Tuesday 20 September 2011

Textual Analysis of Tom Baxter - 'Better'



Cinematography

The clip starts with a close of two people kissing each other; it is almost black and white. Then the next shot
is of Tom playing the guitar it is a mid shot, he is all black. Then it cuts back to the shot of the two people kissing and it is still really black and white. When it comes back to Tom the light is switch on and he is lit up, it is a mid shot through this. Then there is a close up of two people holding hands, after that there are lot of mid shots of different couples together. Next there is a mid shot of Tom playing the guitar along with the song. Then it goes back to lots of mid shot of the couples holding each other. There are some parts where it has a close up of the guitar being played. At 2:20min it zooms out to a long shot where you can see the hole set where it is being filmed. Then it cut to an extreme long shot where you can see lot of people watch him and in the background there are buildings. Then it cut back to where lot of different couples are playing with each other, it is mostly a mid shot. Next there is a point of view shot of some one watching him in the crowded, witch is a long shot. Then back to lots of people kissing. At 3:20 there is a long shot of two people kissing then back to Tom then it ends.


Editing & Mise-en-scene

Tom through out the whole song is wearing jeans and a black leather jacket. All the different couples are
wearing different normal clothes. Most of the cut are straight cut; there are a couple of zooms about the clip.

Sound

The song is Tom Baxter performing Better.

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