HUMAN LEAGUE – DON’T YOU WANT ME

Scene 1

Crane shot to show car’s arrival where a girl is stood. Multiple cuts while girl is entering the car.The car drives off to reveal another car waiting in the dark (headlights turn on).

The shot then changes to close up of Philip Oakey (lead singer) lip syncing the words. This shot is continuously cut to throughout the video.

The shot changes back to the car that has followed her pulling up into screen after seeing her enter a house.

This then changes to a long shot of her returning to her car to retrieve a bag.

There is then a medium shot showing the perpetrator inside the car pulling out the gun whilst looking at her (intent of killing her is presumed)

This shot zooms out to reveal that it is on an editing screen being viewed by a man at a desk. The images on the screen then begin to rewind (through what we have seen) this shows that she is editing/analysing the images.

The shot changes to a two-shot to reveal that Oakey is behind the man looking at the images on screen.

The shot cuts to a close up of a woman in the exact lighting as Oakey was in his close up and similar dark make-up. This brings forward the assumption that this is the woman Oakey is singing about.

The shot turns back to the editing room door where the girl from the previous shot enters the room and takes of her coat.

Her entrance causes a glance from the editor (shown via close up) but most importantly a look from Oakey who almost stares at her showing that there are feelings he has for her

The scene changes to a theatre where (by the looks of the characters on screne) they have been studying the shots they have taken for a long time.

The shot changes to show Oakey (in focus in the background) looking at the previously mentioned woman whilst in the theatre.

The shot changes focus to show the woman in the foreground not noticing Oakey. This shot shows the relationship and importance of these two characters (possible idea of him loving her but she does not like him back). The importance of these characters is also highlighted when in contrast to the previous men who were slumped and messy when both the woman and Oakey look neat and concentrated.

There are a couple more shots shown in the theatre room of people watching and working before the shot changes back to the original scene where it is scene this time as a movie take.

The shot pans round to see the woman and it tracks her as she walks towards the camera and sings.

She walks right out of the filming area whilst being tracked the whole way. The woman turns back to look at the film sight (were Okey is stood) to sing the line “I still love you” were the shot cuts to a medium shot of Oakey looking out at her then back to her walking.

Previous shots are then repeated until the shot changes back to the editing room where the process of making/editing the film is shown (cutting the reel and sticking it together)

The woman is then seen again in the dark close up but this time singing. The shot cuts from her to Oakey as the sing together.

Shots from the video are repeated from all scenes some are slowed down and some new shots of people cutting and reviewing film reels. A close of shot of the male cutting the film tracks backwards to reveal behind the scenes of filming him in the editing room (irony of showing behind the scenes of him behind the scenes.

This shot goes further when the camera man turns the camera to face a mirror to show those working on the video about people working on a video. It is after this shot that the music video ends.

I picked this music video as firstly, I liked the irony of analysing a music video about making a video in preparation for my music video. The second reason I picked this video is because it stuck out in my memory from when I was a kid, it is interesting and in my opinion very well filmed despite its’ age disadvantage of any recent music video. This video only contains 4/5 scenes (film set, editing room, theatre, dark room for close ups and behind the actual scenes at the end) despite looking very busy the whole way through. This exercise has shown that only a few scenes are needed to create an exciting video which is important to us as we are limited in time for the creation of our course work. This exercise has also brought to light the importance of filming as much as we can in these locations as an important part of making a good music video is being able to cut to and from different scenes. This will be hard for us to do if we only film what we feel we might want rather than filming as much as possible for choice and for inspired changes whilst editing.