D.B: Technical Analysis

Shot	Duration	Camera	Mise-en-scene
1	0:00-0:03	CU	Smoke slowly rises on the right side of the screen. The background is blurry and only the smoke is in focus.
2	0:03-0:06	ECU track down	Water is sprayed over the bright red flowers in slow motion.
3	0:06-0:08	CU	The back of a car pulling out of drive with the exhaust puffing smoke.
4	0:08-0:12	ECU track down	A square canvas red and white striped bag is still whilst brown leaves fall from it.
5	0:12-0:14	MS tracking back, the camera is straight on to the 2 people walking.	2 of the band members are leisurely walking down a street during the day.
6	0:14-0:17	CU, the camera is to the guys’ left.	The same 2 guys continue to walk
7	0:17-0:19	CU fast tracking following the running man.	The bottom half of a man’s legs running ferociously
8	0:19-0:21	LS slow track	The previous guy running towards the two guys walking together – very subtly slow mo
9	0:21-0:24	MS tracking back - the camera is in front of the two walking guys again	The running man come up behind behind the 2 leisurely guys and then bumps into them as he runs past.
10	0:24-0:26	MS	The two guys look at each other and then run after him.
11	0:26-0:29	ELS – fast tracking	A far away shot of the guys running after the one guy
12	0:29-0:31	ELS - fast tracking	An even further away shot of the guys running after the one guy
13	0:31-0:34	LS	A woman is in her living room ironing a sheet.
14	0:34-0:36	CU	The iron steaming but at 0:35 the shot becomes slow motion and the colours become more saturated
15	0:36-0:37	LS	Slow mo of the guys running in the window the shot is mostly taken up by an extremely unfocused ornament on the windowsill
16	0:37-0:40	CU	The lady slowly opens her eyes and steam slightly covers her face
17	0:40-0:43	LS tracking the running men	Slow mo of the guys running again but they shot is again mostly taken up by the window ornament
18	0:43-0:47	CU	The lady looks dazed and her face is covered with steam from the iron - slow mo and then right at the end speeding up to normal as well as desaturating back to normal.
19	0:47-0:48	MS tracking back	All 3 men are running down a street and can be seen
20	0:48-0:49	Panning round as they run past the camera	Side shot of the 2 men running behind frantically trying to catch up
21	0:49-0:50	MS	Lower legs sprinting
22	0:50-0:52	The shot starts off as a MS and then it zooms out quickly to a LS – the camera is tracking backwards.	The guy in front is centred as the 2 guys chasing after him can briefly be seen running behind him – they are all sprinting down a street
23	0:52-0:53	LS	Guy watering flowers in his front garden with his dog
24	0:53-0:54	CU	A road going by quickly
25	0:54-0:56	MCU – panning to the right.	The guys at the back sprint on.
26	0:56-0:58	MS - Pan round and then still on the flower guy	Following the lead runner as he runs past the camera lingering on the man watering his front garden.
27	0:58-1:01	CU	Slow motion of the man’s hand with a working hose in it – highly saturated and slightly blurry from lens flares.
28	1:01-1:04	CU	The man is scowling at what is assumed to be the people manically running past his house. His face is slightly silver and metallic looking and the shots are still hyper saturated.
29	1:04-1:07	CU	Dog opening it’s eyes and then being cut off by the lens flare in the top right corner.
30	1:07-1:10	CU – slow pan down the flowers	Red flowers being waters in slow mo. At the end of the shot it desaturates back to normal and speeds up.
31	1:10-1:11	MS	Man watering flowers again as the 2 back runner go past his house.
32	1:11-1:12	MS	The back of the lead runner running down the street
33	1:12-1:12	MLS	A wider shot of the same guy running down the street
34	1:12-1:13	MS – pan to the right	Shot of the two runner’s midriffs as they continue to run.
35	1:13-1:15	MS tacking away from the runners	All 3 runners are seen running down the street.
36	1:15-1:1	CU	The feet of the 2 back runners

The majority of my inspiration taken from this video is when the shots suddenly change from realistic portrayals of the world to becoming slow motion and filled with saturated colour. Magical realism is incorporated to create wonder in these seemingly normal events.

Synaesthesia is created when the shots become slow motion because the music becomes slightly more intense and slower. The beginning 4 shots foreshadow the most chaotic moments in the video and I thought it added more depth. We have decided to take inspiration from this technique by adding saturated flashbacks into our music video.

The shots in this video are mainly very short because the song is fast paced and so is the action that they are representing. This is something that is very relevant to our track and I didn’t realise how many shots we would actually need to fill in the time our song is. I understand now how utterly important it is that we not only get every shot that we plan to but also some extra shots in case we make a mistake and decide to cut a certain shot shorter and then no longer have enough footage.

With all the running shots the camera moved with the characters whether that meant it tracked in front of or behind them or panned to follow them as they ran past the camera. This meant that the audience felt part of the action and felt as though they were moving as well, exaggerating the movement. This is incredibly relevant for our concept for when we are filming the dancers it will be much more effective if the camera is always moving.

Rule of thirds

All of the transitions used were straightforward cuts, which is probably something we will copy throughout most of our video. The rule of thirds is kept when the shots become hyper saturated and in slow motion because they are trying to create shots of exaggerated beauty whereas most of the shots of the guys running had them centred in order to show the guy ahead as well as the 2 behind him.