Tube Chop Analysis - Richard Ashcroft, A Song For the Lovers

This video has given us a lot of inspiration for our own and we hope to create similar effects to this one. The tube chop's below will show which aspects we hope to adapt to our video and area's of it that have inspired us.



This clip shows off well the idea of isolation and lonliness and this is something we want to portray in our video as it fits in well with the song we have chosen. We also like the aspect when he turns on the stereo and the song starts playing. We think this is a really effective use of the amplification/disjuncture genre as he is listening to the song that he has sung. We hope to adapt this idea into our video and we plan to use it but instead with a docking station, and it will be slightly more obvious that our actor is the singer of the song.




In this clip where he is getting ready in the bathroom and singing the odd few word along to his song, we think it is really effective for the genre and we are impressed with the camera work as we are trying to figure out a way of filming in a mirror without the camera being seen. Our video will take inspiration from this clip as we hope to use the idea of having the main actor/singer singing along whilst the background song is playing.



The reason we have selected this part if the video is because we think the camera work is really effective when it goes in to a close up of his face. We can see his emotions really clearly and we can tell that he is confused and thinking about something and he is also feeling lonely. I think this piece of camera work if used in our video could work really well when we need to show our singers emotions before and after we see the flash backs.