeren,
Hardwell etc.) or even on a beach (Nicki Minaj
– Starships) . The setting is telling us where its
based and can relate to a story they are trying
to tell us e.g.. Route 24 with My Love is filmed
in a night club and tells the story of a typical
night out in the club, without the setting it
wouldn’t make sense.

5. Settings

6. Props
• There are hundreds of props that could be
used in a music video and usually different
genres have stereotyped props that they will
include such as an indie genre song usually
includes a guitar, A rap song will include
money, A pop song will include a microphone
etc.

7. Props

8. Costumes
• Costume tells the audience a lot about the
genre for example in a rap song the costume
usually includes the main rapper in baggy
clothes with a lot of heavy gold necklaces and
rings and will most likely have a half naked girl
dancing in the background. For a Rock or a
Gothic genre it will include black clothes with
the odd few colours, they will have think
unusual makeup/face painting on and black
finger nails.

9. Costumes

10. Camera Shots
• Shots are an important part of the music
video they show you everything that is
happening. There are so many shots for so
many things, a extreme close up would mostly
be used to show emotion where as a long shot
would be used to show what everyone's
doing.