DW - Technical Analysis

I have chosen to analyse the first verse of this song, from 0:25 - 0:43 seconds. 

#	Distance	Camera and Movement	Mise-En-Scene	Time (Sec)	Member
1.	CU	Handi-cam shot, Mike Kerr positioned on left third singing into microphone.	Every shot has a degrading celluloid film overlay, making the shots look crackly. Low key lighting, Kerr is more of a silhouette.	2	Mike Kerr
2.	MCU	Handi-cam shot, Mike Kerr positioned in the middle of the shot singing into microphone.	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	1	Mike Kerr
3.	MLS	Handi-cam shot, Ben Thatcher positioned on right third playing the drums. He is out of focus.	Low key lighting, Thatcher is more of a silhouette.	0.1	Ben Thatcher
4.	MCU	Handi-cam shot, Thatcher positioned in the middle of the shot playing the drums. He is out of focus. Slow motion.	Thatcher is a silhouette, however wall behind him is fairly well lit.	2	Ben Thatcher
5.	ECU	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	0.1	Mike Kerr
6.	MCU	(SAME AS SHOT #2)	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	1	Mike Kerr
7.	MCU	Handi-cam shot, Kerr positioned on left third, head banging.	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	0.1	Mike Kerr
8.	CU	(SAME AS SHOT #1) Jump Cut into shot #9	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	1	Mike Kerr
9.	CU	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	0.5	Mike Kerr
10.	MLS	Handi-cam shot, Thatcher positioned on left third playing the drums.	Low key lighting, drum kit is lit up however Thatcher is more of a silhouette.	2	Ben Thatcher
11.	MLS	Handi-cam shot of black, Kerr emerges shaking his head in slow motion.	Low key lighting, background is a solid black, however Kerr’s hair is well lit.	3	Mike Kerr
12.	MLS	(SAME AS SHOT #4)	Low key lighting, he is clearly visible however the poor focus makes him feel distant.	1	Ben Thatcher
13.	MCU	Handi-cam shot, Mike Kerr’s bass guitar positioned in the middle of the shot. He is out of focus.	Low key lighting, the bass is lit up however Kerr is more of a silhouette.	0.1	Mike Kerr
14.	ECU	Handi-cam shot. Kerr’s chin/beard and microphone in top left third. Thatcher’s cymbal in bottom left. Focus is on Kerr.	Low key lighting, Kerr is a silhouette. Thatcher is not visible, but his cymbal is lit up.	0.5	Mike Kerr
15.	MCU	(SAME AS SHOT #4)	(SAME AS SHOT #12)	1	Ben Thatcher
16.	MCU	Handi-cam shot, Thatcher positioned in the right hand third of the frame, playing the drums, with Kerr standing over him in the background.	Low key lighting. Both the band are shown to be silhouettes, with a yellow washed wall behind them. The celluloid film overlay is noticeable intensified.	1	Ben Thatcher Mike Kerr
17.	CU	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	1	Mike Kerr
18.	MCU	(SAME AS SHOT #16)	(SAME AS SHOT #16)	0.1	Ben Thatcher
19.	CU	Handi-cam shot. Snare drum being hit in left hand third.	Low key lighting around drum, flood lights seen in the background creating a bright wash.	1	Ben Thatcher
20.	CU	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	(SAME AS SHOT #1) However, back wall is much brighter, going into chorus.	1	Mike Kerr
21	CU	(SAME AS SHOT #1)	(SAME AS SHOT #1) goes back to very dark background.	1	Mike Kerr
22	CU	(SAME AS SHOT #19)	(SAME AS SHOT #19)	0.5	Ben Thatcher
23	MLS	Shot of Kerr in centre of shot.	Extremely low key lighting. Hard to make out Kerr in the centre.	0.5	Mike Kerr

I chose to focus on 'Out of the Black' by Royal Blood as it is a performance video. After completing my technical analysis, it is clear that Mike Kerr gets prevalence over Ben Thatcher, being that he is the singer and the front man of the group.

There is also a very fast cutting rate in the video, with some shots being only a fraction of a second long. This is something that has been common in other videos we have looked at, so we will try and experiment with.

Slow motion is also something we have seen in other videos as well as this one, and we ourselves used slow motion in our Brighton reccie video, when we shot at 50fps. We are going to try and incorporate this into our music video.

The distorted celluloid film overlay is something that we are also willing to try as a group, as it adds to the grungy style of that band, and also the reckless nature of our song.