Saturday 4 October 2014

Blame it on me- George Ezra

The song opens with a long shot which tilts down towards the street to establish the setting, there is natural high key lighting used to highlight the street and birds flying past in the sky to represent peace. Diegetic sounds is used as the camera tilts down, it is the sound of a car driving past to make the scene more realistic. Once the camera has tilted down and is still it focuses on the road while the car drives towards the camera; the camera starts to pan with the car while it drives past. This shows how calm the setting is and gives the audience a little bit more of an idea of what the scene looks like.  The camera stops panning and focuses on two people talking, after a few seconds they walk away from each other, this could represent the distance between them both and how they are not just physically walking away from each other but mentally leaving each other as well. All the lighting is natural however very high key, to make the scene seem natural and realistic.

The shot then sharply cuts to a close-up of a man looking directly into the camera asking the audience a question. There are subtitles under the close up in yellow asking 'Are you sure you want to follow the yellow brick road?' the yellow writing stands out on the background and makes it clear for the viewer to read it. They have kept the man in focus however all the background is all blurred out, this is to show the man is important in the scene and to hide any un-important information in the background. The lighting used is all natural however the man is highlighted to stand out more. The scene goes back to a long shot of two people talking on the street again, they both walk away slowly and don't look back. This could show the relationship between the two characters. 
Non-diegetic music is used through-out the rest of the video as it is a music video. The title page to the song appears, they have used a medium shot of the singer walking away from the camera with the title of the song in white in the middle of the shot. The white writing stands out because the background is slightly low key, the camera slowly tilts up to get a full view of the singer. The camera follows him down the street then pans around him so the audience can see his face. As the camera pans around him it goes into a close-up from the side of his face, the camera doesn't stay stable as it pans around; it slightly tilts up and down. There was a medium shot of two girls walking down the street enjoying themselves, the medium shot makes the scene feel more relaxed and comfortable which makes the girls come across more friendly. They have edited the shot so the girls look like they are walking in slow motion, to create more of an effect. They have then cut back to a medium/close-up of the singer walking down the street, he doesn't make eye-contact with the camera which may come across like he's singing to someone in the street or walking towards the one he's singing to. The scene then jumps back to a medium/close-up of the girls however this time they are looking up towards something which makes the audience want to find out what they are looking at. They have used another medium/close-up of the singer again, however this time he's looking straight into the camera which makes direct contact with the audience. This time they have used a close-up of the two girls looking directly into the camera, each time they are shown the shot becomes closer and closer. There is a birds eye view, this camera shot is normally seen quite powerful however this time the camera is zooming in extremely fast towards his head which can show the singer has the power in the video. They have used a close-up of something landing on his shoulder to block out everything else happening within the shot. There is a medium shot used however the singer is framed by the car window, us as an audience is looking out at him. 
We see his point of view with an over the shoulder shot, he is looking into the car window and the audience see his reflection in the car window trying to wipe off whatever landed on his shoulder. This gives the audience a sense of power as they are following him. 

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