Main Task Deconstruction 3

This is a music video from Birdy to her song, 'Wings'.  It features Birdy and her friends dressed in costumes, presumably at some form of party, dancing around rooms, fields and a large bonfire. The video uses the colours and strange outfits to enhance the atmosphere and give it an eery sense of strangeness and difference to a more standard party in society.

Camera: Many establishing shots are used in the music video, setting up the scene frequently and showing a wide range of the characters and their costumes used. These are used so the audience understands where the video has taken them as it cuts between rooms and outdoors, and showing the extent of the party from a wide angle. Quite often the video uses close-ups to show the detail of the costumes, the expressions of sadness on Birdy's face and the actions of the party-goers as they dance around and seem to have fun. Tracking shots are also used frequently due to the party-goers dancing and moving, as well as following Birdy walking through a corridor while playing with lights, so the viewers follow them as they move and feel a part of the video and involved. Tracking shots are also used to follow the movements in general which gets the audience feeling as if they are there within the music video and that the party is interacting with them. Quite often, zoom in and out are used to add the effect of the video being fast and slow paced at differing points and giving the general feel of excitement and yet also sombreness to the viewer.
Mise en scene: The party-goers are shown wearing rather dull colours (even when wearing white it's faded) which reflect well with the general colour of the video, as most of the light within it is low-key with a drastic use of shadows to reflect darkness. The low-key lighting used within the video is used to emphasise the overall dullness of the event as far as Birdy is concerned. Birdy herself wears the most colour, a shade of blood orange that makes her stand out from the crowd which signifies her as the main focus but can also represent her feeling isolated since she also doesn't interact with the crowd. However, as she later interacts with the crowd, she starts to become blended with the colours of them seeming to become more prominent while the video itself seems to get slightly blurred. Many of the costumes worn seem to be period-like, so that also being considered with the dull colours reflect well with the environment they're in which is dying fields and a worn-down house which also is decorated to seem like it's from a period in the past.
Editing: The editing uses straight cuts when transitioning from different clips, which should make the overall feel of the video fast-paced but due to the scenes actual being long and slow, the video itself is largely slow-paced.  Due to the transitions being seemingly random and not in time with the beats, it can throw off the audience and make them feel confused, which in turn could also make them focus more & pay more attention on the video. Slow motion is used many times within this (such as when the party-goers are dancing, Birdy walking, Birdy on the swing) which slows down the entire video but it also increases in speed at times when cutting between scenes to maybe distort the video and give a sense of confusion and wonder to the audience which may be reflecting how Birdy is feeling.