Music Video Techniques... Omniscience/ God Figure Idea

An idea that our group has had for our Music Video is the effect of Omniscience or a God Like Figure; which is a Micro-Element of Music Videos and Media Studies. Omniscience means 'having total knowledge' of the situation, therefore in the scenes of a music video the omniscient narrator will know what is going on in the narrative and tell the story through the lyrics of the song.

We will use this in our Music Video by having the singer as the narrator of the narrative but the characters involved will act like he is not there. An example of a Music Video that uses this is 'Bad Day' where the singer Daniel Powter is the narrator of the love story.

One of the main features we liked about this Music Video is editing technique of the cut between the narrative and the performance in the same location. This consisted of the singer and the characters on the same train but the editing of the video made it seem as if the narrator is singing non diagetically, but from the audience's point of view they are aware that the lyrics are relating to the couple and the situation.

To address this in our music video, we will include this at the start of the song where the lyrics say 'Go to sleep my love, I'll watch over us'. This will help us introduce the idea of the narrator being separated
from the narrative of the video by showing he has the knowledge of the story through the lyrics and use of lip syncing.