music video analysis

City and Colour – Save Your Scissors

The first shot of this music video is an establishing shot; it then skips into the house where it gives us a long shot of the meat, playing an acoustic guitar. It gradually gets closer until about 14 -15 seconds where it stops it then jumps to a closer shot at about 18 seconds. The mise en scene for the meat looks to be quite poor and or bland, this can be portrayed by the colour of the walls or the attire he is wearing.
At about twenty two seconds it zooms in for a close up shot of the meat, to sow him singing and playing the guitar. It shows us a close up of his hands while he is playing this could be to show people that he actually plays his music and or to show people what chords or notes he plays. This is popular with the type of rock genre/acoustics.
At 41 seconds it shows the meat getting up, and packing his equipment, it then proceeds to show us locations pinned on a map, these pins could represent places they are to travel to or places he is touring two or has already done so.
From 45 seconds he starts tuning his guitar, which shows that he is able to play, and has a certain amount of skill, after this we get a close up shot of the neck of the guitar while he is playing, to show that he is using a different guitar.
At 55 seconds the concept of him using another guitar which is electric is confirmed with a shallow depth of field which shows the guitar in focus and the meat not. At 1 minute and 7 seconds it shows that he is playing another instrument which makes him versatile, also the plaster for when he is playing his guitar, and the tattoo on his knuckles which how that the essence of rock is there. At about 1 minute 15 secs he heads out of his house towards the car, it is as if the person behind the camera is like a person prying on the meat, the meat seems to be quite shy as when there is a shot of him it’s never right in front of his face. At 1 minute 40 secs he is walking upstairs to a band practice, he seems to be the person who gives the actions, this band looks like a heavy metal band or screamo, we can portray this by the amount of tattoo’s each one has and the type. In this video the lyrics don’t necessarily go along side with video. This video is slowly edited to match the beat of the son, however when the beat changes it doesn’t always change to a different part.