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.

Music Video Analysis B

Title:   Eyes Set To Kill - Broken Frames
Length:   2:55

Description:
This video I've chosen to analyse because it's down the band name, also this video takes a lighter approach to the videos, whilst still keeping the darkened affect throughout. It has various cut scenes, along with a lot of disorientation, and back light effects.

Textual Analysis:
Camera Work:

• Mid Shots to give a perspective of the person along with showing a brief view of the location.
• Close Ups of sections that have been picked up along the way, or of the musical instruments. 
• Full Shots shown of the story character wondering around, giving a visual perspective of the story outline.
• Stationary Camera but used on a track, which allows to follow the group and video without any shaking and irrelevant and unwanted shaking in the video.

Mise-En-Scene:

• Wooded area, allowing lighting effects and the story to take place.
• Lead singer changes clothing numerous times to give different effects during the video.

Sound:

• Recorded song, with video added afterwards.
• Microphone.
• Stereo Sounding.
• Basic Singing, subtle and calm (Female Vocalist.)
• Screaming, loud, vigorous (Male Vocalist.)

Editing:

• Lots of cut scenes at the beginning, which is a nice effect before the song starts.
• Cuts to the story constantly, keeping the viewer enticed with the outcome of the story.
• Shifting effects, looking like slight judders which adds a sense of power to the song.
• When the light bulb is being put into the ground, editing of the recorded video to remove the hand, so small sections of it being screwed in added together to create this.
• A progressive blurry effect added to some parts of the video, I love this effect as it seems really thought out where it should be implemented into the video (See Image Below.)

Extras:

• The lighting effects used within the video are used to their full advantage, getting the best possible outcome, it would be a great effect to do (See Image Below.)

• I enjoy the fact that they put a light bulb in the ground, it's quite inspiring although fairly easy to do, it's unique.

Music Video Analysis A

Title:   Eyes Set To Kill - Darling
Length:   4:09

Description:
I have chosen to analyse this music video by Eyes Set To Kill because it's the music video that my group are going to attempt to re-enact. It will be a great video analyse as it'll break down the components of what we need to do and achieve, also the standard that we have to work at to achieve a music video for this genre.

Textual Analysis:
Camera Work:

• The camera work consists of a hand held camera, to provide the jump effect which flows throughout the music video.
• Theres a lot of mid shots, close ups (to show the story of the video) close ups of the instruments.

Mis-En-Scene:

• Dark Clothing as it stands out in the lighter scenes.
• Lead Singer (Female) wears standard clothing, so she stands out from the band.
• Lots of props, including various clothing, doctors gown, face mask, latex gloves, speakers, projector and films, sterilized equipment.

Sound:

• Recorded song, with video added afterwards.
• Microphone.
• Stereo sound.
• Basic singing, subtle and calm (Female Vocalist.)
• Screaming, loud, vigorous (Male Vocalist.)

Editing:

• Flicks between singer(s) and band members, whilst constantly venturing off into the storyline, showing the surgeon, and the extra female who's being operated on.
• Shows the instruments often to show some part of the band, and the instrumental sections.
• A grainy effect flashes across the video at add a disorientated or old effect to the video, I enjoy this effect and shall attempt to create this effect during editing.
• There's a text overlay effect implemented into the video, which appears at various points (see image below.) Where the word 'Lies' appears in a text form overlapping the video itself.

Extras:

• I noticed that the video keeps in time with the music, so when the music slows down, the video itself slows to a reasonable pace, with less cut shots to alternative clips.