The first shot of this music video is of Michael Bruno (the lead singer), this quickly cuts to a shot of him inside a train playing a guitar with the rest of the band in the background. This means 3 seconds into the video the audience can have established that this is a band not a solo musician. There is then a cut to a wide shot of an officer and a few train passengers standing next to the train but the main focus is on the lady in the background which is established by the red coat she is wearing, there is then a cut to a medium closeup of her as she makes her way past the other people. After this there is another quick cut of a face on wide shot of the band but this only stays for a second as it then cuts back to the lady in red and then again, to the drummer and then back to the lady. This shot is a medium close-up and then cuts to a mid-shot of Michael Bruno and then back to the lady establishing a connection between the two. The next shot is of the waste down of the guitarist of the band. The quickness of the edits and the speed at which the slight narration is happening suggest that the lead singers' character is trying to reach the lady. There is then another shot looking down on the drummer which quickly cuts to the band as a whole again. As the shot pans we can properly establish that the band are on the train that the narrative is happening on. Again there is another close-up of the drummer. This may be because as he is at the back of the band, it is hard to see him with the other members in front of him in a shot of the whole band. At 19 seconds the lyrics begin and we are shown a medium close-up of Michael Bruno (as the singer) but the rest of the band are still visible in the background of the shot. Although most of the shots are focusing on the lead singer, most of them show the band in the background so it isn't symboling that Bruno has a greater importance. For the first time at 41 seconds there is then a medium close-up on the guitarist on the left followed by the blonde guitarist. There is then a series of medium close-ups on each band member still with the cutting to the narration. The medium close-up is probably the chosen shot to show the instrument being played as well as the member himself. At 1:03 there is almost an extreme close-up on Michael Bruno's face. This is followed by several pans around the band and the cutting to the narration which now includes the rest of the band sitting in seats giving the lead a funny look. At 1:55 there is a medium close-up of the drummer spinning the drum sticks around and then at 2:05 the guitarist in shades comes forward to the position right next to the lead singer, this establishes the respect the band have for each other. Although there is a narration going on in the video there seems to be a lot of shots of the band and not just of the lead singer, camera time seems to be more or less even between the members as the rest are in the background of shots of Bruno. The last bit of narration is the lead singer watching as the train pulls away and then there is a cut to a shot of the whole band stopping in sync as the video ends. My opinions on this video were that the camera time was evenly distributed which is good because it wouldn't cause arguments within the band for example; the band thinking that Michael Bruno was the only important thing. In our music video we are going to give the most camera time to 'Ocky', the lead singer but the rest of the band should still be given a fair amount.
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