Analysing Videos - Bastille Pompeii

I looked at the music video for Pompeii by Bastille. It is there most famous song and as we are using a song by them for our video it is necessary we see how they convey their songs through film.

Firstly, they have used a title in their video. They have used a bold font incorporating their logo and the distinctive triangular A. They have added it over the image and not over a black screen as some artists do. In our video we will use a title like this at the beginning of our video to introduce the song.

The locations used are often urban and worn looking buildings and streets and lots of the video is filmed in cloudy weather or at dusk to add a sombre effect as the music is often about serious topics and bright sunshine would not be appropriate. In our video we will look for locations similar to this and also the weather and time it is filmed in.

However in contrast to this they use quite unique spectacular settings such as these which adds more contrast to the video. In our video we could use large natural locations like this by going to the beach or Northumberland.

In this scene an action match is used when the singer/protagonist walks down the stairs. We will recreate this using different streets and urban settings in our video to show the passage of time.

The pace changes in the video and this is shown by using a handheld camera to track the protagonist running through the city. This contrasts to the steady long takes at the start of the video and keeps the viewers interest as the story builds to the climax. In our video we will try and match this change of pace.