Research Time Yay!

My group is using the song “Last Christmas” by Wham! for this project. This song is included in the holiday genre, specially Christmas songs. Accordant to my research, using our song “Last Christmas”,  "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Baby It's Cold Outside” by John Legend, sung by Idina Menze the music video may include: 

-Snow

-Bright Lighting or Christmas colored lights 

-Festive Christmas like Santa hats, rain deer antlers, etc. 


Camera Angles and Movements: 

• Zoom (To emphasis a person and expressions(

-Pan (To show the festive scenery)


Camera shots like: 

-Wide shot (to show environment)

-Long shot (to show the characters

dancing or ice skating)

-Close-ups (to show facial expressions, festive makeup or reactions)

-Tracking shot (to emphasis and track what a person is doing) 

-Many two-shots and three-shots 

-Fade out shots (to make clean/ pretty transitions to the next shot)


Since I am filming a Christmas music video the Christmas song will be playing over the entire video. As I live in Florida which is a tropical area we will need to get creative with our props and sets. We will include many props such as fake snow, Christmas trees, Christmas lights etc. We will also find a setting to film at that is already festive and decorative like the beach, christmas on Las Olas, and ice skating rink, or even someones Christmas decorated home.






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