Use of Close-ups in Music Videos

Although we are planning to incorporate a narrative within our music video, it will be just a part as we want to focus the video onto the artists singing as well as acting. We want to include lots of different angles of close-ups and create a series of short cuts to engage the audience and keep their attention. This is shown in Adele's music video 'Rolling in the Deep'.



Also in this video there are a lot of close-ups of glasses which breaks up the video and appears more interesting towards the audience. This could be a possible idea in our own video when the artist is setting the table as it creates a different look in the video.

In Adele's music video 'Rolling in the Deep' Adele has the main focus being that it is her song. We as the audience are focused onto her by the use of close-ups. However, there is also a range of long shots and mid shots. We must use a range of close-ups, mid-shots and long shots with a range of different angles. However we must think of something to help break this to keep the audience engage although the main focus will be on the artist.