Music Video Research - Basshunter - Now You're Gone

Basshunter - Now You're Gone

This opening shot shows the naritive that runs through this music video, about a relationship break-up. This is a very common in music videos to have a story that fits to the song. It is also a very clever shot because it manages to tell the story in a very short space of time so that it can help the viewer to understand the music video a lot faster.

I like this shot because it just shows a cloes up of the female characters shoes and high heals is symbolic of woman going out and cubbing and listning to the genere of music that this song is. I also think that the focus pull works very well here and is used alot in the dance genere.

This is a very clever shot because it cuts from the naritive to shots that we would expect to see in a dance genere music video of a girl dancing with club lights in the background. The lighting is very good in this shot as the girl is just being lit by a back light and so we can only see a syloet of her. The light is triangular and shinning through smoke which creates this very club like effect which is the mood that this  video is trying to create.

I like this shot as the DJ in the background is in focus and the dancing people are out of focus, there is good depth of feild used in this shot. I also like the effect of the lights and the smoke again in the background. Here we also see the narrative and the traditional conventions of a dance track as the story comes into this club, which i think is a very clever way of having a narrative while also keeping to generic dance track music video conventions.

I like the way this video is edited because in the club there are shots of the DJ and then edit to a crowd shot and then edited to a shot of the narrative characters. I think this is a very good way of bringing all the aspects of this music video together. Also the edits are in time with the music, which we have seen in previous music videos. 



I love the use of lighting in this shot to create a silhouette of the hands in this shot. It would have been done using a backlight.