music video inspiration task

Our krypton Son's music videos of catalonian love song and sunlight in the ashes are very simple yet effective, it is all filmed within a abandoned barn area and there is very little on the set just the artist the guitar, a chair and a microphone. This setting suits our krypton son's style of song as the song is acoustic and lonely, we can compare this song with a similar artist: Ed Sheeran, admittedly Ed Sheeran's music is more fast paced and upbeat but the similarities in the way they are shot are striking particularly comparing Ed Sheeran's: lego house (acoustic version) where it's just Ed and his guitar on a boat travelling down a canal. Ed does diversify with his music videos though, with his song "drunk" the music video is a clip which was recorded with the song over it. Even though this is different to our krypton son's video it still facilitates the use of blurs, focus shifts and even some cgi with a cat going with Ed to the bar. One way in which Ed's videos diversify from our krypton son's in terms of shot types.



In the video above (Ed Sheeran's - Lego house acoustic) there is use of focus on Ed for the most part of the video much like our krypton son's - catalonian love song, they both also make use of close up shots of the guitar make the viewer feel more involved with the music they are listening to. The focus pulls add depth to the video by making it seem as if Ed is reaching out to the people along the riverbank.



The video above of Catalonian love song by Our Krypton Son uses a lot of slow transition fades and slow pans to fit the slow pace of the song. In the music video are close ups of the guitar, these show the artist's skill and mastery of the instrument whist keeping the video simple and therefore the viewers attention is not distracted away from the soft lyrics. The slow transitions seem to keep in time with the slow pace of the music and the barren desolate barn provides an ideal backdrop for this type of song. The room all around looks in need of a restoration, the chair he is sitting on looks like it has seen better days and is in tatters, whilst the artist Chris mc Conaghy sits wearing a pristine suit and a nice guitar in his lap where as Ed Sheeran in his video is wearing everyday casual clothes and his usual customised guitar with a few stickers on it. So as Our krypton son are more formal, Ed is more casual and laid back in his videos.

The two artists