Analysing a Music Video of the same Genre of my 30 second video

The video i have decided to review is sam smith - stay with me. I have chosen this because it is the same genre of music video as the 30 second video i will create and i feel that the artist is also quite similar to the artist i have chosen.

The first thing i am going to talk about is camera shots. The camera shots in this video is set more so to one specific thing and that is close ups of the singer. I think that the reason this music video has used this as its primary shot is to get the emotion of the singer across better as he is showing a lot of emotion on his face and therefore allowing the audience to see this and relate with him.

The next thing is editing. The main editing techniques used in this video was just simple cuts and the occasional fade from shot to shot and i think this is because it wasnt trying to be fancy or overly happy like the song is trying to portray it as so i think that the editing was done well due to the fact that it relates the music video to the song well.

In general the mise-en-scene was quite dull and grey, I think that the reason for this was because the video was quite sad and dull and therefore the video was managing to link with the song very well and help the audience understand the song a bit better.

In this video, the artist is represented to be a quite sad and depressed character at the time but it is also shown that he isnt always like this and it is just a mood or a phase in his life. This is shown through what he is saying in the song but it is demonstrated via what can be seen in the video and how he is acting.

I think that the audience will feel quite moved and emotional towards sam smith with this song as he is truly showing his emotions in the song and the video is allowing him to show this and therefore it creates a connection with the audience allowing them to understand how he feels and maybe feel the same way too.

An audience might watch this video to understand the true meaning of this song and undertsnad what is meant behind the lyrics. It could also be watched to help people who enjoy the song and can feel an emotional connection with it feel even closer by learning even more about the song and how what is being sung is expressed in a visual way via sam smith.

I think that Goodwins theory can be applied to this video as due to the genre it was meaning to be a video expressing the emotion of the star and he did this by being in the video and promoting himself but also interacting with the audience and expressing his emotion to them.