1. Owl City – Shooting Star
The video opens an
establishing shot.
0:00 – 0:02
0:03-0:05
Shots of buildings which cuts
to Adam and cuts back 0:05-
0.18. Adam starts singing at
0.16.
Cuts to Adam playing
the keyboard again.
Close ups and mid
shots cut back and
forth.
0:28-0:29
Cuts back to Adam
singing.
0:29-0:30
0:30-0:31
Cuts back to
girl and boy.
0:36-:0.38 Building at
0:36, 0:37 cuts in to mid
shot of the people.
0:32-0:35 Cuts
back to Adam.
0:34 Mid shot
from close up.
0:05-0:18
0:18-0:22
Then cuts to this
close up of Adam
playing the keyboard.
0:22-0:27
Cuts to a long shot of a
man laying in bed.
Cuts to a two shot of
a boy and a girl.
2. 0:38-0:44 Fast
paced shots
of Adam,
goes with
beat.
0:45-0:47
0:47-0:51 Mid
shot of
buildings
Cuts back to a mid
shot of a girl with
an edited light/glow
in her chest.
1:01-:1.05
Adam singing
with
keyboard.
0:52 -0:58, Shots of
Adam singing with
keyboard– starts with a
close up, cuts to mid
shot, back to close up,
back to mid shot then
back to close up.
1:05-1:10
1:10-1:18
Adam singing
with keyboard.
1:19-1:20 Cuts to a
person getting off the
bed.
1:34-1.36
1:20-1:34 cuts back from
Adam to people shining then
running
1:36-2:43 Cuts from
Adam singing to people
running.
(2:01-2:04 cuts very
quickly between shots –
in time with the music!)
0:58-1:01
Cuts back to
the two shot.
Cuts to lights
which turn on and
off – goes in time
with the beat.
3. 2:42-2:44
High shot of
people
running.
People start running
past Adam.
Adam gets off his chair
and runs with them, he
gets a light/glow in his
chest too.
Establishing shot of the
lights – then fades to
black.
2:51-3:40
3:41-3:56
3:57-4:02
4. Ellie Goulding - Lights
0:00-0:07
0:07-0:15
It then reveals to be
Ellie, and a long shot.
The camera zooms out
slowly.
It then cuts to a mid
shot and pans
around her slowly.
0:15-0:22
0:22-0:24
It then cuts to a mid shot
of Ellie. The camera
zooms out slowly, then
zooms in slowly.
0:24-0:36
0:41-0:43
This long shot is
showed later on. The
camera also pans
around it.
0:47-0:48
A bit later on this is
showed on screen. The
camera pans around it.
0:52-0:53
This long shot is
showed. The camera
pans around her, just
like the others.
The video starts out black
with a few lights sparkling.
It then cuts to an
extreme long shot.
5. Cuts back and forth between her
singing with a red light and her
singing with green light. When she
says ‘calling’ it switches between
each other.
0:53-0:54
1:03-1:05
The camera
pans around
this long shot.
1:09-1:10
1:13-1:18
1:19-1:24
1:33-1:36
1:36-End
The camera also
pans around this
long shot.
The camera then cuts
to a close up of Ellie
but this time she’s
singing with a purple
tint instead of green.
She then starts playing the drums
shown by a mid shot. The camera
keeps cutting back to her
throughout the rest of the video
after this shot has been showed.
It then cuts to a close
up of Ellie singing with
lights on the screen.
It then cuts to a long shot of
Ellie swinging around a light.
For the rest of the video it
repeats all of the stuff we’ve
seen so far.
6. Bastille – Things we lost in the fire
The video opens up with 2
different establishing shots
to set the scene.
0:00-0:08
0:07-0:15
The camera then
tilts upwards to
reveal lots of
people.
It then cuts to this extreme
long shot of dogs running.
Starts singing at 0:16
It then cuts to a long
shot of a dog on a car.
0:16-0:23 0:39-0:44
0:23-0:39
A man bends to pick
something up. It goes
from a long shot to a close up
shot. The camera tilts upwards
as he’s bringing the bullet up
to look at it.
0:45-1:12
The group of people then start
running past the star. At 1:01- shot
of him singing after they ran past
him. 1:04-1:06 Shots what he’s
holding (bullet).
7. The camera pans around
the room, then follows a
girl as she walks.
1:12-1:29
1:30-1:43
Cuts to a mid shot of him singing. At
1.38 cuts to the girl instead with the
exact same lighting and background.
At 1:43 she fades out.
1:45-1:55 Star
walks to a car
then gets in it.
There’s extremely
low lighting.
Then cuts to a mid shot of a girl walking along
and the car passes her. The star then comes up
behind her. They hug and then she runs away.
2:30-3:22
1:55-:2.30 The car is driving along. On
the way the star gets passed a gun.
When he gets passed it it then cuts to
a shot of him on the road with a black
background looking at the gun while
the car passes him.
2:45-3:22
In the process of the screenshot
before, it also cuts away from that
to see the car swirl around and
then cuts back to them and
repeats.
8. 3:42-3:30 Cuts back
to dogs running in,
then the group of
people running away.
Then cuts to a shot of blood
dripping from a car. The camera
zooms out very slowly.
3:32-3:38
3:30-3:32
3:38-3:49
3:49-3:52
It then cuts back to the same scene
before when the car drives past him. He
drops the gun and first we see the
bullets hitting the floor through a close
up then we see the gun hit the floor.
3:52-4:13
At 3:52 it cuts to a close up
of him singing. At 4:00 it
cuts to this mid/long shot of
him walking in the rain.
Cuts to this close up of the
star singing. Rule of thirds
used.
It cuts back to the shot of the car
but on a straight angle instead,
emphasising the blood.
