This song relates to the song we have chosen to do our music video to as it has areas of performance and also uses green screen throughout. This song is also the same genre as the Pink Floyd song we have chosen to do, making it relevant.
Music Video Analysis 4
Kings of Leon – Molly’s Chambers
The video starts off with the band performing against a green screen, with a variety of arty elements changing colors and moving through different shots. The camerawork is also clever as the shots switch back and forth creating a re-winding and fast-forwarding effect.
The shots also cross over reach other, which achieves an original style of presenting the performance sections of the video. Although our video will have lots of narrative features and not as much performance as this particular song, this video has lots of ideas that have inspired how we aim to present the performance part of our video. We have talked about green screening because we can edit our video to have a wide variety of colors, making the video original. This also allows us to add our creative imagery to the performance side of our music video.
The long shots of the band in this particular video are extremely effective because it hides the identity of the band, then suddenly there will be several close ups in a row which creates a number of interesting angles of the band. As the music picks up speed, the shots of the band change quicker and quicker and the cuts come in such a fast succession there is a sense of uniqueness about the video.
The end of the video is very interesting, because the shots are put into small squares which zoom further away from the camera, and as they move away it is clear that and X shape is being created by the small squares, which is very unconventional, in my view, making the video interesting and fresh.
Although it looks like there is not a lot narrative in this video, it could be said that this is not the case because there are hundreds of different facial expressions pulled by the members of the bands. There are also a lot of moves which they include while they are playing heir instruments which could be seen as some narrative. There is also a very professional look to this video, as the cuts of the music are perfectly in line with music and the performance that is important. We aim to achieve this to as it will give us a better chance of getting a high mark, because the more professional our video looks the better.
The variety of colors, shots, speed and angles in this video makes it an unconventional video, which even people who don’t like the music can enjoy.
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