In my research for my groups media music video, I have started looking at music videos put out by a particular band. This blog post will be looking at the music videos of the Californian pop rock band "Haim". The band comprises of three sisters - Este Haim (bass guitar/backing vocals), Danielle Haim (lead vocals/lead guitar), and Alana Haim (backing vocals/keyboard/drums). The band have released several music videos of singles from their debut album 'Days Are Gone' - the three I will be focusing on here will be 'Falling', 'If I Could Change Your Mind', and 'The Wire'.
The music videos for the band are very performance-based and are all filmed in colour. Both of the music videos for 'Falling' and 'If I Could Change Your Mind' feature the band performing and dancing to both songs in various different backdrops and settings, with no traces of narrative found in either video at all.
The music video for 'The Wire' is more performance-based, showing all three members of the band breaking up with their partners, causing their partners to try (and fail) to win them back. The video features many different types of camera angles and shots, the most notable being the "dolly zoom", a cinematic technique used in many different film and television productions. "The effect is achieved by zooming a zoom lens to adjust the angle of view (often referred to as field of view or FOV) while the camera dollies (or moves) towards or away from the subject in such a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout. In its classic form, the camera angle is pulled away from a subject while the lens zooms in, or vice-versa. Thus, during the zoom, there is a continuous perspective distortion, the most directly noticeable feature being that the background appears to change size relative to the subject." The effect is used throughout the video, being used each time the partner of each member realises that they're being dumped. Even though the video is mainly narrative-based, performance is still a key part. The members of the band are shown to be singing the words when breaking up with their partners, and the climax of the video takes place at a Haim concert, reinforcing the idea that all of Haim's music videos are primarily performance-based.
The music videos for the band are very performance-based and are all filmed in colour. Both of the music videos for 'Falling' and 'If I Could Change Your Mind' feature the band performing and dancing to both songs in various different backdrops and settings, with no traces of narrative found in either video at all.
The music video for 'The Wire' is more performance-based, showing all three members of the band breaking up with their partners, causing their partners to try (and fail) to win them back. The video features many different types of camera angles and shots, the most notable being the "dolly zoom", a cinematic technique used in many different film and television productions. "The effect is achieved by zooming a zoom lens to adjust the angle of view (often referred to as field of view or FOV) while the camera dollies (or moves) towards or away from the subject in such a way as to keep the subject the same size in the frame throughout. In its classic form, the camera angle is pulled away from a subject while the lens zooms in, or vice-versa. Thus, during the zoom, there is a continuous perspective distortion, the most directly noticeable feature being that the background appears to change size relative to the subject." The effect is used throughout the video, being used each time the partner of each member realises that they're being dumped. Even though the video is mainly narrative-based, performance is still a key part. The members of the band are shown to be singing the words when breaking up with their partners, and the climax of the video takes place at a Haim concert, reinforcing the idea that all of Haim's music videos are primarily performance-based.
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