The Strokes - Reptilia

Camera frames and shots 

My influential music video is Reptilia by The Strokes. The intial reason I chose this was because it matched our genre, Garage Rock. However, it was most influential because of the chosen camera frames and the chosen shots. There are a whole lot of close-ups of the instruments and band members. The close-ups are very creative and stylish such as the shot of the drummer's shoe. From this we decided to input close-ups of instruments we are playing in the music video because we thought it would add style to our video. We will vary our shots because, like in this video, we will be playing in a studio therefore I think we will need different camera frames and different camera shots to vary it up because the audience don't want the same camera shots when it cuts back to us playing in the studio as our music video is going to be more than 3 minutes long. In the music video, there are close-ups of the whole band but mainly on the singer and especially when he sings. Close-ups of the band is a pretty common convention but still signinficant because close-ups is way for the audience to identify with the band.  From watching this video,  we will use close-ups of the band members faces to identify with our audience and shots of the instruments to vary our shots and close-ups of the insturments e.g. the guitar neck to add style.