Friend (Lover) by Evenings
As you can see this is not exactly a conventional music video song typical students usually use. The fact that this student has chosen a song that does not include lyrics is unconventional. The main focus of this song is purely based on the music, which leaves the student's concept ideas very wide.
However, even though the song contains very little words we can still apply Goodwin's Theory to this student's previous work. Goodwin's Theory includes the relationship between music and visuals, this particular video clearly shows a link between the beat of the music and the visuals. During the first 40 seconds of the sequence it is very fast paced and in time with a new beat of the song, relating to Goodwin's theory.
I think this was the strongest aspect of Goodwin's theory this student has applied particularly because of their song choice, we see that they also feature many close up's of 'the artist' throughout their video.
In terms of camerawork in the video, this is my favourite aspect. Their use of camera angles and movement throughout this student work is immaculate. There are many different shot variations and the movement of the camera is done very smoothly with a wide set of movement.
My particular favourite is the beginning shot of the 'artist' lying on the floor and we get a close up of his face but then the camera moves to a canted low angle shot and then back to a normal close up.
Another favourite shot of mine is the ink being dropped in a clear vase of water, I thought the simplicity of dropping ink into a clear vase of water creates a great effect to the video itself.
With the mise en scene in this video we only really see natural settings of a forest and field, however, because of the concept this video reflects it is very appropriate therefore relates very well to the video.
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