ANALYSIS OF A MUSIC VIDEO
Choose a videoclip and analyze it according to the following: Frames, shots, camera angle, character position and principles of composition. You must identify the minute and make a brief comment about what you are identifying. Embed the video clip onto your portfolio.
Song: Kiss me
Singer: Sixpence None the Richer
Published: 1997
- 45º medium shot: in minute 0:14 we can see the woman who isn't in a frontal position nor in a profile position. Also, we can see her from the waist to the face, so it is medium shot.
- Low view: in minute 0:17 we can see low view because the camera angle is under the woman in such way that it isn't in a worm eye view nor in a neutral view.
- Birds eye view: in minute 0:21 we can observe the angle shot almost directly above the subjects. This type of camera angle is also called overhead shot.
- Two / three shot: in minute 0:34 we can see the woman with two men and this type of shot is called two or three shot depending of if there is two or three people.
- Horitzontal framing: in minute 0:41, the camera is in a horitzontal position.
- Harmony: in minute 0:45 we can observe the woman with the men in a lake with a little boat and it feels harmony. This shot was also done from a high view.
- Leading lines: in minute 1:06 appears many lines which are the main subject of the image.
- Extreme close up: in minute 1:27 we can see that it frames a subject very closely, in this case the domino tiles.
- Rule of thirds: in minute 1:59 we can observe that the image describes a basic compositional structure. This image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts.
- Close up: in minute 2:37 we can see the woman very closely. This type of shots are taken from head to neck, as we can observe in the video.