Research for my Music Video: Analysis of my Preferred Music Video.  

I have watched the song called “Hey There Delilah” by “Plain White T’s”. I really love watching this song mainly because it beautifully coveys the theory of Carol Vernallis. The camera work and the editing are superbly intertwined with each other. The song is an Amplification  (Andrew Goodwin’s theory) because it adds another level of meaning to the lyrics, which is greatly supported by the shots used and how it’s edited. When the artist sings, the camera focuses closely on him as the other shot illustrates hos feeling. 

I really like how this shot cuts up the images into split
screens showing different angles to the video

I really like the puzzle effect or split screen effect where there are separate different shots used together to convey the feeling that the artist is madly in love with a woman who she hasn’t met him yet but he feels like he has done all his life. I really do like how it’s edited together to give this feeling. I feel inspired by this music video because based on how its put together. There are lots of close ups of the artist, his guitar and the woman because we as an audience are meant to be focusing on there as they show great significance. 

I also really love the cinematography because they use colour very effectively. The black and white are shown only to the artist to give a feeling of how colourless and how empty his life is filled without Delilah. And the scenes where there is colour is also used effectively because it shows how he longs for it and how normal it looks, which he wants. 

Handheld Effect used

The camera work I also really like because there are certain scenes where the hand held effect is used to give an impression of Delilah’s point of view. Again, the editing is done precisely as each slide show is played and changed; it changes on the exact beat so it has great fluidity.  

According to Laura Mulvey's theory, this video does literally dissect parts of the woman and the man for different effects. When there are certain different shots of the woman,we have some that are focusing on the woman's face and her legs to show the audience how the artist finds her attractive and when there certain shots of the man being dissected, the intended feeling is that we are meant to feel how broken he is feeling, how lost he is without her which means that this challenges the theory as it isn't just based on the attractiveness. 

Dissecting parts of the body used perfectly by
the split screen effect

I also like how the beginning and the end are similiar scenes showing how the story of the video hasn't changed. I like the realism to this video, imitating how you would imagine a love story film would be.