Similar Product Research 5. - Editing.

Frank Turner - Recovery - Music Video Analysis.

Link to video

• Low key lighting in warehouse walking into camera with guitar
• Stops at full body shot and starts playing guitar and singing
• The top of the picture peels away to a different shot of the top 3^rd of his body
• Bottom 3^rd of pic peels away, the shots don’t match up
• 1 word of the lyrics over lays the middle section of his face in the close up
• ECU of guitar, screen still split
• Cut to LS of him again with his band in the background of the middle 3^rd
• Bottom 3^rd cuts to hand drawn legs (More legs in bottom 3^rd than the other 2)
• Quick cut to him surrounded by people facing him (still in 3rds)
• Cut to people facing away from him and hand drawn hands holding ticket over middle 3^rd
• Cut to first shot again but with the people’s legs on the bottom 3^rd then their bodies in the 2^nd third and just his feet in the bottom then all surrounding him again in all 3 sections
• Cut to ECU of drum but 2^nd 3^rd of it is hand drawn
• Same with the next shot of guitar
• Shot of him and the band again, the sections are slightly out of line
• CU of him singing not in 3rds
• Cut back to LS of him with people dancing in 2^nd section
• Hand drawn 3 people playing guitars in 2^nd section
• Quick changes in 2^nd section between hand drawn just him, then the band again.
• The sections then muddle up at the top there is a CU of the bass drum, then his hand drawn guitar being played and on the bottom there is the feet of the dancing people
• The 2^nd section changes to his mouth singing
• Cuts to 3 different guitars being played then back to LS of him with ECU of guitar in 2^nd section
• Back to LS of him and band then the band disappear and leave the instruments behind him
• Cuts to hand drawn road in 1^st section – ‘it’s a long road back to recovery’
• Lyrics in all 3 sections ‘making it right’
• Skeletons in 2^nd section and feet in 3^rd
• Keeps cutting between hand drawn imagery, people dancing and him and the band
• ‘If anybody ever asks us lets just tell them that we met in jail’ – jail drawings around him and her
• Screen changes into horizontal not vertical sections with hand drawn waves and a woman-playing guitar
• Then 3 different shots of him playing guitars
• Same 3 shots change around, quick shot of hand drawn skeleton in middle section
• Back to vertical sections and lyrics in the middle
• ‘walk a little taller’ – bottom section his hand drawn feet crushing a city
• Shows album cover moving and beating
• ECU of his mouth – middle is hand drawn
• Mixture of shots of people dancing, screen splits lots
• Finishes on a hand drawn tape with the album name on it ‘Tape Deck Heart’