A good example of a Music Video

Rihanna - Russian Roulette on MUZU.TV.

Rhianna - Russian Roulette is a great example of a good music video as the conventions what make it, are conventions that we could also use in my music video.

The Relationship between lyrics and visuals have been amplified as the lyrics is about Russian roulette; which is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against his or her head, and pulls the trigger. The music video amplifies this through the visuals as she has blood where her heart is and she in a room with a window conveying her feelings of being scared and petrified.

Rhianna is participating within this video as she is the one that has to pull the trigger as being part of the game However; every time it comes to the chorus she is singing by herself either in a room or outside. This shows that the main purpose of this music video was to promote the artist as she is the main focus of the music video and the very that the ratio between the performance and the narrative was not exactly even as their seemed to be more performance than nararative.

Throughout the music video, there are many jump cuts; like in most; however unlike other videos, the cutaways inbetween the jump cuts are very, very fast as it is meant to be portrayed as flashbacks of what has previously happened to help with the narrative also there was a cutin of a tiger which symbolises how fierice and vicious the game is. Also when the flashbacks are happening there is special effects added to show how vivid she remembers what happened. Special effects like blurring, distorted colours and dark lighting will be a good technique to use in my music video as it will help to amplify the things we are trying to get across to the audience.

The lighting in the music video is very dark to convey the life-frettening aim of the game. There is a spotlight when Rhianna is in the room with the window, this is to show how in the game if you pull the trigger and kill the other player then you have to live with the decision for the rest of your life.

Transitions are used to connect the two jump cuts together. The fade in overlapping is a good technique to use because  the song we have choosen is also slow therefore the slow movement of the transitions will go in time with the beat of the song.

Fast motion is used to speed up action. For example near the end of the song a car is going to knock her down, the fast motion speeds up the process to convey how quickly she wants to end her life. Yet again; fast motion is a good technique to use to create tension and to evoke emotion within the audience.