The music video for Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" consists of seven scenes that were filmed to gather coverage for the editor. Each scene contains different shots that were recorded in multiple takes to provide raw footage. The scenes include Adele singing in an elegant room, a dancer in a military uniform, a drummer under stairs, close ups of glasses filling with water, cups being smashed against a screen, explosions destroying a model city, and a close up of a fresco. There is no obvious narrative to the video.

1. Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Technical analysis

2. Coverage, shots and takes
Rolling In The Deep is made up of SEVEN scenes
Each of the scenes have been used to gather COVERAGE: a
gathering of raw footage to enable the editor to create an
effective cut.
Gathering coverage requires a number of different SHOTS to
be taken.
Several TAKES would have been recorded for each shot.
Some of these shots are performance based (Adele, drummer,
dancer
Others are cutaways (glasses, cityscape, cups).
There is no obvious storyline (narrative) to the video.

3. SCENE 1 – Adele sitting down
1. Close-up 45 degree angle – slight
dolly movement towards
2. Long Shot from side – dolly
movement towards and away
4. Mid shot 90 degree angle – slight
dolly movement towards
3. Mid to long shot, same angle as
close up –dolly movement towards
and away
Adele sat down, elegant room in disarray, lit from side and from above (strip lights).
SHOTS

4. ROUGH LAYOUT OF CAMERAS

5. SCENE 2 – Dancer in powder
Dancer in military uniform in powder – backlit with floodlight, same building as Scene 1
Long shot – with dolly
movement back and forth
Mid shot – light blur, lack of
contrast between light and dark
SHOTS

6. SCENE 3 – Drummer under stairs
1. Close up on bass drum – pan from right to left
2. Mid shot of drummer – slight pan from right to left
3. Long shot – behind the drummer dolly towards
Drummer under the facing the star case – lit by flickering bulb
SHOTS

7. SCENE 4 - Glasses
Close up – high angle, tracking shot
Mid shot - horizontal
Hundreds of glasses, lit from window, fill with water, rippling the beat of the song.
SHOTS

8. SCENE 5 – Smashing cups
Mid shot of a pile of broken crockery/cups
Long shot of crockery and screen above
Close up, low angle of crockery hitting the screen
Cups hurled from an out of shot sources hitting a white screen
SHOTS

9. SCENE 6 – Cityscape
Close-up, pan from right to left
Long shot – horizontal of cityscape
Mid shot when pyrotechnics begin
Model city being destroyed with pyrotechnics
SHOTS

10. SCENE 7 - Fresco
Close-up of a fresco
SHOTS