VID ANALYSIS: Blossoms - Charlemagne Shot Types

Possible Influences:

• Effects
• Camera movement
• Smokey room
• Possibly bands style

Initial Analysis:

The music video I chose to analyse was Blossoms - Charlemagne

Genre: Alternative/ Indie rock - Dance

The video is a mix of Performance and narrative, although the narrative hasn't got much of a story too it as it is mainly shots of men playing cards. Having a performance is part of Andrew Goodwin's genre signifier of a rock video.

Whilst there is some performance of the song, it is extremely limited, it mainly comprises of the main singer of blossoms singing. There isn't any shot of the whole band performing although the whole band can be seen. The shots of the main singer are mainly MCU shots or CU.

Lyrics

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Abbreviations:

DA- Dutch Angles

CU-Close Up

MCU- Medium Close up

MS- Medium Shot

MLS: Medium Long shot

LS: Long Shot

OTS: Over the shoulder shot

GS: Group Shot

2S: 2 Shot

Shot Types:

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Shot types blossoms charlemagne from James Clinnick

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Further Analysis

87 shots in 171 seconds

1 shot every 1.96 seconds

Number of each main shot:

CU: 37

MS: 23

LS:13

Through the whole video, there isn't a single stationary shot, camera is always panning, rotating or zooming.

GEN CONVENTIONS 5: Cinematography + Editing

Guns N' Roses - November Rain

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The video opens with a close up of a man (Axl Rose) extinguishing a ciggy on his table and takes

some pills, the close up shows clearly the contents of the table and gives a slight idea to the viewer as to what kind of person he is. However because of the height of the camera angle there is narrative enigma as to who it is.

The lighting throughout these shots has a blue color correction, it gives a cold feeling to the shots which matches the content of drugs

 Part of the video is set in a large concert hall, the first shot we see of this is a large establishing shot, it looks over the hall and shows the scale. The orange color correction is a complete contrast to the previous shots.

 There are multiple shots of the band, these include, close ups, medium close ups and medium shots

 These shots are used to show a lot about the band, they show there clothing, props and setting. Again they are shown with the blue light however because the lighting is darker it doesn't have the same cold feel

The setting now changes so the common convention of a extreme long shot, establishing shot is seen

Throughout the video there are multiple uses of cross-fade transitions, these are heavily used and the transition lengths are quite long

Here slash can be seen with a low range of focus, he is completely blurred out and out of focus.

Here is a clever example of a use of special effects in editing, the room Axl Rose is sat in