Research- Review on a previous student's video

Mustafa, Nick, Poppy, Charon from 283goswell on Vimeo.

I have looked at many previous student's music videos and found that this one really stood out to me. It definitely looks like a music video to me because it flows very well.

The costume and the performer's acting complemented the song and the video itself. The video is something I would expect from a song like that one.

The camera was static at times but that was because the majority of the shots were on Poppy's face. However when the camera was moving it moved accordingly to the moving image and to the beat of the music. The variety of shots accompanied the beat since it was lively and upbeat. There were repetitions of shots such as: close-ups and this is conventional for pop music videos to do, their aim is for the audience to have a clear memory of the artist.

Low and high angles were used a lot as well to make the video visually more appealing and to engage us audience.

I thought that when the part "if you could only see" comes in, Poppy opens her eyes on time with the music.

The location appears to have been carefully planned for e.g. I am aware that this music is pop-rock and many pop-rock music videos are often set at parks, forests therefore it has clearly followed the generic conventions.

There weren't many transitions nor special effects that I could capture. The video is lip synced fantastically, it was as if poppy was literally singing. I couldn't capture a moment where the audio and video were not edited properly together. What stood out to me was the fact that the flow and continuity still managed to fit in strongly with the several fast cuts of different camera angles and shots.

Regarding to Goodwin's theory I think this is a disjuncture video because the video doesn't match the video.