Cuts in a music video

In comparison to the film opening I made at AS, a music video has a lot more cuts as it has to keep up with a music track. To really compare the two I looked at the first 30 cuts of a music video to see how long it took to reach that amount. I have taken a screenshot everytime a cut was used in the music video for the song, Chelsea Dagger, and it reached that number in 44 seconds. This is a drastic change from a film opening which rarely reach that number of cuts through the entirety of the opening.

The video uses a mix of close up shots of the band, enforcing a star image to the viewer. There also a few wide shots, showing the instruments being used, letting the viewer know that the music is being played in the video, as opposed to over the top of it. There are also examples of voyeurism in the video as there are girls shown with less clothes on than the male performers as well as close ups of them, despite not being part of the band and having no star image to convey.