Music Video Analysis C

Title:   Eyes Set To Kill - Liar In The Glass
Length:   4:03


Description:
This music video is one of the first ESTK brought out, it's a low budget with low effect, but it still comes across as a fairly average video, for one of their best and earliest songs, and has gained over 2.5 million views on YouTube due to this.


Textual Analysis:
Camera Work:

• Hand held camera, as it has some shaky filming, but with the cut scenes it's not really noticeable.
• Mid shots which most of the time has numerous members in the scene.
• Zooming is used quite often in this video, into and out of the focus of the center piece.
• Long Shots complimenting the range of Mid Shots and Close Ups.
• The angel of the shots used varies, from aiming up towards the focus crating a dominating effect, which moves to an overview which shows an inferior or powerless display.

Mise-En-Scene:

• Scruffy clothing, makes it intended that its a student band.
• In a plain room/studio, with instruments.

Sound:

• Recorded song, with video added afterwards.
• Microphone, with instruments.
• Stereo Sounding.
• Basic Singing, subtle and calm (Female Vocalist.)
• Screaming, loud, vigorous (Male Vocalist.)
• Shows a compilation of two different genre's of music.

Editing:

 

•  Cut Cut's of clips to show the speed of that section of the song.
• A mix of clips, edited and placed together to create certain effects during various tempo's of the song (Face paced clips during quick/heavy instrumental sections, fewer clips used during slower/slow instrumental sections.)
• Flashing Imagery, which turns out really nicely, showing the full effect of the music by video (Displayed to the right.)
• The video flicks between the instruments quite often, showing their playing technique, then back between the Female Vocalist, and the Male Vocalist. The whole band/group tend not to appear much, only during various slower sections of the song.