1. Pantera – 5 Minutes Alone
The music video is kept in a really dense, dark atmosphere with a lot of close-ups and detail shots
that allow the viewer to feel the closeness of each action,
almost like he was being inside it. It creates a sense of
intimacy for the viewer and builds a relationship between
the artist and fan which after watching such kind of video
might be more likely to reflect on the atmosphere and
understand lyrics of it better. The often demand of the
record companies to show a lot of close-ups of the main
artist could be a suggestion here. However, it is quite
common for Pantera’s music videos to be focused on the
performance of the band which in this case makes up
almost the entire video. It is very powerful and has strong
emphasis on any sort of movement. The guitar close-ups,
recorded at a variety of angles are very important in this
audio-visual, showing enhancing the power of their groove
metal.
The editing and mise-en-scene took a big part in creating Top: Close-up of the vocalist, bottom: detail shot of the
that dynamic fell of this video as well. Fast cut montage is guitar
used here extensively, especially in parts when the track is simply quicker and more energetic. In
those particular bits of this video audio and visual are working perfectly because the quick montage,
often enhanced by the flashing light create such fast and intriguing atmosphere it is hard to stop
watching the video even if you are not a fan of this type of music. The often blending of shot into the
next one creates the sense of continuity, very important in
this six minute video. It is well mixed with the fast cut
scenes mentioned before and extends the range of
camerawork in this video which makes it more engaging.
The video and band itself are a very good example of heavy
metal genre style. The obscure/dark atmosphere is typical
for heavy metal music videos, for example, in this video,
the background is pitch black almost throughout the whole
Multiple blending of shots
video. It is almost entirely made of the performance shots
what is also quite common for videos of this genre. Apart from the vocalist, all of the band members
have very long hair – another connotation to rock/heavy metal culture.
We feel inspired by the camerawork, editing and mise-en-scene of this video and are planning to
include few ideas from it in our project. Our plan is also to create a long, six minutes video and ‘5
Minutes Alone’ gives us a lot of instruction on how to keep it. We have decided that we will
definitely use a lot of shot-to-shot blending in our music video and we will try our best to achieve ‘5
Minutes Alone’ quality in this particular part of editing. Also, we planned to use a lot of guitar close-
ups in our audio-visual and this video shows the variety of angles when recording such shots so it will
definitely be helpful.