Post 3b music video analysis 2
- 1. Music Video Analysis Video 2: Saint Raymond – Fall At Your Feet Callum Burrows (born 30 March 1995) better known by his stage name Saint Raymond, is a singer-songwriter from Nottingham. Saint Raymond grew up in Bramcote, Nottingham. He took the 'Saint Raymond' moniker from the street that he grew up on and his Grandad's name. He began his career playing small gigs and open mic nights around Nottingham before gaining popularity in 2013 when he released his self penned, debut extended play "Escapade" on Gabrielle Aplin's Never Fade Records. Escapade featured heavily in the iTunes album chart upon it's release and the lead track Fall At Your Feet promoted as iTunes Single of the Week.
- 2. Camera Work – At the beginning of the Saint Raymond – Fall At Your Feet song we have the same convention that has been in most of the music videos that I have looked at, the singer here is holding a guitar the strumming of the guitar matches that that we here playing. This is done as it helps the viewer match the Action on the screen. We also see the camera work matching the lyrics in the song in the middle of the song, ‘round and round we just keep going’, we have a shot of Callum and the girl at either side of a tree, the camera is then panning around and around the tree as the song plays this line. Throughout the video the camera I mainly on him, we see a few shots here and there of the girl but mostly of him, this is to suppress the female gaze where the females watching the video will want to see more of Callum as his audience will be majority female. We only have the shots on the girl at specific points in the song e.g. ‘you can have it all’ this has been done as at that specific point the song is directly aimed at here. Editing – From the start we have the cutting rate witch is quite slow, it cuts between the shots of Callum singing with his guitar and shots of him with the girl in the narrative section of the video. This song isn't the fastest song, as we reach the faster parts of the song the speed in witch each section has been cut increases meaning there is less time between each shot. Within this editing we have close ups, extreme long shots of both of them. The main shot that is used is a medium close up as this is that shot that contains his guitar and the main part of him. The only time we have longer shots is either when they are trying to get both of the people in the shot or when an over the shoulder shot has been used. The shots vary but with every shot changed there is a cut in the video, almost trying to make sure we are aware that they are changing and moving around in the video.
- 3. Saint Raymond – Fall At Your Feet Sound – The main thing about the video is the music and the actual song. This is why we have the music playing over it, the voice is matched by the mouthing of the artist in the video. In some videos we see the video action and it is sometimes matched in the song and we here the actually video in the sound of the music. I feel as though the narrative is a little lost due to not hearing anything about the video. The typical convention of a music video is that the music matches to the singing of the song (the artist). Mise en Scene – through the video we have a narrative that is following the relationship between the girl and the boy. This gives us two parts to the video, the narrative part and the part where we see the artist singing to the music. Normally there two parts of it are in different locations and have different MES but in this video we have them both in the same scene. Some of the sections overlap and some of them are totally different. The narrative side of the video shows and reiterates exactly what is going on in the lyrics of the song. All of the video is set in a field, along a walkway and around a tree. I think that this has been done so that the main focus is on him and her and that nothing within the scene is distracting the viewer from what is actually happening. I feel as though some the elements from this video will be good to use and take from our video.