Monday 1 March 2010

The Maccabees xray




We first see a high angle shot with two men in white body suits, this connotes that they are some form of doctor doing the xray. They have then used lots of different shots of different coloured pins this relates to the different colours that you see in an xray. As when you imagine and xray you imagine a black back ground with lots of illuminous colours. They have linked these shots by using a flashing effect from one shot to the other, this again relates to an xray as in an xray they take lots of shots of the particular part of your body and this makes a big flash. After this they swap the scene of the two men to doing the same thing out side but with the two men wearing normal casual clothes, this could connote the inside and outside of the body. The clip then changes to a close up of a mans tshirt and different clips of red dots in different places.


Through out the whole music video they have have used jump cuts .In order to create this fastforward , jump cut motion it looks like they have taken many video clips and sped them up, like the one of the two men. Then other cases like the pins on the wall and the red dots on the man tshirt, it looks like they have taken camera shots and created an motion.

In the first shot it shows a clear use of cutaways with it starting the two men in suits and then it cuts to the pins then back to the first shot they also realte to each other.

I think in this music video they have tried to inlude a narrative. As it has two parts to it. The first half is with the men laying out the patteren on thr floor then they have used flashe of the pins, but it builds up so the first flash will be of one pin and then it will build up to more pins. In the middle to this it has a fade out clip to black, it then starts the second part with the pins and then includes the tshirt and the red spots this relates to the pins as it is very similar.

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