Analysis of Rock music 2

This is another good example of a popular rock song. It is quite different to the usual loud hard hitting rock, and is more emotional but nevertheless not as good as usual rock music. This has a different take on rock music and the video is telling a story. The song is  a bit more slower and the shots last a little longer than normal but it matches well because the song is slow. The lip syncing is accurate however there isnt as much lip syncing shown than normal.

Cinematography

This video has a mixture of shot types ranging from long shots of the band singing to mid shots of them with the camera looking up at them creating a high angle shot and also close ups of the main singer. Most of the shots in the video are framed in the centre of the shot however do have a few positioned to either side. From the establishing shot we can see that it is set in a space ship centre with the band singing and the people watching it on the tv.

Mise en scene

The location seems to be at a Nasa centre. We can tell this by the beginning where the earth is shown coming closer to us and the band playing on stage in the Nasa centre. Through the facial expressions and body language of the singers we can tell that it is quite an emotional song perhaps dedicated to the film armageddon and the people of Nasa and all the families of the people who are part of it. Again like the usual rock conventions, each singer has long hair and is wearing black or dark clothing.

Editing

In this video there is very little editing in terms of dissolves, fade outs and jump cuts, however there is a lot of cutting between shots and shot reverse shots showing the emotion and body language of the people, also some visual effects are shown from the film like where the man and woman hugging. This makes a good music video as it is telling a story as well and is showing clips of a very popular movie and the music goes well with the emotional film.

Sound

The sound is all diegetic sound and has no sound effects or non diegetic sounds in it. The music sound itself is very slow and quite emotional and creates quite sympathetic mood. The fact that violins are also used in this music video also backs up the fact that it is quite emotional because we normally associate violin music with emotional or romantic music.