Our Music Video Explained

Here we have a close up of the artist with a background of the area we filmed in, we pan across this area again in our video. we wanted to include the red guitar strap across his shoulder as its a feature that is used without the video. With all neutral colours within the area and the clothing the red strap coincides well. It includes the titles of our music video. This would only likely to be seen on TV on music channels such as MTV whereas music videos on youtube have the title at the top. 

We cut to this shot three times in the music video. There are various times in-between choruses that Pete play the guitar. We wanted used this close up of the guitar to emphasis the guitar being played. Jack (the artist) didn't know how to play guitar and after attempting playing the guitar we figured it would look better in Fraser (the cameraman) played the guitar as he knows how to play the guitar. This is why the correct notes are being played as is on the song.

Here we are using the ambient lighting coming through the trees. We also use a low angle shot as an establishing shot to show the viewer we're in a woodland area. Again you can see the red guitar strap we emphasised at the beginning and shows up well in the neutral colours.

Another cutaway we use is of Jack smoking. We use this technique to take some of the focus off the singer in between versus where lip syncing isn't needed. We are also following similar conventions of Pete Doherty as he is often seen smoking on both music videos and in public.

Here we have a shot expressing the lighting affects we could use within the area we were filming. You can see the sunny weather outside was being blocked buy the shed with a crack in shining through the cigarette smoke.

Here we are also showing off the area we filmed in. We filmed in an old army barracks from World War Two, we tried showing this with the zoom on the 'Enquires' sign on the wall.

In one of the buildings there was an old burnt out car so we thought we had to show this in our video in a cutaway using a smoking shot. As he's sitting down you can't see the red guitar strap although you can see the guitar by Jack resting on the car.

A shot we use in the middle of the song is of Jack walking into the darkness but only gets to there so you can still see him. We then cutaway onto another shot.

Our final shot is of Jack final disappearing into the darkness whilst the final parts of the song are being played. This works really well as we had lip synced the whole way through the video until the end, as the music fades away so does the artist.