Alice Collins Media studies A2 Blog - 1229

Thursday, 18 September 2014

A2 media music videos - Rather be

Rather Be originally by Clean Bandit is a love song about wanting to be with their partners and not with anyone else. The original video and this interpretation of the song are very different which is a good thing as they stayed as far away as possible from the original.

The video is a flash back. It starts with the boy and girl together about to kiss (which we see also at the end of the video) and the girl receives a text from the boyfriend saying that he's ending it with her. This then leads to all the flashbacks of the good times they had together. She lip-syncs part of the lyrics but the scenes in which she is standing in the field you can easily tell how uncomfortable she is lip-syncing and so it looks like a very bad attempt. The other scenes in which she's in front of a white backdrop her lip-synching improves and she doesn't look so stiff and uncomfortable. The third set we see a white sheet spattered with paint and the couple are being all very lovely and romantic and play fighting. There is clear continuity through out the video but very little in terms of effects to make the video stand out more. The only scene in which effects are used are the scenes where she is singing in front of a back drop and the shot changes colours.

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