Music Videos (Exploring Lighting)

The lighting in music videos can show the professional side of the producer so its key for the music video lighting to be done properly.Lighting is used to create atmosphere and often to emphasize beats of the music.
Pop/House Music Videos have similarities in lighting because  both use bright colorful lighting which they usually set in a party or club like atmosphere which contrasts with the fast beats and upbeat emotions of the songs as bright colours are stereo typically related to this style of music. After The Lighting Workshop i decided to do some research into looking at Music videos and the lighting they use.

I first off looked at a music video called 'Cheat Codes - no promises' The genre being electronic music/pop
Music video: https://youtu.be/jn40gqhxoSY

I noticed that at the start of the music video the artist is standing in a dark from with only lighting from the window making her visible,i noticed how they have either used natural lighting through the window or used lights on the outside to gleam through the window. This effect puts the center of attention straight on the artist as she is the only object visible due to the light.

As you can see here they have used a lens flares: 
Lens flares can intentionally compose shots to emphasize the effect, while most lens flares are created purely to draw the audience’s eye,It has the ability to add realism and gives shots more dimension. They have created this lens flare by the light source in the image being behind the object so the light comes into direct contact with the lens of the camera to create a flare,in this case it has given the shot more tones and made it more dramatic.

Throughout this Music video the continuing of the lens flare lighting continues to play an effect on the video, especially shots in a plain room, this gives the shots taken more colour and attention without the audiences bored by the same scenes.

Another lighting shot is seen in 'Paris' Music Video: https://youtu.be/fRNkQH4DVg8
Where the lighting in the video shows the drama of the shot by just having natural light shining on the artists face to show her emotions towards to the soon,while having the rest of the shot in the dark,giving a bigger effect on the emotions of the artist and keeping the audiences attention on them.

This is shown here:
We can see the emotions of the artist by the lighting being directly onto their face,also this makes the shot look very realistic.










I also looked into background lighting,the same photographic lights i was looking at in my Lighting workshop to see how professional Music Videos use such professional lighting,here i found a music video called 'Stay the Night'
Music Video: https://youtu.be/i-gyZ35074k

This video is purely focused on this Photographic lighting throughout the video, i saw how much the lighting behind the artist created flares in the camera lens that then blurred out when they switched shots throughout the video,it also made the video look dramatic. Even though there was lights behind they were just used to make the video look different then having a dark background.If they just had a dark background it would of changed the whole outlook on the video as the lights make it fun without being over the top,and the focus is still on the artist. We can see how they also use light boxes to light up the artists face without it over powering the dark background and still keeping the lights gleaming in the back ground which they did by having shallow depth of field to make normal lights blur in the background.

Looking at a different genre of music such as Rock music,I noticed how lighting played a different role and how much just lighting effected the other all look of the rock videos to show its genre. The lighting in rock videos tends to be from harsh lights at concerts which light up the back of the artists to show out lines of them,rock videos have quite little amount of lighting its mostly shadows.
You can see here the music video called 'Livin' on a prayer'
Music video: https://youtu.be/lDK9QqIzhwk

As you can see in this Music Video the lighting is all using Photographic harsh lighting which is all that lights up the scene. This corrects a more rock vibe due to the colours being dark and artists being shadowed. This type of genre has minimal lighting making ti dark and mysterious.