Music Video Analysis

The Script

Breakeven

This video uses similar effects as to the ones I have seen in other videos I have analysed. They have used slow motion shots for effect and I think that this genre is where slow motion is most effective, because lyrically the songs usually have an emotional meaning which can be portrayed well through slow motion. This is also portrayed for the darker toned mise-en-scene (e.g. costume, location, lighting). The editing is done mostly off the beat so it isn't as noticeable throughout the video.

The use of both black and white shots and colour shots is something that I haven't seen much of so far, but it is one of the main features of this video. It helps to identify the past and the present. The use of colour shots on the narrative which depicts the past is effective because it shows happier times which the colour represents. There are also more close up shots used with the two of them to represent their closeness. The black and white shots for the present show the colour (relationship) leaving his life. There are also more mid shots and long shots to show his loneliness/isolation.

Out of all the videos I have looked at I think the whole concept of this best fits the song and tells the story through shots, lighting and colour the best.