JM - Technical Analysis ( Part 1)

Don’t mug yourself – The Streets (Unknown Director, 2002)

Type of Shot	Mise-en-scene	Duration (Seconds)
Close up	Cafe door with an open sign hanging from the handle. A man walks through the door and camera zooms.	0:00-0:08
Mid shot	Man walking through the door fills camera, next shot unravels as he walks out of shot. Side on view of the Artist sitting at a table in a Cafe	0:08-0:09
Newsreader shot	Front on view of artist sitting in Cafe. The set is gradually moving to the left behind Artist.  However the Artist stays in the middle of the shot.	0:09-0:15
Close up	Side on view of the Artist in a Night Club. Artist is addressing the camera breaking the fourth wall	0:15-0:20
Newsreader shot	Front on view of Artist sitting back in the Cafe holding the Salt. Continuing to break the fourth wall	0:20-0:26
Close up	Table with salt scattered upon it in the formation of a women. Camera zooming towards it. Food is then put onto the table.	0:26-0:30
Close up	Hand holding a phone. Camera then pans to a close up shot of the artist sitting at the table in the Cafe	0:30-0:35
Close up	Side on view of the Artist in the Night Club. Girl is in shallow focus in the background which puts focus onto the Artist	0:35-0:38
Newsreader shot	The Artist and a male actor sitting in the Cafe. The artist is holding a phone and is addressing the camera but the actor is not. Focussing the audience’s attention on the Artist. The cafe set changes behind them into a bedroom.	0:38-0:54
Close up	Artist comes into shot from the right of the shot addressing the camera, breaking the fourth wall, with the male actor in the background	0:54-0:56
Mid shot	Artist sitting talking to the actor who is sitting on the sofa	0:56-0:58
Close up	Artist turns to look right, changing the shot into a close up talking to the actor.	0:58-1:01
Close up	Artist sitting on the sofa talking towards the camera	1:01-1:07
Close up	Actor lip syncing towards the camera. Slow zoom towards lips.	1:07-1:10
Close up	Artist addressing the camera, still sitting inside the bedroom on the sofa	1:10-1:15
Close up	Artist sitting in the bedroom with a girl on top of him. Camera panning around the Artist.	1:15-1:21
Newsreader shot	Actor and Artist talking to each other in the cafe. Setting then changes around them whilst both drinking from a Mug, then into a Pint Glass. Camera remains distance from the Artist and Actor	1:21-1:30

Evaluation of shot by shot analysis for Parts 1 & 2


From watching these two videos which contain an artist who is similar to the track we have chosen has given us numerous lessons. The biggest thing we have begun to understand with the Hip-Hop genre music video is that the percentage of shots which feature the lead singer is often particularly large. From the video above we learnt that out of the 17 shots analysed, 13 of these contained the artist.  In consideration of both videos we learnt that a large amount of shots that is needed to create an effective video. Although I began this project understanding that music videos have a fast cutting rate, I underestimated how faster this was, for example in my Part 2 analysis of 'Lets push things forward- The Streets (Unknown Director,2002) has 27 shots within 1 minute and 30 seconds. Leading on from this I learnt that although there are numerous shots in the video, they often show similar locations and objects. This can be shown particularly through the Part 1 evaluation, 'Don't mug yourself - The streets (Unknown director, 2002), where there were 5 shots in order which were almost the same, all showing the Cafe location differing slightly with mise-en-scene. Another lesson I learnt from this exercise is the movement of the camera. The camera rarely remains in the same place, or does not zoom or pull focus. However an exception to this can be seen through the 'Don't mug yourself - The Streets (Unknown director, 2002) where instead of camera movement, the director has chosen to move the set in front of the camera giving the effect of camera movement.