Performance shots are used in many videos of all sorts of genres as they allow the audience to see the band in action and can create a facade that the viewer is watching them perform like they would if they were watching them live. Many performance shots are similar in the fact that it is just the artist or band lip-syncing their song, sometimes with added props or instruments so I decided that I wanted to find a performance video that brought something new to performance shots as I know them. I remember watching, one of my favourite bands, McBusted's "Air Guitar" when it first came out and it came to mind when thinking of a new performance shot.
For a majority of the video McBusted are seen in a hall and are playing their instruments and lip-syncing while being surrounded by and cheered on by a crowd of, presumably, there fans. To match the song lyrics the instruments and sometimes even a band members body disappears, just like a air guitar would not actually be there! It is a clever use of performance shots that still match the lyrics of the song in such a interesting way.
My favourite shot in the entire video is when the band is 'teleported' to a field with no instruments. This could be a metaphor for how the hall filled with their fans is actually all in their mind as they play their air instruments. The editing on this particular scene is amazing as it is so smooth and all of this scene is still a performance shot and it adds something new to the video rather than them simply standing, singing and playing their instruments.
This video is really creative and if my group and I decide to use performance shots I defiantly want to add something new to the shot, just like McBusted have done, to make the sequence more visually interesting.
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