Always - PERFORMANCE

The Performance of Always (Architects, 2007)

The performance part of the video takes up around 60-70% of the video. There are 8 different shots throughout the performance and 220 cuts. Each band member gets one beauty shot and there is a second shot from a different angle of the drum kit. There is one wide shot of the whole band and a worms eye shot which is used only once at the very end of the video.

There is a black screen lasting 11 frames at 01:54:20 of the original video where there is silence in the music. I linked this with the Performance cuts.

The ratio of band members is very interesting. The vocalist got 97 cuts lasting 01;17;15,and the drummer got 54 lasting a total of 00;36;10. The guitarists have a very odd ratio as well. One guitarist and the bassist get about 5-7 seconds each whereas the other guitarist gets 15 seconds, basically double what they had. This may have been a choice from the band because one member did not want to be seen so much, or maybe that the other guitarist gave a much more interesting performance. The beauty shots are very interestingly done, all hand held from the looks of things and zooming in and out on important details of each member. The drummer's beauty shot is especially odd as it is at first an almost static high angle shot on the kit, but at 02;21 in the original video it changes to a beauty shot to get tighter angles on the drummer.

There are two shots in the performance which feel like they shouldn't be there, one at 01;42;16 and another at 02;19;04. My theory is that they needed to fill up space and these shots looked especially convincing. I think this as I doubt that they would have filmed a whole other take of the vocalist and only used it for a total of 25 frames!

Here is the shot list;