A Perfect Circle - Judith, Analysis of editing

Immediately noticeable, this video has two effects that are present throughout its duration; the first being the the " box camera" flickers, the procedurally generated effect that imitates a style of camera present in the 70's and 80's, comprised of picture defects sudden and brief flares, as well as an overall grainy image that would have been created from using analogue film. And the camera wiggle/jitter; the entire shot is moving rapidly, i would estimate that the entire mise en scene of this video moves on an x and y axis in both positive an negative fashions by up to 5 pixels every 0.25 seconds. This effect would possibly have been present on "box cameras", but i believe this has been added separately due to the inconsistency's of "jitter" relative to "box camera" flickers. The effect of all this is to capture the audiences attention, this effect is also consistent with the grunge underground genre, grunge music being an alternative style of rock that was created in the 1980's.

The video quickly cuts between shots, this is designed once again to hold the audiences attention. The video has an interesting colour pallet, notably changed in post production, it uses dark greens for the shadows, dirt brown for the mid-tones and pale blue for the highlights, these edits were put in place to help show the audience that the video is clearly of the genre mentioned. Not once within the video is there a fade to black, the attention is always on the band, perhaps showing a degree of narcissism but more likely it is a device used to promote the band, interestingly the subject of the video is the band and the product is the music, this suggests dedication to their music, to emphasise that point, the band is not situated anywhere that could be easily accessed, and nowhere in the video is there any sign of fans meaning their music is more important to them than anything else, this is considered a desirable quality from most genres of music today.

The overall editing does distract from the content of the video, the video is heavily edited, to the point at some key moments in the video that all subjects within the mise en scene are indistinguishable. This creates an experience for the audience that simulates a live performance, full of drama an no clear focus but the music itself. I can take from this, that editing a video in the right way could increase its success dramatically, editing is used in all manner of ways, it reinforces the perceived genre for the music video as well as creating a more enthralling experience for the audience.