1. Analysis Of the Music Video
The music video (Diary of Jane – Breaking Benjamin) contains three distinct
narratives. The first the most traditional is the Band Performing.
The Second Narrative Strand is Jane is her metaphorical Purgatory.
The Third is of Jane’s Brother.
These three narratives are intercut in a non-liner fashion to ensure the diesis is
hiding for the majority of the song. We carefully framed the shots to ensure they
all had a deeper more stylistic interpretation.
2. The screenshot above was framed in that particular way to evoke a feeling of
loneliness, as there is a large amount of dead space around ‘Jane’. As in the
context of the song she is trying to find solace in her unfortunate death. As this
specific shot is intercut with the band performing, which consist of many close-
ups, the isolation is further emphasized, in addition this shot is not static the
camera is slowly zooming out.
We used careful use of Mise-en-scene in the Jane and band sequences to try to
create implicit binary opposites. As she is wearing a dress, which is feminine in
comparison to the suits, the bands are wearing. Unfortunately this perception of
Masculinity is somewhat over shadowed by the metro sexual appearance of the
lead singer. This deterred from the feeling our tried to produce, but it is still
presented just in a lesser form.
The editing of the Music video was a tedious process. The biggest problem was
deciding on the pace of the video, in regards to the cuts. As a group we decided to
make to the opening juxtaposed. As the songs opening is slow and quickly
changes to a quicker beat. The create this effect we followed Andrew Goodwin’s
theory of ‘Thought Beats’, and cut the rapid change in pace with the beat of the
music. This style of ‘Thought Beats’ is used to a lesser extent as the music video
continues. The cuts in the later stages of the song are synched with the lyrics not
the underlining beat. An simple example is the motif we created with ‘Do you like
that?’ the video cuts to a close-up of the singer for the first line to an close-up of
an instrument and back to a close-up of the singer.
The opacity tool has been used extensively throughout the video. During the
editing of video we tried not use the opacity tool on the Band Narrative to try to
keep the band perceived ‘Toughness’, in relation to the Jane and Brother
narrative strands. This tool allowed us to create a dreamlike experience for the
Jane narrative and more passive and time distorted feel for the Brother
narrative.
Due to some less than perfect filming errors, we were left with a huge continuity
error regarding the colour of the drummers seat. We did not have the time to re-
film the band sections. Meaning some creative postproduction effects had to be
implemented. THE CHROMA KEY.
3. Using this colour corrector we changed the colour of the chair, thus eliminating
the error.
