2). Drowning Pool - Bodies
Date: May 14, 2001
Label:Wind-up records
Genre: Nu Metal
Director: Glen Bennett
Audience: Nu metal/ metal fans
Mise en scene:
- Set in a mental asylum
- very desaturated colours add to the erie vibe
- black and white clothing, very desaturated
- certain scenes set at night time
Camerawork:
- Use of fish-eye lenses to simulate looking hole through a door and also the lens of surveillance cameras
- panning using a track and dolly
- close up shots
- High and low angled shots
- Breaking the 180 degree rule to make the audience feel disorientated
Editing:
- Jump cuts occur very often to match the fast pace of the song
- footage of the band and actors appear on the screen of the TV
- shot reverse shot style of editing the footage where two different shots are constantly being switched between each other
- shots switch when the singer counts down to the chorus
Performance:
- Actor in the chair does a very believable performance of a mental patient.
- singer performs as a doctor in a mental ward
- Band are rather hyper when performing the song with instruments
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