Timed Analysis - Love is easy (McFly)

Love is easy- McFly

Performance Video

I have chosen to analysis a performance video because there are very few shots that are within the video compared to what there are in narrative or thematic music videos.

0:00-0:08- Back shot of Tom walking along. The lighting is dark and the only visible light is the bands logo on the stage.

0:08- 0:11 - The lights turn on and Tom slowly tuns around. He is about to start playing a small ukulele.

0:11-0:24- flow on action shot. The camera is just trailing after  Tom as he walks up onto the stage.

0:26-0:35- The camera lowers slightly as Tom crouches on the stage as the flowers pop up.

0:35-0:43: Mid shot of Danny and Harry putting two pieces of clouded card together. The shot then does not move when Tom and Dougie enter the shot with a cardboard golf cart.

0:45-0:47- Extreme close up of a old box wight he band on. The camera then slightly blurs and it pans in closer.

0:48- 0:51- The box is then moved away and shows the whole band stand behind it, looking as if they've just jumped out the box.

0:52:1:10- The camera pans back slightly to make the shot more of a mid shot than a close up. The band is standing on the stage, swinging around umbrellas with lyrics to the song on.

1:10-1:12- The camera pans down to Danny's feet and it is a close up of some numbers on the floor which is to symbolise ' a simple equation with no complication' 

1:13- 1:28: The camera pans back up to Danny, and now all the band have join shim, each holding a sign. The shot now is a close up of the boys and they flip over the signs and dart to walk backwards and out of shot.

1:29-1:31: Close up of Danny holding an award, and then Tom appears in the shot and the shot is then an extreme close up of him.

1:31-1:42 - The close up to Extreme close up shot is carried on as Tom walks past Dougie and Harry. A strider or dolly could have been used here.

1:42- 1:55- A long shot of the rest of the hall and two mascot birds are dancing around. Tom then appears back in shot for a few seconds singing before dispersing and the camera starts to pan back round to the front of the stage.

1:55-2:25- The continuous shot is that of a mid shot that shows the band recreating all of their different album covers up to the present day.

2:27-2:42- There is then a 360 degree shot which shows Danny playing the guitar, the mascot birds still dancing further down the hall. It then shows when it pans back to Danny, that Dougie and Harry have now joined him on the stage.

2:22-2:47:  A mid shot of the band dancing around.

2:47-2:57- Close of the band holding a small paper stage at 2:51 the shot becomes a extreme close up as a voice over from famous romantic film plays over. at 2:56 the camera moves slightly and focuses on one of the band members rolling in a larger version of the moon.

2:58-3:00- The change of the story is symbolised though a quick and fast cut shot that changed from the moon to harry sitting on his drums.

3:00-3:30- Pan on action shot of the band playing, the camera focusing on different members at different times.

3:30-3:43-360 degree shot of the entire stage area,and the empty hall has now been replaced with fans of the band. The shot is quite slow as it pans around the thousands of fans.

3:43-3:48- Close up of the band holding the paper stage again.

3:49-3:51- Extreme close up which allows the audience to read the sign on the paper stage which says for the fans. At this point the music cuts out slowly and sounds like the end of a chord being struck on a guitar.