LT - Technical Analysis

Interpol - Slow Hands
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0.00 - CU over the shoulder of a man in a suit walking away from the camera.
0.02 - ECU of a microphone with out of focus face behind it.
0.04 - ECU of a guitar string being played.
0.05 - BCU of a man's eye on one side of his face.
0.07 - Dissolve into a shot of a shiny grey floor reflecting lights, pans up to a LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
0.12 - Dissolve into the same microphone ECU shot, this time we see the mouth moving.
0.13 - MS of singer slighlty off centre singing into microphone with a bright light to the right behind him.
0.16 - M-LS showing the main singer on the right playing his guitar with the drummer in the left of the frame.
0.19 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
0.21 - MS of singer slighlty off centre singing into microphone with a bright light to the right behind him.
0.22 - M-LS showing the main singer on the right playing his guitar with the drummer in the left of the frame, with some kind of debris blowing across the floor behind them.
0.25 - MS of singer slighlty off centre singing into microphone with a bright light to the right behind him.
0.26 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
0.29 - CU of another band member's face looking away from the camera.
0.33 - LS from above the band looking directly down on them playing their instruments.
0.35 - MS of singer slighlty off centre singing into microphone with a bright light to the right behind him.
0.36 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
0.38 - MS of singer slighlty off centre singing into microphone with a bright light to the right behind him.
0.40 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line, but one of them has broken the line and throws something on the floor in the foreground, in front of the band, and it smashes in slow motion on the floor.
0.47 - ECU of out of focus microphone with an in-focus face behind it.
0.48 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line with some broken bits of debris in the foreground, which begins to move together as if by magic to form three boxes which fly up into the air.
0.53 - Unfocused shot which is hard to make out, just of a flash of light.
0.54 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
0.56 - M-LS showing the main singer on the right playing his guitar with the drummer in the left of the frame, the three boxes flying past them up towards the ceiling.
0.57 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
0.58 - M-LS showing the other guitarist on the last playing his guitar with the drummer to the right of the frame.
1.01 - M-LS showing the main singer on the right playing his guitar with the drummer in the left of the frame with bits of broken objects behind them coming towards each other.
1.02 - ECU of a microphone with out of focus face behind it.
1.04 - M-LS showing three band members playing their instruments.
1.06 - ECU of an out of focus microphone with a face behind it singing.
1.09 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
1.11 - M-LS in slow motion showing the guitarist on the right jumping up and playing a chord then coming back down.
1.14 - ECU of an out of focus microphone with a face behind it singing.
1.15 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
1.19 - MS in rewind slow motion of a man beginning to spit.
1.21 - ECU of a microphone with an out of focus face behind it singing.
1.22 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
1.24 - MS in rewind slow motion of the same man spitting out a stream of water.
1.26 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
1.28 - MS of a pen dropped to the floor, bouncing back and the lid coming off.
1.30 - LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.


Conclusion - in looking at this video, which is of a style very similar to the video which we want to make, I have found a number of patterns which are conventional of this genre. Many shots are repeated over and over again throughout the video, the most frequent repetitions being the following;

- ECU of a microphone with out of focus face behind it.
- LS showing the band playing their instruments in a line.
- M-LS showing the main singer on the right playing his guitar with the drummer in the left of the frame.
- MS of singer slighlty off centre singing into microphone with a bright light to the right behind him.

These are the kind of performance shots which we should be using when making our video. I also noticed that each shot only lasts on average two or three seconds with interjecting longer slow-motion shots, which is something to bear in mind when making our video if we want to keep to the conventions. I think the most important thing to gain from this video is that the director has used a variety of different shot sizes and angles intercut quickly with one another, and so we need to ensure that when we do our shoot we take lots of different shots eg. CU, ECU, M-LS, LS etc., and take them from various different angles.