Timed Analysis - Radiohead - Lotus Flower (Performance)

Radiohead - Lotus Flower
This video is a performance based video, featuring the vocalist dancing and signing in an empty room. The video was shot in black and white, which creates a gloomy atmosphere, which fits the song. The song is upbeat, as he is dancing, yet has a moody and gloomy tone.

0:00-0:16 - The camera is positioned in a mid shot perspective to the subject, pointing at him diagonally from his left. The camera has a narrow depth of field, focusing sharply on his as he dances.
0:17-0:21 - Cuts to a front facing long shot of him. He is obscured in the shadows, out of reach of the spotlight. It begins with the conclusion to the dance move he was doing in the previous shot
0:21-0:23 - Mid shot pointing at him diagonally, this time from his right. He is in the left side of the frame and the camera is focused sharply on him.
0:23-0:27 - diagonal close up shot of his head and shoulders as he dances. His body leans to the right of the frame, with his arms spreading wide.
0:27-0:32 - A short series of dance moves. There is a cut between them, cutting from a mid shot with him in the centre of frame to a mid shot with him in the left of the frame
0;32-0:34 - Mid Shot from a profile perspective, as he twists his hands and raises them above his head.
0:34-0:37 - Two mid shots of two parts of the same dance move, one from the front, one from his side
0:37-0:40 - A side on shot of a dance move, then a jump cut to a front facing mid shot which show the end of the dance move.
0:40-0:47 - Diagonal mid shot as he raises his arms into the air then brings them down into another dance move.
0:47-0:51 - Jumpcut that shows a close up front facing shot of him shaking his arms in the air, then the same but from a mid shot profile perspective
0:51-1:00 - Front facing wide angle mid shot with him positioned in the centre.
1:00-1:10 - He begins to sing, putting his hands in his pockets
1:10-1:14 - Cuts to mid shot perspective has he puts his hands in the air and waves them
1:14-1:20 - Cuts back to mid shot perspective, tracking shot as he sinks to his knees then starts to jerk his arms to the side.
1:21-1:32 - He finishes doing the dance move, and as he stands up again, flailing his arms. The camera tracks his movement as he gets up
1:32-1:37 - Jumpcut to him dancing and signing the chorus. Mid shot.
1:37-1:47 - Cuts to a long shot of his whole body
1:47 - The Chorus ends with a mid shot again.
2:04-2:10 - A long shot of him standing still as he begins to sing the bridge
2:10-2:35 - Cuts to a closeup shot as he lifts his arm in the air
2:35-2:48 - Cuts back to Mid shot perspective as he brings his hand down onto the edge of his hat and dances quickly around the room.
2:48-3:00 - Profile shot from his left. Low Key Lighting has been used, as his right side is lit with as spotlight, meaning a hard shadow is cast across his left side.
3:00-3:06 - Long shot - Full body shot as he shakes around
3:07-3:22 - Camera moves to a very wide angle long shot perspective, showing most of the room as he stumbles around it. The shot is a high angle shot, making him look small
3:22-3:25 - Cuts to another long shot, closer to the subject than the other one. Less of a high angle. It shows him walking backwards crouched down and clapping his hands
3:25-3:29 - Two jump cuts into two long shots of him in different positions while clapping
3:29-3:49 - Close up high angle shot of his face as he sings the chorus again. The camera slowly pans upwards, turning the shot from a high angle shot into a eye level shot.
3:49-3:52 - Profile perspective mid shot from his left as he puts his hands together in front of his face. There is a pause in the vocals and a short drum interlude
3:52-4:12 - mid shot as he carries on singing the chorus. He starts with his hands together then slowly moves them out to the sides of his head, before bringing them back in while nodding his head
4:12-4:20 - profile mid shot from his left as his sings the final lines of the chorus. He takes his hat off with one hand and lifts it out of frame then back down onto his head.
4:20-4:22 the camera cuts to a wide angle shot, where he has shrunk to his knees and is dancing while holding his hat
4:22-4:31 - He stands up fully as he sings the final note of the song, then begins to dance more erratically. This is a long shot, the camera is in the same position as the previous shot but his whole body is now in frame.
4:31-4:36 - He dances closer towards the camera until he is captured from a mid shot perspective, then dances back to where he is captured from a long shot perspective
4:36-4:39 - Jump cut to a long shot from his left as he dances towards the back of the room
4:39-4:40 - Long shot from the front as he twists his body and moves his arms rapidly
4:40-4:42 - Mid shot from his right side as he continues this dance move
4:42-4:49 - wide angle midshot from the front as he continues to dance
4:49-4:52 - Two short takes of his dancing, each a mid shot. One from his left followed by one from his right
4:52-4:56 - four short takes of his clapping along to the music, first a mid shot, then a very wide angle long shot in which he's obscured by shadows, then back to a mid shot, then back to a long shot
4:56-5:00 - Final shot - Long shot, wide angle as he slowly freezes his arms into one position. fades to black throughout the shot.

Audience Survey - Responses

Our Audience Questionnaire has given us an insight into what our final ideas and script should include. We have learnt both what people are generally want from a music and what people generally don't like in a music video. 

One of the things we have learnt is what our demographic is. We discovered that the large majority is female and ages 16-18. They are also almost all daily listeners of music, with the preferred genre being Indie/Alternative. It also seems that a majority of our audience think that narrative music videos are the best type of music video, which tells us that we should create a narrative music video as we originally planned. Also, our video should be somewhere between one long shot and lots of shots with fast paced editing, which is similar to what we had planned. 

However, the majority of the responses said that a music video should have some element of performance. However, we feel that our video works best without performance included, therefore we are going to add that in. We had started to plan the locations as we were brainstorming ideas, as we thought that was a very important aspect to the visual outcome of the video. This has has been reflected to be true based on the questionnaire, as a large majority said location was very important.

Our video was originally intended to be shot in Black and white, however, the survey shows that black and white videos are not popular, therefore we have decided to shoot in colour instead. Based on themes, a lot of responses said youth is often portrayed negatively, therefore our video of portraying youth as fun contrasts to usual portrayal of youth in the media.