Analysis of a music video; Linkin Park // Numb

Linkin Park // Numb

Camera shots

They use a lot of close ups on the bands face when they are singing in this music video, so they can see the emotions that the singers are feeling, in this video, it shows him closing eyes whilst singing, this shows how into the song he is and that his very passionate about what he is singing. It also allows us to see that he is lip-syncing to the words. It also uses ling shots on the whole band so we can see the background in where they are singing and gives us the setting. We also then can see how they are set out, the band who are playing instruments are all stood around the main singer. 



Camera movements 

In this music video it uses a lot of panning, not only on the band, but in the actual video that's telling the story, it follows the band around the room without cutting but also shows us panning on the character in the music video. It involves tilts on the people playing the instruments, so we can see not only them playing but their faces as well but not doing that straight on, it looks more effective when its tilting up towards them. They also use crane shots, by showing all the band also but with the whole setting fitted in too. 

Editing
 

In this music video they use a lot of fast straight cuts, this fits in with what genre it is, as its rock, if the cuts were slow, it doesn't really match and as the music is quite up beat, the cuts are fitted in with that. It also uses a lot of jump cuts, which jumps from the artists/ band playing and singing to the story what's actually happening in the music video, in this video that is exactly what happens and its frequently used in the majority of music videos. Computer generated images are also an editing technique they use, as it shows the woman walking through a crowd yet they get sped up as if you cant actually make out their people, this shows how lonely she feels, but the people aren't actually walking that fast so it is computer generated. 

Sound

This music video uses audio dubbing, this is where they video and all of the cuts and other edits are all put together already and then they just put the audio to the song, so it looks like they are singing it but they are actually lip syncing. In this music video, the sound is just the music and the vocals, it doesn't have any other non-diegetic sounds as the song starts straight away.

Lighting

In this music video they artificial lighting which is commonly used in most music videos, this is where the light shines specifically onto the artists face so we can see his face coming across as ageless, it makes them look good and this is what most people want to see, what the band now looks like as they get older. This is a very big effect in a rock music video because the surrounding is mostly dark and seeing their faces is important. In a rock music video you don't ever seem to spot any special effects and there isn't in this one either.


 Props

The props used in this video, are mainly the instruments the band is using to play the music and the microphone that the main singer is using. These props always being shown as the band are always being shown throughout so we always see these props. Props are essential in music videos because without them it would be very plain and if there aren't any props then that means the characters cant be doing much which may put people of watching them.

Costumes

The costumes they wear in this video are just normal everyday clothes, they are pretty dull just like rock clothes, the whole video doesn't have any colour, its all dark and the ain colours you see are black and grey.


Mise en scene

The mise en scene in Numb by Linkin Park is a song trying to explain that adults have forgotten what its like to be a kid now they have grown up and that their children cant just be what they want them to be, they are trying to say that its hard to do something that someone else wants you to if you don't want to do. So the song is explaining this and the video helps alongside it, showing a girl trying to be what her parents what but she cant and its driving her crazy.