What I’m going for – Segaji Video Production
Rather than isolate one of their videos, I’ve viewed them and analysed them as a whole and inevitably their style is quite eclectic. What I’ve noticed from the body of their work is that their documentaries tend to cover artist who’s work is more “physical”. They’ve covered people who paint, design, DJ, snowboard, create architectures. I guess for these types of videos the visual content is more straightforward, they capture the artists’ works – their paintings, garments, accessories, CDs, buildings, snowboarding items…etc, the types of things to they as part of their work – eg. waxing of the snowboard, dipping a brush into ink and painting a wall, or simply what they have – snowboarding gear, CDs, gramophone, DJ mix set.
When they cover a person who does something less tangible for example sing or act, they try capture something in relation to the subject’s speech. For example, one time the subject was talking about their visit to Korea and they shot electricity lines, Korean rooftops, some of the plants that were around. Another time the artist was talking about some of the lyrics in his songs and they shot a tank of fish which I think was meant to represent selfishness. Most likely the problem with my shoots will be that the subject is not really reflected in the content of the my footage.
What I’m not going for:
This is a scene from the film Hero by Zhang Yi Mou, the cinematographer for this film was Christopher Doyle. It’s a mostly a martial arts sequence with bursts of dialogue here and there.
– Music: pattern – quiet, loud, quiet. Soulful voice overlayed and interjected with drums > somewhat matches with the movements of the characters, as their strikes become more intense as does the music. Definitely accentuates the more suspenseful portion of the fight, and “makes way” for dialogue
– Sound effects: swords piercing through the air, cries during combat – probably wildlines, the leaves rustling, the wind blowing against the fabric, the leaping and jumping of the two against trees and the ground, overall the sounds present are all relatively loud though the atmosphere somehow reads as less chaotic to me
– Colour: mostly orange and reds, already vivid from the beginning but the set is “dyed” an even deeper but striking red by the end. Conjures up emotions associated with red – love, passion, frustration, and in this case blood
– Camera: I feel as though there isn’t an angle which hasn’t been used in this scene. The whole duel is made much more dramatic by the dutch tilts, zooms, wide-close-wide shot pattern, the slow-motioned movements, as well as the occasional suspension of action