The Naked And Famous - Young Blood
1.) How do the visuals respond to the music?
Within the cinematography the shots appear to be faster in the quick tempo parts of the song. For example in the chorus there is is a part where the music slows down and you hear an echo of the lead singers voice and the visual goes into a slow motion shot.
There is a part in the song (bridge) which goes very 'reverby' and atmospheric and a sort of tie dye effect (shown below) shows up within the visual. That's a good link between how the audio determines the visuals and how it's expressed.
The whole video is punctuation with random spurts of fast visual to compliment the fast paced audio. Also slow visual and slow motion audio (like in the example above).
There is a part in the song (bridge) which goes very 'reverby' and atmospheric and a sort of tie dye effect (shown below) shows up within the visual. That's a good link between how the audio determines the visuals and how it's expressed.
The whole video is punctuation with random spurts of fast visual to compliment the fast paced audio. Also slow visual and slow motion audio (like in the example above).
How do the visuals emerge from a process of synaesthesia? Ie. How have the sounds been made visual?
There is not many direct links between the audio and visual as the video is very disjunctive and the shots don't match the lyrics. However, the one thing i did draw from this particular video is that it's a very 'feel good' song, and the shots are very much framed around people having a 'good time'.
2.) To what extent does it follow a narrative?
This video does not follow a specific story line with the audio, the song is framed around lover and there are a few couples in a few disjunctive shots. The lyrics do not determine the visual, therefor are hidden behide the visual. But to me I prefer video's that are shot extremely well and are slightly off the point.
What kind of image is the star presenting?
The stars David Beadle, Thom Powers, Aaron Short, Jesse Wood and Alisa Xayalith are trying to pressent a youthful image and portray the self-explanatory title young blood
3.) How are mise en scene, editing used in the video – are there any significant features worthy of comment and why are they used?
- The mise en scene is very randomized in this video, there are over 50+ background and hundreds of props. It does not follow a particular theme apart from this year book and strong explosive colored effect. It would be almost near impossible to recreate.
- In editing they have edited a lot of shots in time with the drummers bass drum. Which is a clever way of finding where to cut the shot to a different shot. It also moves with the emotion of the video (ei. half timed audio has slow motion shots).
4.) In conclusion - this video is very disjunctive and unattached from the audio. A mass of different and randomized shots.
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