Inspiration-Madonna

We watched a couple of different music videos that features dancing in a club to gain inspiration for the dancing segments of our own video. These are some screenshots from Madonna's video for her song 'Hung up'.

We took these screenshots because they show how movement can be captured brilliantly through the use of a variety of shot types and angles.

These shots have a voyeuristic tone,almost as if the person filming is spying on Madonna.

You can see objects and shapes partly obscuring the view which leads the viewer to believe Madonna is being spied on.Its a subtle effect but it works well when combined with the more louder shots in this sequence.

There is alot of movement in this sequence in the video.The camera pans alot and moves with Madonna as she is spinning and twirling.You get the feeling the cameraperson is dancing along with her.

This is another voyeur shot.Notice how Madonna's face is looking completely the other way into the mirror.In all the other shots her face is one of the key points in the mise en scene of the sequence.

The low angle shots as Madonna works her way towards the camera work really well here.This is because they contrast well with the mid-long shots and voyeur shots that make up the rest of the sequence.

Madonnas music videos are a great source of inspiration in terms of filming dance.We hope to use some of these techniques when filming the belly dancer at the Darbucka club. In our clip we will use slow motion body movement of the belly dancer tilting from down and upwards. We will be rotating the camera around the belly dancer with close ups of her body and low angle shots.The use of tripod wheels would help here but will probably be impractical in a club. The other video we watched was 'Sorry'.