Damien Rice- The Blower's Daughter

As soon as the video starts the audience see this dark and dreary setting with the use of the colour effect of sepia in the setting, using the long shot the audience can see the full surroundings of the person on the sing the setting of the man in this opening surrounding gives the feeling of isolation and distance within this person giving the audience a feel of how this person is feeling. He is dressed in all black where he almost fades into the background because of the brown background giving this depressed and upsetting atmosphere to the song letting the audience know the mood of this song, this is something that would be interesting to incorupt into our video as we are using a song similar to this mood so by instantly telling the audience the type of song and mood this video is going to be gives that insight of wanting to know the ending of where this person is going to end up.

I think this shot is again what we can use in our music video, because the setting is in the same setting that we want to use on the beach and viewing the sea, it gives a isolated and lost setting to the video, the two shot of the man looking at the women in the background gives the audience a personal insight of the realtionship. It's a romantic setting of two people over looking on to the sea however the use of the dark earthy colours bring the atmosphere of depression and misery which could imply to the audience about the troubles between the relationship and that there is a story behind how they became like this.

the camera shot cuts to the women to have the in the foreground of the picture to where she was standing in the previous shot, the shot is slow motion with her hair blowing in this wing, she is wearing dark clothing and the medium shot of her face shows her expressions, her whole presence presents her as being sad and upset. The slow motion effect is interesting and I think adds to the atmosphere of the video in being dreary and troubled, I think is something we should use in our editing as our song is similar to this song and I think works well with showing emotion to a person in a shot.

Throughout the video there are numerous closeup shots of the couples face, showing the emotion and expression in their face to suggest what has happened within their relationship, I think because of us using a song like "Lover's Eyes" and it being about a relationship that is similar to this the use of the closeups and extreme closeups of the face is important to symbolise to the audience the emotion of the characters in the music video.

They use similar expressions of sadness to express to the audience that they have been in a fight or arguement, giving them hints behind the story of how they ended up like this.

 The video uses cross dissolve to cut between each story of couples that are showing, I think this is a good way to show the past as it seem as if they are looking back into the past into the relationship that they used to be in and into the present tense and how they are know, it's a good way to link the different shots together. This is something that we need to think of including into our music video as we are going to use the idea of present and past tense of the couples relationship throughout our video.

The video is for a music video for a film and uses the clips of the film, the clips of the film are very vibrant and bright compared to the sepia effect of the artist singing. The mood of the clips of the film seem happy and more warm in contrast to the clips of the artist, this shows us that our idea of using the black and white effect of the present tense to imply to the audience that this person in the shot is unhappy comparing to the clips of how she is with the boy in the other shots this shows us that this works in using different coloured images to symbolise the mood and atmosphere of the shoot.