Wednesday, 19 October 2011
NVC on Crystal Castles Celestica music video
The use of
Costume; no costume change from the long black dress suggests that she doesn't like selling her body for the camera. One costume throughout shows how blase she is about image.
Eye Contact; throughout the video she never looks directly into the lens, instead every shot is of her walking or singing looking besides the camera as if the cameras not there. She's not performing for the camera but appears to be in her own little world it seems natural which suits the image of the band.
Posture; mainly she has an upright posture whilst walking, slightly leans on a wall but still quite upright or lies on the grass but again not sprawled out quite straight. As a band they are quite composed, they don't like to give too much away so being always very straight backed keeps the idea that they're not giving much away.
Gestures; they're are no gestures throughout, she isn't trying to sell her performance but the music.
Facial Expressions; no facial expressions are given just the blank look whilst singing.
Space (use of space in location- distance of performers to camera); mid tracking shots and head shots are close enough to see her singing and the performance but not to close to reveal every detail of her face. The closest we see her is when she is laying on her back towards the end of the video which is nice shot that reveals a little bit more than before.
Voice - change to pitch/tone; the pitch and tone of the singer is continuous throughout it does not change.
It appears that she is trying to challenge the conventions of a typical music video as she doesn't reveal much and play to the camera like other musicians do, which creates her unique image.
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