Taken For a Fool - Analysis 2

The Strokes are an America Indie/Post Punk Revival band from New York. They're signed to RCA Records(Sony), and Rough Trade in the UK. A five piece band, they consist of two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer and a singer, and are known for their retro appearance and stylings reminiscent of 70'sand 80's music.

This is another video which I will use in my research. The aspect of this video I want to concentrate on is the cinematography and editing. Whereas the shots are very long relative to the pace of the music, the editing of adding multiple copies of the band members doing different things makes the video seem a lot more busy and chaotic. This is similar to a technique which I want to implement into my music video.
 the camera motion appears to be circular with the camera facing inwards. The camera makes many revolutions over the course of the video and remains continuous despite the cutting of shots. The imagery created by the multiple overlays of the band members helps to keep the editing visually fast paced despite the relatively long shots which may otherwise be dull and boring to watch.

The background of the video also seems edited. Many colourful lights which first resemble a park, with trees etc, move in jumps and jerks in the style of a soundboard(?) and them go on to form a parking lot and more of a city/concrete jumgle image. I can tell this has been edited in however due to how it appears the whole way around the 360 degrees of the circle. Whereas the technology is a little more advanced than the chroma key effect that Adobe Premiere Pro has, it's the same princple of hiding the original background.

The general Mise-en-Scene is however unrelated to how I would imagine the Mise-en-scene of my video would be. whereas this is very colourful, reminiscent of various 1980's videos, mine will be more plain and regular. Same goes for the band's costume. Usage of leather jackets and tight, skinny jeans, sunglasses, a sleeveless puffer jacket etc. all give the retro feel associated with the music from the album in which the song comes from. The lighting is also heavily tinted for this same effect. The flooring of the set is black to contrast all of the light and right colours used in the video and to replicate neon lights- a major part reference to the 80's when neon lights were widely used.