Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Carol Vernallis


Carol Vernallis analysed music videos and studied the editing and camerawork closely. She observed that in music videos edits come much more frequently than in film and seem to have a rhythmic basis closely connected to the song.


  • the usual rules of 'continuity ' editing are broken in order to draw attention to what is on screen. There are also a lot of outfit changes in music videos
  • Edits may be really obvious to draw attention to themselves such as wipes and special effects added
  • jump cuts are often used
  • a master shot base track is frequently used to give the video a structure
  • The camera may move in time with the music.

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