Music Video Analysis

I chose to do the music video from Dragonforce which is a British power metal band. In this video there were a lot of visual tools used. First off the camera is in an extreme close up of the drummer's sticks hitting the drum then the shot moves over to the singer keeping the same extreme close up shot. The shot then moves out to a medium shot of the other band members and then moves to a close up shot of the singer where only his shoulders and his face are seen helping us to get a clear expression from his face and to give the effect he is the main guy cause the camera is focused in on him. Throughout most of the video the shot is kept at a medium shot in order to have clear balance between the subjects and their environment. Later the camera shot moves out to the wide shot to get the whole band in the frame as well as their environment that they are playing in which appears to be a land being torn apart by alien spacecraft. You also see the use of eye line where the band members begin to look up in the sky and then in the next frames you see the spacecrafts that they were looking at in the previous shot. There are also a few spots where you get a low angle shot but most of the shots are eye level. Some of the visual components that were noticeable were a mix between deep and flat space, good use of warm reds and orange which helps to support the songs fast and urgent pace and can also be seen as causing friction. Later on when the two main guitar players go against each other in a video game of themselves playing their solos you get the sense of tension between the two players and to help recognize that tension you see them each playing their guitars on top of large rocks with a canyon separating them. Use of split screen within the music video also creates a line between the two players which helps create tension and show that they are competing to see who plays their solos better. Shot within shot is also used to get a close up of guitar player strumming guitar while at the same time you see the whole person as well. Finally the overall tone of the video appeared to have a low key to mid key where the shots had some shadow but it was not too dark that you could not tell what was going on.