MuteMath Music Video - Typical

The video is set in mostly the same location throughout. This again is a similarity with other MuteMath music videos, which are again set in the same location throughout most of the video.

The style of the mise-en-scene is not a typical setting, with quite unusual props and features added to it, this would link with the song as it's about breaking out of the `typical`. The dark background means that the bright and colourful props and features stand out, drawing the audience’s attention to these. The costume is very much the MuteMath style, the smart casual suites. This helps the audience recognise them almost instantly. The lights which are displayed as a backdrop at the back of the setting flash in time with the beat, adding to the excitement of the video. When it comes to the positioning of the band members, the lead singer is at the forefront of the group throughout the video, as the lead singer he is the one that the audience are going to focus on the most, so therefore it makes sense for him to be positioned at the front.

There are a very little variety of camera angles used in this video. At the beginning, there is an extreme close up of the bassist starting the song, the camera then zooms out to reveal the rest of the set at a medium long shot. The camera then stays stationary throughout the rest of the video, with the two exceptions, one near the beginning when the camera zooms back inwards to a medium shot for the next scene, this involves the lead singer positioned alone with a white background and paint, the camera then zooms back out again to the medium long shot like before including all the band members in the set. The only other time the camera moves/changes is when the camera pans upwards to a high angle shot lasting approximately 20 seconds.

The lack or variety or camera angles are made up largely with the editing. There are sections which have been sped up and others which have been slowed down. The whole video has been shot with the actions being done forwards and the lyrics being spoken backwards, so during the editing process, they would have reversed the footage to create the effect shown in the video. This effect can also be seen in the video of `The Scientist` by the band Coldplay. It is a common effect used as although it can take a long time to film, the finished effect adds interest to the video, especially when the video largely is performance based and without it, can become quite boring. Also the movement is all in time with the video, which works well with the reverse effect.

Overall there are many consistencies between this MuteMath music video and other MuteMath music videos, for example, the fact that the video is very performance based. The use of the reverse effect is a good use as without it, the video may have been very boring due to there being next to no narrative.