NM: Technical Analysis

Kodaline - High Hopes

Shot No.	Duration (Seconds)	Camera (movement, angles, and Distance)	Mise En Scene
1	4.0	Long shot, high angle, static	Fields, trees, car, person centre shot. Lighting coming off the left hand side
2	4.0	Mid Shot, Eye line, Static	Car in the centre of the shot, grey colour washed sky. Person walking round the car.
3	5.0	Close up, slow zooming out shot	Person putting a hose pipe into the exhaust of the car.
4	3.0	Close up Static Shot	The end of the hose pipe releasing smoke in to the car.
5	2.5	Close up Static Shot	Man inside the car whilst the car fills us up with smoke around him.
6	3.0	Long Shot, pull focus	Car set in the centre whilst a young woman dressed in white comes in to focus running towards car.
7	3.5	Long Shot, Static Shot	Girl running towards the camera, high key lighting, representation of an angel.
8	2.0	Close up, slow zoom out	Man in car smoke around him, looks out the window of the car.
9	2.0	Close up, static shot	Back of the man's head as he looks around over his shoulder out the back window.
10	4.0	Mid shot, slow ped up with a slight pan from left to right.	Over the shoulder shot, shows shoulder of man, roof of the car and the woman running towards.
11	1.5	Over the shoulder mid shot, static	Return view as the woman looks at the man.
12	1.0	Over the shoulder mid shot, static	Man looks back at woman, she then turns her head to the right signalling for him to look that way.
13	3.0	Extreme Long shot, static, low angle	From bottom of the hill, we see a group of people coming over the top of the hill into the bright colourful picture.
14	2.5	Over the shoulder mid shot, static	Over the shoulder of the woman showing the facial reaction of the man.
15	2.0	Close up, static, low angle shot	Shows the faces of those who have just come over the hill. Distressed facial expressions, low key lighting.
16	2.5	Mid shot, eye line, static	Close up of the man as he keeps looking away from the camera towards the saviours.
17	3.0	Mid shot, knee height, static	Shows the man bending down and pulling the hose out the exhaust pipe, his boots and legs are in the left hand third of the shot and the exhaust to the right.
18	2.0	Eye line shot, static and framed in mid shot	The woman opens the door of the car, with the sun light behind her and gets in.
19	5.0	Close up eye line static shot	The man and woman both sitting in the car, the man then takes the hose and puts it in the back and begins to drive.
20	1.5	Close Up slow panning shot left to right	The men who came over the hill are too late to stop them, shows the anger in their face.
21	3.0	Long shot, eyeline, very steady slow pan left to right.	The car drives away from left to right, shot is slowed to add effect. The picture is bright and beams of sun light are shown across the screen.
22	1.0	Close up , static shot	Camera is on the inside door of the passenger seat where both passengers can be seen.  This shot there is no movement.
23	1.0	Close up , static shot	Camera is on the inside door of the passenger seat where both passengers can be seen, the man pulls out a flask.
24	1.0	Close up , static shot	Camera is on the inside door of the passenger seat where both passengers can be seen, the woman then drinks from the flask.
25	1.0	Close up , static shot	Camera is on the inside door of the passenger seat where both passengers can be seen, the woman makes a puppet out of a sock, they laugh.

 

 

In summary, I have learnt a lot by doing this technically.The video I have chosen was a narrative and so did not feature any shots of the artist and no performance was in volved in the video. On average the shots are between 2-3 seconds. There is a lot of very slight movements of the camera to add effect and different pace too the shots; for example although a shot may only last two seconds it feels as if it is much longer as there might be a steady pan, tilt or ped. The video also uses the rule of thrids to create a sense of space, the shots are either framed with an object in the centre and nothing around it or they are framed with an object in either edge of the screen and show a gap in between, this represents the emptiness of the character.