LB: Technical Analysis - Bastille - Things We Lost In The Fire

Seconds	What is in the shot?	Camerawork.
0-3	Sunset – Exotic Location	Extreme Long Shot
4-7	Another Sunset – Exotic Location – Smoke moving slowly	Extreme Long Shot
8-16	14 Men silhouette backs to camera.	Tilt upwards Long Shot
17-22	Dogs running towards camera	Long shot slow motion
23-30	Men walking, sideways angle	Long shot to Mid shot Slow motion
31-39	Close up of bullet in hand tilts upwards reveals man in close up	Close up tilts upwards
40-44	Wolf on top of abandoned car, exotic location	Mid Shot
45-51	Dark characters running towards light area which reveals a man	Close Up
52-57	Dark characters running past the man	Pan Mid shot
58-1:01	Man with back to the camera, bullet  visible in hand	Mid Shot
1:02-1:04	Performance shot, man lip syncing	Close Up Rule of Thirds
1:04-1:07	Bullet in the hand, starts to tell a narrative	Close Up
1:08-1:11	Man turns around, the shot zooms in and reveals another shot	Zoom Cross Cutting
1:12-1:29	Panned left to right, shot is revealed/ Slow motion of girl walking, turns to the camera and the background disappeared	Panning shot Slow Motion Mid Shot to Close Up
1:30-1:36	Performance of singer, dark lighting of background	Mid Shot
1:37-1:44	Girl dancing in dark location, fades and reveals next shot	Mid Shot
1:44-1:52	Car fades in and revealed	Long shot
1:53-1:55	Man walks and gets in car	Mid Shot
1:55-1:56	Man in car fades (dark)	Close Up
1:56-2:00	Man in car (light) Different Location when in the car - Flashback	Close Up

I Decided to do a Technical Analysis for Bastilles video "Things We Lost In the Fire" this video if narrative based with a conceptual disjunctured Idea to the track. There are a few visual links between the lyrics and what was on the screen e.g. "We Lost in the fire" Flames are visible.

The main reason I decided to do a technical analysis on this track was to see what band image and meta-narratives are portrayed in Bastilles videos. As well as this, to see what type of format and style the videos may follow. From this video the clear links we can make to our work would be the idea of an idividual character being followed and his story being shown. In this video we are positioned with a dark story of the male character with the narrative coming to a conclusion. In our video we are planning to have a male character also being followed, and positined as our main character.

In this video and also other videos by the band I found examples of lip-syncing while being present but also absent staring int the distance. However this is something we dont want to try in our video as we dont believe it will work with the ideas we have, we also have the problem with our main character looking young so it would not look right.

For the style and types of shots that we want to relate into our own piece would bethe use of the exteme long shot at the beginning to show our location as well as the title of our track. We have also realised the use of slow-motion shots which is something we want to try in our studio work and also in exterior locations. A lot of shots are positined in mid-shots to see both a character in the locations which helps with the narrative while also showing the character and what there expressions are like.

Doing the technical analysis was helpful as from this I have gained a greater understanding of lengths of shots and what type of format the bands videos create. From this we can carry on with the development of our concept so we can get storyboard shots done.