LH: Technical Analysis - Rejjie Snow 'Black Pancakes'

Number of Shot	Type of Shot	Camera Movement and Mise-en-scene	Shot Duration
1	NA	Gives the name of the artist ‘Rejjie Snow’ in the centre of the screen making him stand out.	2 seconds
2	NA	Same computerised screen states the title of the track ‘Black Pancakes’.	2 seconds
3	MCU	Conventional shot of this genre, the artist raps into the camera, it is graded with a pixelated look to it, making it look older than it is.	3 seconds
4	MS	Similar shot to the previous, with a different background in a shop. Camera is completely static, only movement from the artist.	3 seconds
5	MLS	Artist sitting on a bench rapping to the camera, shot is static.	3 seconds
6	CU	Handicam footage following the artist walking in a field close up in his face, still lip-synching.	2 seconds
7	MLS	Returns to still shot of Rejjie on the bench, uses synaesthesia by acting out the “kick” in the lyrics, while continuing to rap along.	4 seconds
8	LS	A pixelated/blur transition is used between this shot and the previous. Camera movement is static, shows rapper standing in shop lip-synching.	1 second
9	LS	Similar shot to the previous, with a change of location between two trees, shot still static.	1 second
10	CU	Returns to similar handicam usage in the field location, close up shows him rapping aggressively into the camera.	2 seconds
11	LS	Same location but shot size changes to long shot, shows whole body of rapper	3 seconds
12	LS	Location change to the shop, he high fives a young child in this shot.	1 second
13	LS	Static shot of rapper standing between two trees lip-synching to the track, the pixelated effect is maintained from the beginning of the video.	2 seconds
14	MLS	Breaks the fourth wall by rapping into the camera, he sits on the same bench.	3 seconds
15	MS	While Rejjie walks backwards, the handicam follows him while he lip-synchs along to the song.	4 seconds

• There are many things I like about this video specifically even though the main basis to this is the lip-syncing, which was not meant to be one of the primary features in our music video.
• I really like the usage of the old camera, I could not tell if this was the use of an old camera or done in post-production but this is something that we have discussed about using in our video, it gives a sort of retro feel to the video which works well with synaesthesia as it works very well with the genre of song that we have chosen.
• Throughout this video the majority of shots used are completely static, i think that this works well when there is no narrative to the video, so in this case similarly to our video where there is little use of narrative, meaning that in our video the use of still shots may be effective.
• The variation of shots to me are interesting as it allows the audience to gain a greater perspective of the artist that they are seeing, visually they can see them from more angles.
• The shot length average of this particular video is particularly short, it means the audience hardly has any time to take in each shot before it goes onto the next one, therefore this creates repeatability. I think this would be effective in our video, except it would make the filming more difficult as we would have to get many more shots overall.