Background Research

Video production

Of course to make a music video you need the equipment, song, director and some initial ideas.
  Looking at a video from 2006 a fairly recent video Panic! At The Disco: I write sins not tragedies
During the first few cut scenes of the camera going back and forth from the singer and the actor the music for the singer is diegetic but for the actors it's non- diegetic, for the singer the camera is extremly close up to his face, where as the actors is mid shot and long shot and at one point it's extremely close up when he sings. During the rest of the video it is all very out of control and alot of cut scenes and a few bits of panning but the transitions work well.

I then looked at motley crue- girls, girls, girls from 1987.
 During the video it seems to focus alot on only a few people and the layout seems very simple there is alot of still camera work I only saw some panning while the band is on their bikes and the editing was alot of cutting same as the recent video just seemed more controlled.

Looking at both videos i feel the sound is better on the recent video and same as the video footage itself, where the 2006 had a lot going on in the back ground the 1987 had either non or very little and again was very controlled. In 2006 the camera was basically everywhere and the editing was mad but once again the 1987 it looked as if they had planned it. I feel the camera quality, editing systems and sound technology has improved quite a lot in the last 19 years.