Video Analysis - arctic monkeys

Music video analysis
Arctic monkeys – the view from the afternoon



This is a performance and narrative based video, the video is set in the courtyard of a council estate and a young male is playing the drums to the song in the courtyard.

The video is in black white, this works well as it goes with the blocks of council flats that surround him.

The shots in this video are all relatively long, there aren’t any really longs ones but there are very little short ones too, they are vary around 2-5 seconds on average.

There is a good variety of medium shots and medium close ups, and are also a lot of shots of the buildings and the surrounding area.

At 2.16 there is a good close up of the kick drum on the drum kits, the lighting looks brilliant, the kick drum pedal glistens in the light which looks really effective.

3:01 there is a long zoom on the drummer’s hands, at this point his hands are bleeding, the use of zoom is used effectively here as the viewer can then notice his hands.

3:50, the use of slow motion works well here, the drummer snaps his sticks and the slow motion kind of puts the action into high definition as you can see the chippings of wood fly off the sticks and emphasises the impact.