Planning for video: Editing and Lighting influence

Here is a clip from the video ‘I almost told you I loved you’ from Papa Roach showing how effective the lighting and editing is to a music video.

You can see that the lighting is key as it causes a dark effect showing that the music more sinful which links to the lyrics.

The mise-en-scene in this video is key, the people in the video are in dark clothes, mostly black which adds to the dark/sinful effect.

The editing has a fast pace to it as well as having many jump cuts. Also the camera is always on the move keeping its fast pace.

The editing that caught my eye was used at 0:19. The camera goes through the people cutting to the singer. You can see also that when the singer walks backwards the camera keeps on tracking him showing his the centre of attention.