Sarah: Technical Analysis

The track i have chosen for my technical analysis is "Oh Yeah" by The Subways. I chose this song because it is of the same genre as our chosen Pink Spiders song and therefore will have similar conventions for its music video. This video is performance based.

Key:
(1)= How long (seconds) the shot lasted
- = New shot
LS = Long Shot
CU = Close Up
ECU= Extreme Close Up
HA = High Angle
LA = Low Angle
MS = Mid Shot

-LS of drummer (4)
-CU of him putting water glass on amp (1)
-HA of drummer getting ready to play (4)
-ECU of water glass moving across amp due to noise levels (2)
-LS of whole band (1)
-CU of girl at microphone (1)
-LS of whole band (1)
-CU of singers microphone with singer dancing behind (1)
-HA of drummer (1/2)
-MS of drummer (1/2)
-CU of microphone (1/2)
-LS of band dancing and playing instruments (1)
-CU of microphone (1)
-LS of band (1/2)
-ECU of singer at microphone(1)
-LS of band (2)
-CU of singer (1)
-ECU of microphone and singer (1)
-CU of drummer- shot moves from stomach to middle drum to lower drum (1)
-CU of singer addressing camera (2)
-LS of band (1)
-CU of girl (1)
-ECU of girl (1)
-CU of singer's torso climbing onto drums- camera follows his body onto drums (2)
-CU of girls face and microphone (2)
-LS of singer jumping from drums (1)
-CU of water glass (1)
-LS of band playing (1)
-HA of drummer (1/2)
-ECU of drummer (1)
-CU of singer (1/2)
-CU of girl (1/2)
-LS of band playing- canted angle (1)
-ECU of girls face and microphone (2)
-MS of band playing (1)
-ECU of guitar (1)
-ECU of hair/head (1/2)
-CU of girl

Although this deconstruction is of less than half of the song, it is clear that for a music video to be successful (which includes being repeatable, interesting and conforming to some of the generic conventions) the shots must be short and cut sharply between each other and, as it is a performance based video, the emphasis must be placed on the band as the main talent using a range of shots such as close-ups. From this excercise i've learnt that we have a challenge ahead of us for our own video to get this many shots and ranges of shots included!