This is a music video directed by Sönke Held for the electronic musician Felix Kubin. The video is basically showing a man bringing a woman back to life, and supernatural happenings in the house that they are in. I really like the mis-en-scene in this video, especially the settings. I like the decaying walls and how the whole house in very run down. In my work, I hope that I can find a wall like this to use somewhere in it. Also, I really like the use of light and shadows, the build up the tension and keep the audience on edge as they cannot always see what is happening. Probably one of the best bits of the video is where the male lead has the lightning bolts in his hands (2:05) and is moving them around. I like this editing technique of making the character jitter and repeat himself; I will definitely use this in my work as it can seem unnatural.
Another part of this video that I like is the soft green/blue tone over the top of everything; this makes the video seem mystical. I may use a tone over the top of my video to take it look like this, but this just depends on how good the lighting in the video is. At 2.20 in the video, the female lead is seen to split from her soul; this is something that I will be using in my work. Once I have ‘killed’ the character, his soul will come out him and leave him. I decided to use this technique to show the audience that he is definitely not alive anymore.
One more part of this video that I like is where the female lead starts to dance after being brought back to life (1.46 – 2.00). I don’t think that I will include dancing in my video, but I will definitely use some of the angles that are used. I like how the power shifts from the female to the male and the camera is moved from looking up at her, to then looking down at her.
