Similar bands - People in Planes, video analaysis

People in Planes – Pretty Buildings. Analaysis
♪ Genre Characteristics: Girl is wearing a typical hoody that will appeal to right aged audience. The colour scheme is dark and gloomy which also appeals to a younger audience. First meet the character who is a girl. Everything looks sad and the character is showing no emotion. Lots of quick and slow panning around the character making her centre of attention. She walks into a bare room, looks like she lives on her own. Quite young, teenager, Costume/ prop she is wearing a school bag on her back.
o Next story he is a man sitting on his own, quite depressing. Same colour dull mustered yellow. He is making something that is obviously quite important to him

♪ Relationship between lyrics and music: The girl at the beginning sits down and shows the camera her drawings of the ‘Pretty buildings’ she starts drawing, quite expressive, the lyrics are “dive into sleep... dream of pretty buildings” as she chucks something on to her bed. She then holds up a visual representation which shows how she is feeling, “ break this silence.” It then slowly zooms into the sign “telegraph your points of view, Sheppard me from silence.” The actual telegraph says “break this silence” “I don’t wanna feel this low again” moves from the sad animation to going through another window which is the start or the next story.
o This story starts with a single man, again sitting on his own completely isolated. Horrible miserable room that doesn’t really show any emotion like the character. “I ain’t gunna steal your flame again” “Let’s talk about it” he picks up a glass of what looks like whiskey meaning that he is really depressed about his life, especially as he is then looking up at maybe his family.
♪ Relationship between music and visuals:
♪ Beginning shot is an establishing shot of buildings in rain while, sombre piano music starts the song, sets the mood and lets the audience know what theme the video will have. Slow pan inwards to show windows. Moves to the quick zoom in, into a dark gloomy corridor. “I don’t wanna feel comes up on the telegraph which is also in the chorus and again explains how she feels. During this part of the song her drawings come alive and the actual building is alive in her picture. This part has black and white animation, that moves to the beat of the music, quite strange sequence, maybe what’s going on in her head? Another picture then comes up of her crying “TALK” comes up in really big writing but this doesn’t seem to help.
o Similar to beginning but this time the camera zooms into the cartoon window of the house again showing a different story, this then zooms into a LS that slowly zooms into a pan round that concentrates on the character. “I don’t wanna feel” you see the characters emotion on his face as he is using the scissors. The background has lots of pictures on it that he then looks at pained as if something is really the matter. It then goes to behind him as if the audience is really there , the ECU of his hands building his model is quite personal, it shows the care that he is putting into his, by the looks of it lives work. The animation then starts again with what looks snow in the background meaning its quite cold and un-feeling shot of him sitting on his own. Maybe his wife/ family left him because she didn’t like what he was building or that he spent all his time doing it instead of family time. It then goes to the rest of the animation which strangely enough cuts to include scissors which the man was using, could it even mean that he is so depressed he is thinking about violent things?
 After this shot it then quickly zooms into another window which again tells another story. This time there are two people maybe in a relationship, but they don’t look very happy. You have the LS showing both characters quite away from eash other, the distance between then could reflect the way they feel about each other. Also the man is stading up which makes him look like he is looking over the women (notion of looking.)
♪ CUs Etc. + image motifs
♪ Notion of looking: The audience feel as if they are looking in on the different characters stories, quite personal as they each have something they are hurting about but they are not telling anyone.
 The shot of the two people you have the notion of looking
♪ Intertextual references
♪ Performance + narrative based – very much narrative based, has each different story of each character, there isn’t any performance as you don’t get to see the actual band at all.
♪ Mise – En – Scene. The use of lighting is quite interesting, it’s very dark apart from one single bright light which shines in what the depressing people find is the most important parts of their lives.
o Costume: First girl is wearing a typical hoody. She is quite pretty but doesn’t look like she cares about that (long hair normal looking.) Second man is wearing simple clothes, a white top and an old red checked top, looks like he also doesn’t really care about his appearance. His hair is flat and quite geeky looking he also wears quite geeky rimmed glasses that are quite old fashioned.