Music Video Shot Analysis

1. Music Video

2. The music video starts with a Flashback from the last
video as this is a carry on video it’s a montage using a
range of shots an angles, from close ups to wide shot of
Brendon running into a white mist where Emperor’s New
Clothes starts. This video start very over exposed as
Brendon walks into frame, the lighting is very heaven like,
what it is meant to suggest to the audience, this using a
shallow depth of field as there is very distinctive outline
around Brendon even though the background is
completely white. The lights are then cuts out as Brendon
fall down, the white shirt that he is wearing brings him
out from the background and make him the sole subject
of the frame as he falls to the floor, this shots is repeated
in a mid shot and a close up. From the close up Brendon
continues to fall as the camera stays in the same position
till he can’t be seen no more, Brendon’s white shirt is the
only reason that he stand out from the background since
he is falling into complete darkness, this would have used
a fast shutter speed to ensure that he is in focus as he fall
but a high aperture to keep the frame quite dark.

3. This next sequence in the video is all done in one shot and smoothly follows Brendon
around as he turns into the devil. This sequence starts with a close up of Brendon still
as himself, it done with a shallow depth of field, having just Brendon in focus and the
background out of focus, creating atmosphere and leaving the audience in suspense
as they still don’t fully know where he has landed. Through out this one shot sequence
the 180* line is broken several times, however the camera is moving with Brendon so
the audience can follow along with what is happening and isn’t confused the 180*
brake. This one shot sequence is done very cleverly as Brendon is going through his
transformation into becoming the Devil, it uses when lights are flashed to cut and add
a new aspect to Brendon’s evilness completing the transformation, however, the
audience is only see one shot, moving around. This one shot sequence is ended when
it show talking skulls on the floor, and instead of having the shot flow from one head
to the other is cut and pan down, to then pan from the top of frame down to then
reveal the next talking head.
The video them moves into a montage of the setting which Brendon has just fallen into establishing where his is, and showing
glimpses of the final Devil which Brendon transforms into at the end of the video. This uses a range of close up so that its doesn't
give away too much of the setting before the song has started and the story has begun.

4. The video then cuts from the talking head to Bredon’s full transformed body, with wings and devil horns, this shot uses a very shallow depth of
field as the wings just behind Brendon’s head are out of focus yet his face is in full focus. This sequence uses a range of close ups, mid shot and
wide because they want to show the audience the full extent to Brendon’s transformation, and everything that he has become. There is a very
harsh backlight behind Brendon bringing him out from the background even more than the shallow depth of field is. The sequence of shots is very
different from what it just was, this uses a large number of shot and cuts then together at a very fast pace, however, the last sequence was one
long shot, this is again to emphasis on Brendon’s change into the Devil, as when he was himself it was one shot, yet now he’s the Devil it is many
shots, cut together. The ending to the video is Brendon with the same harsh back light and shallow depth of field, yet a very dominate red light is
being shone onto his face creating even more of a contrast between with white light behind him and the red light on his face.

5. The point to this video was to give the audience visuals along with the song, the song tells a story and the music video
explains the story and gives beautiful visuals to go along with it.
If this was to be filmed multi-cam it would have taken away from the beautiful one shot sequence as it would have used
more cut throughout the whole video instead of just at the end when Bredon finally become the devil.
Using single cam definitely saves Panic! At The Disco money as they don’t need to pay for more crew and equipment, this
also allow them to create such a beautiful video with set and makeup as they would have more money to spend on this
because of what they’ve saved from using one camera.
This video uses a lot of techniques for a music video, as it wouldn’t have needed to use things like talking heads or
interviews because the video is solely based around the song and the progression of Brendon as he turns into the Devil.