Shot Count - Becca

Shot Count

I choose to make the focus of my research the heavy metal/ hard rock genre, featuring bands from over the decades. This is because our group decided to make a video for a rock song, and that in order to pick a more specific genre and the song we wished to do, we thought we would all research different rock styles to see what was successful amongst the audience.

There is roughly 190 shots in this video, making it fairly fast paced in the way that it's edited, fitting in with the pace of the music. As an older rock/metal song, it features a lot of live performance from one of Iron Maiden's gig. This is typical of the genre, making it a fairly typical video. It often changes shot on a beat of music, and emphasising certain band members at certain points, for instance a drum solo shows the solo, and guitar solo's feature the guitarists, as though it is giving them credit for their parts in the song. There are many shots of the crowd, showing them enjoying themselves, making them feel part of the performance, and showing a lot of interaction between the band and crowd is also a typical thing of the genre. It also features clips from a black and white film, in which a woman is being sacrificed, which is also fairly fast paced and dramatic, fitting in with the title of the song and relating to sacrifice.