The Temper Trap

Sweet Disposition

unfortunately, this band has disabled the embed code, and therefore this video can only be watched on youtube. Appolagies

I chose to study this music video, because this music is within the same genre, in my opinion, as The XX. It is also a simple narrative and performance based video which is what we are also doing. Although saying that, the two videos will be very different.

Camerawork: The video starts of with a long tracking shot of a glowing golden light, this is followed by an overlapping closeup shot of the vocalist's face singing. The long tracking shot is generally continued throughout with exceptions to an extreme closeup of a woman's eye, and a few master shots of various galaxies and a wide shot of the skating woman as she passes across the screen, which happens on more than one occasion. We also see later on a closeup again of the womans face and a mid shot of her as she reaches out and closes in on the star, and then another few master shots. As she is pulled away, they use a long tracking shot, this time moving backwards,they then proceed to alternate between the normal long tracking shot and the backward tracking shot. There are also moments when during these tracking shots close ups of the musicians have been edited to fit the rest of the reflected movement, as it aproaches the forefront of the screen, by use of the tracking shots.
Towards the end of the video They use a still master shot, as the woman approaches the camera, and then another midshot which moves into a closeup. The rest is then a collection of previous shots such as the midshot as she skates, the closeup of the eye, the longshot of her passing across the screen, and then begins the final sequence including midshot, longshot,closeup, and longshot.

Main Theme or Idea: The main theme some might say is never to give up, as we watch the narrative of a woman battling against the gravitational pull of the stars. Perhaps suggesting that we should try not to conform, to strive for our own opinions...This seems to match the lyrics ' won't stop till its over, won't stop to surrender'

Special Effects: Heavy use of reflection or reflected splitscreen. Green screen was also used in post production.

Editing: Straight cuts, Also use of fade in and fade out of an overlapping close up shot. They also copied shots to create the never ending musicians appearing in the midle of the screen. Perfects continuity and elipsis of time.

Overall effect: beautiful colours, somthing i'd like to achieve within our own video, lighting would be just as important aswell. overall a very impressive video, with a large amount of variation in camerawork, editing, and special effects. We can take a leaf out of their book.