The video that I decided to write about is a short music video or film (I’m not really sure) about Shia LaBeouf. I feel like even though the purpose of this video is to be ridiculous, it shows many of the techniques mentioned in Wohl’s article. The main question brought up in the article is who, what, when, where, and why? The video is very obvious when explaining who is in the video and what it is about. There are several shots of each group of people performing in the video and the lyrics to the song, even though he is not in it until the end, show the obvious main subject of the video. Although the actual location is not very clear in the beginning of the video, the narrator clearly describes the story’s scene with extreme detail throughout the entire video. The actual location that the people are in though is revealed when there is a pan over the entire theater that revealed red seats and Shia LaBeouf in one of the seats, so the location of a theater is clear to the viewer. Although the entire video is happening at once like one cohesive performance, the editing cuts to different close ups of different groups performing different things. Everyone is not really shown in one shot until the end before it pans across the theater. Like the movie clip of Moonrise Kingdom, every character of group has their own close up shot, but their location in relation to each other isn’t revealed until the end. I think that the reason there was a long pan of the entire theater before reaching Shia LaBeouf is because it shows how large the theater is and how much money and resources was put into the production and the space even though the subject shouldn’t be taken seriously at all. I think that the editing does a great job of showing the drastic amount of production value put into the video in relation to the random subject. Another aspect of the video is the consistent medium close up of the main narrator. I feel like this consistent image of him helps the viewer know when to focus on the story versus the visuals. Also in the middle when it cuts off before continuing, I think that the camera and lights lowering did a good job in tricking the viewer into thinking the video was over. Overall, the editing did a good job of showing how elaborate the performance was for something so ridiculous.
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