Hey Violet - Guys My Age

This music video was uploaded two days ago, and as I was searching today I found it. I love the colour and lighting scheme of the video, I've heard of the band before: 'Hey Violet' however I've never watched their videos - only listened to the audio. However I hadn't heard of their song 'Guys My Age', I enjoyed the song as well as the video however the video is simply incredible for the lighting aspect.

Here are a few screenshots of the music video:

The footage has a filter over it to replicate dust and marks on actual physical film, I like this idea and may use it in our own video for the beginning and end of it because it gives a weathered look to the footage.

They have also included light flares over the footage whilst changing the colours of the lighting scheme. I also like how the have positioned the singer over centre and have out of focus behind her.

They also have many band shots showing them playing the instruments and singing along. They have set it in front of a dinner and followed the lighting scheme of pinks, purples and blues. 

The footage also showcases shots of the band members playing their instruments, we can include similar shots to this in our own video. 

The footage of the whole band vary in shots and length of them, this is nice because it gives some variation to the video.

The video also includes some cut away footage, not showing a particular scene but giving the viewer different shots to become interested by.

The singer also looks in the mirror during the video, this is something we plan our actress to do in our video we can follow a similar look with her hair being out of focus in a deep shot. 

She also writes on the mirror we could edit our original plan to follow the idea and film it in an almost psychotic way with lots of jump cuts and distortion.

The footage shows all of the band members we can also use this idea.

I like the close up on the members with only their hands or faces showing it creates a more intimate feel to the video.

Overall I feel that this video was very well executed with the lip syncing and playing instruments on point, and that the lighting scheme has given me more ideas about our own lighting.

By watching this video I feel that I know more about how we are going film our band scenes and how we are going to light our sets, this has helped because before we were going to fix the camera in one position and not move it for the band shots apart from close ups. I feel inspired and influenced by this video.

Here is the full video: