Cinematography Within Music Video's

Keaton Henson - To Your Health

Keaton often has very beautiful videos for his music. I'm on a hunt for who the curator was - who dictates the over-all cinematography but as of yet I haven't been in luck. I love the purple overlay, which somewhat symbolises the mood of the song. I also love the way that the dancing is still heard throughout the song; adding to the effect of how 'raw' the composition is.

Daughter - Still

This video by many people, for Daughter is truly beautiful. Very raw and the colourist did a very good job at setting the mood through the colours. The cinematography make's it feel like the viewer is watching more of a independent movie, than a music video - same with the acting. The art director was Ruth Barlett whilst the colourist is named to be Vic Parker.

James Blake - Overgrown

James Blake, an undeniably unbelievable musician, has incredible videos that aren't quite movie-like, but are very reflective of the music is singing. This one is very close to being more like a movie, but it doe have a very reflective feel of it just being a music video. The over-all composition fits with how beautiful the music is, the entire video is rather slowed down and very coldly coloured. The director was Nabil, but as of yet, I've been unable to figure out the colourist/cinematographer. 

The World Is A Beautiful Place and I'm No Longer Afraid To Die - Low Light Assembly

The light throughout this shines straight through which I feel is intentional to grab the viewers intention. All the way through this video, they're underwater, the light speckles/bubbles aren't photoshopped out, to give a magical feel to the video. I love that at the end, we see the sky which is a 'break through'. The light is dull, presumedly to show the 'Low Light' reference in the song title and the bodies are always swimming (that is, until the end of the video when they show the sky - almost like a breakthrough.)  I can't find who created/directed the video, it could potentially just be their own since they're a relatively 'do it yourself' somewhat band.

The lyrics are represented as trapped throughout the video - that even though you can see the light and everybody is constantly moving, you're still unable to get to that one point you essentially need to hypothetically be happy. The lyrics are (We can't change this place the way it changes us. The parking lot where we lay is more than home now. Breathe in deep. Please, breathe in deep. The light bleeds through the window pane, into our eyelids. Our bodies drown in Sheetz. Anchored, exhausted. Count the stains one by one, up on the ceiling. The echoes race around the room, they sing together: "We are all the same".) 

La Dispute - Objects In Space

La Dispute have a regular thing that they do - this being creating their own music videos for their songs and typically placing their lyrics on the top. Their most typical music videos are made up of home, old videos that are filmed on the cam-corder a long time back. It's evident that they fit, primarily because the videos being silent and somewhat short clips, which gives you the chance to put your own mood on it and fit it with their music and it constantly makes your attention flick and make your previous conclusion of the mood slightly different. They add a cover on the video, to disrupt the video itself and sometimes it can become intentionally irritating. It almost always comes to a sudden stop, as appose to it carrying on until the video has ended, which could create a very strange feeling - almost reflecting that everything can just, well, stop. They're a very emotive band to say the least which their video's indefinitely reflect that. 

Modern Baseball - Pothole

Not quite like previously put on video's I've written about, but I love how Modern Baseball have created a black and white video made from short clips. This is typically showing their life whilst on the road, but the way that they've filmed it with mainly shadowed footage, higher highlight area's and the brightness relatively low, with the black and white filter - it makes the composition look soft and delicate. The close up shots that flick to (sometimes) fast forward areas conflict against one another.