The video that I have chosen is very relevant to our chosen song, due to the fact that it delivers a personal performance, with personal lyrics which brings about a greater meaning to the whole video, just from the performance and the first person mode of address. The use of guitars is similar to what we plan to use, also a similar type of venue that we hope to use, with the use of lighting in form with the performance.
The cutting rate is fairly generic and conforms to the genre charachteristics. The rate works well with the performance giving the artist more time to draw in the audience to have a more focused viewing of the video. We will try to keep our cutting rate up to this standard, this should hopefully keep the audience interested and make the video look more authentic and original.
Technical analysis of Biffy Clyro- Many of horror, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAh--lH0H3U&ob=av3e
This Analysis gives a shot by shot breakdown of the video, giving us lots of help and useful information about how we should create our video.
MS- silouet of the artist performing, lip syncing and playing the guitar in time, with a slow zoom into his face from behind.
Cut to a CU of the artists face, with a light in the back ground panning from left to right, making his head black out the light at one point. Drawing attention to his face.
Cut to CU of his face, taking up the right half of the screen, looking at the ground
looking sad. Using emotions in the performance to great effect.
Cut to LS of the singer playing the guitar with the basist and drummer in the background, placed diagonally and to the right of eachother, so they can all be seen, synced up music to the performance. Zoom out and panning.
Cut to a CU of the singers face again tith the same light, this time a pan from right to left.
Cut to MS of the singer playing the guitar and singing, looking quite sad. With a slow pan from right to left.
Cut to CU of the performers face while singing pan left to right with the light again.
Cut to siloueted shot of the singer playing guitar, this time the zoom tracks back from where it last tracked in, away and to the right of his face.
Cut to MS of the singer playing the guitar with lots of light in the background, giving him more of a pronounced presence.
Cut to siloueted close up of the singer, bobbing his head.
Cut to MS of the singer playing the guitar yet again, lip syncing with his eyes closed, which adds emotion to the lyrics and performance.
Cut to MLS of the basist syncing the base up with the music, of him just dancing around while playing the base.
Cut to MS of the singer, lip syncing, staring at something, as if he has had some bad news or is very sad and in his own little world.
Cut to panning left to right MS of the singer playing the guitar.
Cut to a low angle shot of the singer playing the guitar of his left hand side, panning left to right.
Cut to CU of the artist, low angle shot on his face still lip syncing.
Cut to panning shot of him sitting down from left to right.
Cut to the same position his face was left in the previous shot, and still panning in the same direction. Although in this shot he is playing the guitar.
Cut to low angle silouet shot of the artist playing the guitar. Panning left to right.
Cut to MS of the artist with the band behind him, slowly zooming out.
Cut to side ways on silouet shot of the artist Zooming out slowly from his face.
Cut to MS of the artist playing the guitar, with a slow zoom out.
Cut to CU of the artists face, panning left to right, syncing his lips to the words. With a weird affect on his face, kind of illuminating it, looks as if it is connoting he is going a bit mad, or is just sad and depressed.
Cut to low angle MS of the artist singing and playing the guitar.
Cut to a MS of the drummer hitting his drun intome to the beat.
Cut to LS of the group, diagonally to the right behind eachother so they all fit in the shot, still performing in time to the music.
Cut to MS siloueted, tracking and zooming out form the left while he is performing the song on the guitar.
Cut to CU tracking right of the artists face, while he is gazing at something, connoting sadness and not knowing what to do.
Cut to MS of the band playing.
Cut to a low angle shot siloueted by a big light of the main artist playing the guitar in time to the track.
Cut to MS of the basist, with a slow zoom onto his guitar.
Cut to slow panning shot of the artists face CU, panning left to right, the show has been used many times showing repeatability within the video.
Cut to MS of the singer with the band in the background, with a slow zoom onto the singer.
Bright lights in the background make the screen white, adding affect, this connotes there performing as if on stage but there performing to no one.
Cut to ms slow zoom out of the band
Cut to Zoom in from MS to CU of the singers face, still lip syncing, showing that the whole piece is a performance piece.
Cut from CU of the Siloueted singer
Cut to MS of the drummer hitting his drums in time. Which zooms in on his face.
Cut to MS of the artist, panning right to left with an effect on his face, distorting it. Kind of making his face flash in different places.
Vut to a bright light zooming back, with a MS of the band.
Cut to panning shot of the guitarist and the singer, CU of the singer MS of the guitarist from left to right.
Cut to MS from behind of the artist with a lightning effect added in infront of the artist where he’s playing, connoting power.
Cut to CU of the singer with the effect on it, panning left to right.
Cut to MS of the drummer.
Cut to LS of the singer playing the guitar.
Cut to MS of the singer sitting with lightning hitting his head, with the weird effect on his face again, possibly connoting dementia and going insane because of something traumatic.
Cut to MS slow motion of the singer playing the guitar with quite a lot of power.
Cut to zoom from a MS to CU of the band.
Cut to CU of the drummer.
Cut to MS zoom left to right of the singer performing again.
Cut to zoom form CU to XCU of the artists face with the effect still on it.
Lots of cuts follow of all the band members over the next two seconds of close ups of their performance.
Cut to out of focus shot of the basists head rocking forwards in slow motion.
Cut to a Zoom from MS to CU of the artists face, standing upright with the effect on his face, and bot body, using first person mode of address.
Cutting between the artist in a silouete playing the guitar looking down, and the band performing, with lots of movement.
Cut to the first bit of the song where he isn’t lip syncing, a CU of his face, putting his hands threw his hair as if he has done something wrong.
Cut to MS of him in the top right hand corner of the screen however he is continuing lip syncing again.
Many cuts again between him and the band playing, all closeups while int more instrumental.
Cut between him walking down a path, and the band plying, it’s a tracking shot, low angle MS of the artist walking forwards. Cutting between that and the band performing.
A slow motion effecti is then added to the singer as he is walking towards something.
Cut to MS panning right to left of the guitarist / singer with the band in the background.
Cutting yet again between the artist and the band, closeups of the performance.
Cut to MS with a slow motion effect on it, of the singer getting more into the song and emotional towards it.
Cut Between the drummer and the basist, CU of them performing.
Cut to CU of the artist singing in first person mode of address with the effect on his face. Zooming out
Cuts between that and the band performing when it’s the instrumental part, and the CU of his face when it is the singing part.
Cut to panning CU of the singer from right to left. With a bright light in the background.
Followed to cuts of the band. All looking fairly sad.
Cocclusion, what have i learnt from this analysis?
This technical analysis has shown me many things that i will need to consider when constructing our music video, it shows what a large percentage of shots in a performance piece are meat shots, more than half the video was meat shots and closeups. it also showed me the importtance of lighting and how it can be used to emphasise emotions of a piece, and be used to create silouets. This exercise has been very useful and i will be thinking about it when i start storyboarding and brainstorming more ideas. Also i have come away with knowing that we are more than likely going to have to use a spotlight, since our lighting may not be as good as we want it if not.
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