Analysing Music Videos

Chet Faker - Talk Is Cheap

Camerawork

There isn't any diversity or versatility within the camerawork in this music video, since the positioning of the camera is the same and is one continuous frame throughout the music video without changing. Even though it's one positioning/frame, the flow and movement of the camerawork is stop-motion, being a collection of photos put together to make a video. This specific type of camerawork and execution is done to present the video in more of a raw and edgy way, giving it an unfinished and rocky feel which works well with the nature and narrative of the music video.

Editing

Considering the music video is all stop-motion, the editing has been done in a way to ensure that the photos taken through the stop-motion progress of filming are put together in an effective and efficient way to ensure a steady flow and continuity, making it seem like a video. There are two layers to the video, one being the artist (Chet Faker) ad the other being the changing environment around him. both parts to the video are placed together through the editing stage, making it look like he's surrounded by these environments as they change. The surroundings as well, are stop-motion captured.

Mise En Scene

Throughout the video, the surroundings around the artist change. At the beginning, it's snow and ice, proceeding onto spring where flows and grass begin to grow, then summer, autumn where everything begins to whither and then finally we arrive back into winter with the snow and ice. These changes represent the four seasons in the year and their cycle. The artist (Chet Faker) also grows and whit hers alongside these seasons as they change throughout their cycle. At the beginning of winter, he rises from the ice and begins to grow and blossom into the height of summer, where he ultimately starts to die and whither throughout the end of autumn and back into winter. His changes mirror the cycle of the seasons, which ultimately represent himself as something whilst purely changes and will finally die.

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