The document summarizes the mise-en-scene, editing, and camera techniques used in the Parkway Drive music video "Dark Days". It notes that the casual clothing, lack of other people, and instrumental props are meant to give a live feeling. Unlike other heavy metal videos, it uses varied locations that reflect the lyrics but keeps the editing simple. The camerawork features mid shots and long shots instead of close-ups to decrease intensity while the audio remains intense.

1. Parkway Drive - Dark Days

2. Mise En Scene
• The casual clothing used is used to possibly indicate a normal day for them and
no planning into the video therefore giving this live feeling to the music video.
• This music video does not contain any females or anyone outside the band. This
further adds to this feeling of making this video seem live and therefore more
exciting for this particular audience.
• The Instrumental props in the video are used to give the viewer this sense of the
music video being live and therefore more lively and enjoyable for this particular
genre. This is very conventional and used all across the heavy metal/rock
genre(s).
• The locations used can be seen as special and well thought about. They are not
particularly conventional to this genre but reflect what is being spoken through
the lyrics. For my own project, I hope to give a similar effect while keeping the
locations as simple as possible and limited.

3. Editing
• Unlike other music videos of this genre, the live feeling is not given to
a high stage and editing has been used and can be noticed. The
editing has been used to give the viewer a beautiful image of the
world while keeping the music (audio) very intense.

4. Camera
• Unlike a typical music video of this genre, shots are not close-ups but
rather mid shots, long shots and extreme long shots. This is
particularly to decrease intensity and show more of a calm view to
the user while playing extremely intense audio.
• Unlike other typical music videos of this genre, a variety of locations
have been used while keeping a small amount of camera shots.