music video, Come A Little Closer task 8 pt 3

anylsis of music video : Come A Little Closer - Cage The Elephant

The entirety of the music vidoe is filmed on a green screen. The green screen throughout shows a psychedelic world, in which the band members travel through and encounter bizzare creatures and monsters. The band memebers begin by wearing normal modern clothes resemberling their natural self, when they begin peforming the song in this world their costumes change. We see them then wearing 70's inspire suits. The 70's were known for their use of acid, this resembles the music vidoe as it connotes one large acid trip. Their costumes chnaging hints that they have been devoured by this acid world and joined it. 
During the peformances they sing lyrics of 
"Come a little closer than you see         come on come on
  Things arent always what they seem to be    come on come on
  Do you understand the things that you've been seeing      come on come on
  Do you understand the things that you've been dreaming"

The lyrics demonstrate how everything you see may not really be what you seen, Suggesting having a trip takes you into the real psychedelic world, you cant see to the natural eye.
It could also suggest mental illness and how brains are wired in different ways... whos to say whats normal?

Whilst peforming, the band stand in a sterotypical formation, This relates to the stereotypical conventions of a band. This is then contradicted when images of them are repeated on screen, so there are three of them. Or they have vibrations of colour sprouting off all corners of them. Or the colour of their skin is multicoloured. It just shows the bizzareness of the video and again all adds to the trip.

Lighting
High key lighting used in the studio whilst filming the band on the green screen. They are very brightly lit so they can stand out amoungst all of the chaos that is continuing around them. The lighting is shining on them in which direction they are looking at. For example, when Matt Shultz (lead singer of the band) is riding on a fire beast around space, he is facing the sideways, you can see the lighting shining on him the way he's facing, rarther on his side profile. This just helps audiences to see the band members.

Editing
The pace of the editing is done with the beat of the music. I love this affect because it helps the video the really flow with the music and create more of an effect overall. When the pace of the song is music quite fast, especcially during the chorus, it has really fast pace editing and gets extra trippy by roating clips and sliding them around. During slow pace sections ( bridge and verses ) the pace of the editing is much more slow with longer clips and more of a narrative. 

Camera
The camera stayed still majority of the time, and just allowed movement to be going on within the green screen and the actors moving. It created a visual affect of the band memebers running through the world. 
Close up were used when filming the peformance of the band to show them singing etc. 

What inspires me from this music video
I like craziness of this video and the underlining tone to it. I want my video to be colourfull, bright and eyecatching; like this music  video.