student video analysis

The video I am analysing is called shooting star.

The genre of the song is rock/pop. They have some of the typical conventions you would expect to see in this genre like the band playing there instruments like the guitar and drums, there is also a narrative going on of a man singing about the girl he wants back.

In the camera work they have used lots of different angles and shots. This works well because a lot of there video is of them performing in a forest and this would get a bit boring if it was shot with the same angle and same distance shot the hole way through. Some of the angles they have used are straight on, high, low and they have used close ups, medium shots and low angle shots. On a couple of the shots they have used a fish eye lens which gives a frame to the shot and holds the whole band together well. There is a shot from high up through the branches on the tree. I think that this shot is really effective because it looks like they are being watched by someone and as if the girl is spying on them.

I think that the shot where they zoom into the photo and it turns into them playing in real life is a really shot because it looks really professional as you could imagine seeing it in a real music video but I think it would fit in better if it was put in earlier on because you see them performing and then it flicks to the photos and then its back to them performing.

They have edited it together so it changes angles and flicks between the narrative and the performance of the band. As the song speeds up the change of shot starts to change a bit faster and the camera gets a bit shakey but I think that they could of changed the pace at which the shot changes a bit better to the time of the beat in the music. They have overlapped some of there shots so they fade in and out of each other which makes the video run smoothly.

They have connected some of the lyrics up to what’s going on in the video like when he sings the line ‘I’ll be knocking at your window’ we see a clip of him throwing up a stick at her window from her point of view, this helps us to understand what’s going on in the song as we can see it as well as hear it.

By Lucy