Radiohead part 2

Sorry I didnt finish Radiohead yesterday- we got a film through from lovefilm so we watched that instead. Anyway heres:

Lighting
There is heavy use of non natural lighting throughout the video. My impression is it was filmed at night time (because of the black sky) but thinking about it the audience cant really tell because its in black and white. However the lighting is too strong just to be natural even if it was filmed in the daytime so some unnatural lighting is used. This is definitely apparent on the close up of Thom's face during the blurry face close up scenes, their is heavy use of the light and shadow effect. On some occasions the light is moving from 1 side of his face to another.

Editing
Throughout the whole video the editing generally follows the rhythm, the cuts happen on a beat. Because some of it is in slow motion in some parts of the video the speed of editing is slow. However there are other parts where the speed is high. The whole video follows the reverse/ manipulation/ confusion of time and space styles of editing. It is all over the place. There is no continuity and is not in order apart from the first falling part and then the end rising up part. These two bits are the start and the end and actually appear at the start and end. There is use of normal speed, a variety of slow motion amounts(sometimes really slow, other times only slightly) and sped up bits all mixed up. Sometimes in the video some bits are slow down but other bits are normal speed, for example when Thoms running(hes in slow-mo) but the boy is at normal speed or when the backgrounds in slow-mo but the foreground is not. The only way this could have been done is with the use of greenscreen/bluescreen. There is also the layering of Thoms face over another shot of his face already mentioned. Finally one very interesting edit is the slowing down of Thom singing so the vocals in the music dont match with the vocals shown being sung. This is very unique and I have never seen this done before.

And finally Camerawork
Firstly the film stock used/quality of the film used doesnt seem to be the average used. It is slightly lesser quality which gives the video a slight grainyness, only slightly but is noticeable. THis will have been done for effect, it makes it look older. Also even though we get lots of close ups of Thom's face he rarely looks at the camera- getting away from the direct address to the audience/ performance conventions, a play on his star status maybe. There a mix of various shot distances(close ups, mid shots, long shots etc) and a mix of angles and views, for example from up above looking down at Thom. There is also hardly any camera movement (eg pans, zooms). There are a couple of tiny tiny bits, ie a bit on the close up of the dog and a bit on 1 of the nun close ups. These two are hardly noticeable, so much so originally i thought there wasnt any but then thought surely there must be and I went through slowly and very closely. The only noticeable bit of camera movement is right at the end where Thom rises up, however i have my suscions that it is not the camera moving but because of greenscreen it is just the background moving upwards which come to think about would have still had to be filmed but its definitely not Thom moving.

And thats the end of my analysic of Radiohead's street spirit (fade out).