Shot Count Task

Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone


Shot count - 105

I chose this video because it fits well with my chosen genre that is indie pop.
For this task, I needed to count the number of shots throughout the video sequence, some parts were quite difficult to count because at some points the editing of the music video was very fast.
The majority of the shots are very fast paced, however, throughout the versus and the bridge of the song, some of the shots are quite slow to match the speed of the song. At around 45 seconds as the first chorus starts to kick in, the pace of the shots begin to speed up. The video consists of lots of varied shots, such as establishing shots, close up and long shots. The establishing shot used at the beginning shows that the band are in a bedroom. After 1:50, the lead singer is somewhere else, though no real establishing shot is used (mainly only long shots) we are still able to see the scenery around him, which looks like a city. The two places in the video also don't use an establishing shot, yet we are able to see around him that he is at a train track and then a forest.

The genre conventions usually consist of an indie pop band in a small room playing their instruments and singing, and sometimes the videos are quite surreal. This song does have a very surreal video to match it.

The storyline of the lyrics is reflected quite well in this video, at 44 this is more noticeable as the lyrics say "he needs no army where he's headed 'cause he knows that they're just ghosts and they can't hurt him if he can't see them" whilst things around the bedroom are moving without anyone touching them.