AP - Technical Analysis

The video that I have chosen is to do is Rudimental - Feel The Love. The reason that I have chosen this video is because I want to get a greater understand of the artist's metanarrative as we have chosen a rudimental track for our final piece.

Analysis

This video, like many other Rudimental music videos has a very high cutting rate. There is not much editing involved in this video, the only evident editing I could see was the use of shallow focus, the background is out of focus in a lot of the shots.

There a lots of tracking shots in this video, but they are all shaky suggesting that they are handicam shots tracking backwards. Between the different shots there is no fading, it just jumps to the next shot and each shot is only around 3 seconds long which makes the video rather jumpy. There is not a wide range of camera angles, the only angles which come up a lot in this video are slight low angles, which sometimes can not be noticed.

Time	Camera (shot, angle, movement)	Mise-En-Scene	Editing
0.00 - 0.02 seconds	There is a tracking shot backwards.	There is a young boy walking towards the camera holding what appears to be a boom box. External location. In the third there is a car and the kurb.	No significant editing involved in this clip.
0.02 - 0.05 seconds	Medium Close Up	Medium close up of the boys face, we now establish what the boy looks like. External location. Coat with a fur hood which could connote that it is cold outside. Blank facial expression, just looking around.	Fast paced, jump cut to this shot from the previous.
0.05 - 0.07 seconds	Medium Long Shot	Handicam shot tracking backwards. Snow in the background, we can now see that it is probably Winter outside. It appears to be a different person walking towards the camera now.  Wearing Winter clothes. Sun in the background creating shadows making it hard to see the characters face.	Not significant editing involved in this clip
0.07 - 0.09 seconds	Pan shot, slowly panning to the right.	In this shot there is no people, there is just a horse. First we can see the front of the horse's face then he turns around, as does the camera.	Focus on the horse. The background is now fuzzy.
0.09 - 0.11 seconds	Handicam with a slight Pan Up	External location. There is a man looking around.	At first it is out of focus, then there is a pull focus on the man,
0.11 - 0.12 seconds	Medium Close up, slight low angle.	There is another young boy, wearing Winter clothes. He has a warm hat on. His eyes appear to be watering, this could either be due to the cold weather, or the fact he is upset. Blank facial expression.	Shallow focus, only the boy is in focus.
0.12 - 0.14 seconds	Medium Close up, panning shot going around the young boy.	Another young boy in the shot. He appears to be chewing something. He nods his head as if he is acknowledging someone. Costume is also Winter clothes. External location.	Shallow focus, only the boy is in focus.
0.14 - 0.15 seconds	Medium Close up, slight low angle.	A man is now sat in the car. Costume is Winter Clothes with a hat on. His facial expression is quite happy. He is sat in a car, this can be seen by the steering wheel and the body panels between the doors. External location.	No significant editing involved in this clip.
0.15 - 0.17 seconds	Tracking shot, Handicam shot.	Rule of thids, the young boy is in the far left third of the screen with the man in the centre. The mans facial expression has not changed, but he is now shaking the boys hand. Both have similar costumes. External location.	No significant editing involved in this clip.
0.17 - 0.20 seconds	Pan shot by hand.	External location. In the background behind the horse, we can see what appears to be a rundown area as the buildings look ruined. The shot follows the horses head whilst it looks around, looking into the camera, breaking the fourth wall.	Shallow focus.
0.20 -0.22 seconds	Tracking shot following a young boy.	A young boy is crossing the road. The only prop in this shot looks like a horses reigns. External location.	No significant editing involved in this clip.
0.22 - 0.24 seconds	Tracking shot again but from a different position.	Tracking shot following the boy but now we can see the upper half of his body. Costume is	Shallow focus.
0.24 - 0.26 seconds	Tracking shot, Medium Long Shot.	A young boy is blowing into this hands trying to warm them up. We can see it is cold from this as well as from his costume which is a big orange puffer jacket.	Shallow focus.
0.26 - 0.30 seconds	Shakey tracking shot which is tracking backwards. Medium Long Shot.	External location. The only character in this shot is a teenage boy who is looking at a horse. The horse is looking away from him into the camera, again, breaking the fourth wall. Grey sky in the background which makes it appear to be dull.	Shallow focus.
0.30 - 0.31 seconds	Establishing Shot. Long Shot.	External location. Establishing shot of a large building which at first looked isolated, but on the far right third, there appear to be more buildings.	No significant editing involved in this clip.
0.31 - 0.33 seconds	Medium Long Shot.	This shot is now closer than the previous one. There is now a blue car in the shot with a window open. The camera appears to be looking over the car in a voyeuristic way.	No significant editing involved in this clip.
0.33 - 0.36 seconds	Tracking Shot to the left. Establishing Shot.	External location. In the distance you can see houses with snow on their roofs.	No signifcant editing involved in this clip.
0.36 - 0.38 seconds	Panning shot to the right. Medium Long Shot.	A young boy a horse. In the right third is another horse with a man sat on it, you can only see the lower half of his body. He shakes the young boys hand.	Shallow focus.
0.38 - 0.40 seconds	Medium Long Shot. Slight Low Angle. Shakey Tracking Shot	On the right third you can see a man brushing the horses fur.	Shallow focus.

I like this shot because it is a tracking shot which is following the boy. It is also a medium long shot and we can see the building in the background. Infront of the building is wasteland which is a location which we need as it can be used to show I am homeless when doing the music video.

I have chosen this shot as we can see that the man is lonely and there is no one around him. This is something we want to go for in our final piece when I am making my way back home after having an argument with the people I was sleeping rough with.

 I like this shot as it is a panning shot which spins around the man in the shot. We will try and do a shot similar to this. Like the previous shot, this shot helps to show the man as lonely.

What I like about this shot is that it is a medium close up of the side of the boys face and we can see that his eyes are watering. This is a shot I want to use to show that I am upset but glad to be going home.

 

I want to use a shot like this when I am trying to find my way home as we can see a man sat in a car hanging out whilst someone is talking to him. We want to hitchhike home in the video. But we will not actually be hitchhiking.

I like this title screen at the end as it is quite simple but is conventional of Rudimentals metanarrative.