Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Camera shot/movement/ Editing
The opening shot consists of a close up of a street sign in a city in America, this sets the scene and as it is very specific in the display i the name of the exact street, this may suggest to the audience that it will be a complicated and precise video. There is then a closeup of a man who is the lead singer of the Red hot chilli peppers band, to maybe emphasise that he will be an important character throughout the video as he is the first person shown in a closeup. The close up of the moving taxi approaching the man and then a long shot of the taxi stopping with the man entering it exhibits to the audience that the taxi journey will be the following narrative in the video. Following these shots, the scene drastically changes when the lyrics begin to a unknown setting as the lighting of the background is so dark for the purpose of focusing on the band playing and singing alone. There are various closeups and medium shots of the different band memebers playing guitars and the lead singer singing, however the camera movement is never still, there are panning shots horizontally and tilt movement up and down and at a moderate pace. This fastens the pace of the video as the audience can only focus on one person for a small amount of time before there is a different shot. There are may transitions of scenes throughout and following this the scene reverts back to the taxi narrative as there is tracking movement of the taxi, then various closeups of the taxi driver which suggests that he is another main character in the narrative. While the taxi is getting faster the closeups of the taxi driver and the man's concerned facial expressions, the editing of straight cuts get alot faster too, in order to make the audience on edge and to fasten the pace of the video which compares to the hectic and worrying mood of the scenario. Furthermore, when the man in the taxi realises that he id being kidnapped by the taxi driver, the camera movement becomes very shaky and unstable, also the mise en scene becomes blurred which connotes the panic and worry at this point in the video and consequently will make the audience tense and the same emotion of panic will be conveyed through this.
Costume, mise en scene and props
Within the costume of the man who is kidnapped, he wears a white jacket casual jeans, the white jacket connotes his innocense, therfore emphasisng that he is essentially a victim and suggests that he is a conventionally 'good' charcter in the narrative, if applied to Propp's theory. However, the taxi driver who is the kidnapper wears an unuasual and extavagant outfit. It consists of army print combats, and a cropped tank top. This outfit suggests a rebelloius and volatile nature and it wll remind the audience of an army uniform. His hair is also long and unruly which further emphasises these conotations, as it also makes him seem careless, which corresponds with his actions in the video. In terms of Propp's character theory, the taxi driver man falls into the category of the villain, not only from his costume but his role in the video, as he is the cause of the disruption in the narrative, in terms of Todorov's theory. Furthermore, this charcter supports his role in the narrative by the way he acts, for example he uses the prop of fire flares in an abandoned dark tunnel and dances with them, he looks very intimidating as he is unpredictable and this part would be tense for the audience.
Lighting
In the equillibrium where a man is catching a taxi, there is natural lighting and throughout the taxi kidanapping scenes while in open daylight to create a sense of realsim. During the scenes of the band playing which is not part if the narrative, the is no background lighting, but some underlighting on the band mamebers to create a eerie and tense atmosphere. There is no background lighing or other distractions as it wants the audience to focus on the narrative more.
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