Music Video: Camerawork

We used a variety of different shots within our music video.

Long Shot:

The long shots in the video allow us to show the audience both our main character, Hayley, and her surroundings. If we had used a long shot at the beginning of our music video to introduce the characters or setting, it would be called an establishing shot.
Long shots are also often referred to as a full or wide shot, which typically show the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surrounding.

Medium Shots:

Hayley playing guitar


Using the mid-shots allowed us to get closer to Hayley than a long shot in order to see her facial expressions, but still be able to see her body language.
The line between long and medium shots and medium and close-ups is often unclear, though it is more commonly known that a shot framed from the waist up is a medium shot.

Close-Up:



Close-up’s allowed us to focus the audience’s attention solely on Hayley’s character and not the background.
Close-up’s are often used as cutaways from a more distant shot to show detail, such as intricate activity with someone’s hands. They are often used as a way of distinguishing main characters, as they are often given a number of close-ups to indicate their importance.

Steady shot

This image shows a steady shot, we were able to get this shot by using the tripod.