Ellie Goulding 'Lights' and 'Starry Night'

Ellie Goulding's music video 'lights' is a great example of a music video that mainly focuses on the artist but in an interesting way. For example there are a lot of close-up shots of Ellie's face. They have used a vast range of multi-coloured lights in this video which helps to engage the audience. By using the different lights illuminating her face creates a different and more interesting approach.

By changing to a short, blurry depth of field (like in the photo above) and making it so it will gradually coming into focus will keep the audience intrigued and add to the mystery of the music video.









We could use a range of shots including close-ups, mid-shots and long shots, we should also shoot from lots of different angles including looking up at the artist (like the angle used in the image above of Ellie Goulding). This would help to engage the audience.



By using multi-coloured lights or adding a filter when filming would also help create the mood of being sad but still feeling hopeful towards a better future with her boyfriend/partner. Although it would be easier to use a filter during filming we could however also add a colour filter on final cut afterwards.

This photo was taken from Ellie Goulding's music video 'Starry Night'

This would be a great effect that we could try out in our own music video.  If we were to do this we would have to film the artist singing in front of the green screen. We would add either a photo of the sky/lights or film a short shot of lights or the sky. We would then layer this with the main shot of the girl singing and then create two shots of her, but we would have to make them translucent to add to both sides of her.