Smallpools-dreaming

Concept
The concept of this is basically a guy trying to get away or go home from a party, but he simply just cant escape it. what they are doing is amplifying the fact that he is dreaming and he cant escape from this dream, this could be seen to match certain ideas from movies such as 51 dates and ground hog day, they have quite similar concepts.

Mise en scene
The mise en scene is has an obvious projection following that of a normal and typical english/american party (with large cups, beer-pong etc) a full house. It follows sterotypical party movie themes in terms of mise en scene, we see a lot of girls, there is music playing etc. The clothing being worn is just the typical average everyday dress, which is quite common to see in movies.

The close ups on his face help us to see his mood, at first we see him looking worried or concerned but as it drags out other close ups suggest that has given up and is just going to carry on enjoying the party or is just bored of trying to run .

Editing
The song  itself is quite fast paced, the editing matches this pace to keep the person watching enticed and interested in where the video might be going. The graphic matching is very clever as well and makes it a lot more enjoyable to watch for example this is seen when he goes to sit down on the sofa and instead of falling on the sofa he falls in to a pool, or when he goes to pen the door into his house he opens the door back into the party instead.

Camera
through out most of the video we really only capture and follow the person singing through out the song playing both the artist and the character in the music video as close ups or medium shots ,as it is him we a following and seeing throughout the whole video, however there is quite a lot of free hand recording, this could shows us a more POV perspective as if we are someone at the party.

Theorists

Micheal Shore, In this there is a lot of cliche imagery, this means there isn't anything really that is completely new, we have all seen these party videos before, there are hundreds of other videos just like this. We also see information overload, a lot of information is given to you quickly this could also relate to immediate gratification and simulated experience

In this video we clearly have the narrative however we also have performance clips. There is a light use of commercial exhibitionism as he is trying to sell himself through the use of following onlly him through out the video, the video is also a televised bard as he is telling a story, of ihis dream and how couldnt escape it

Andrew Goodwin's theory can be shown as well star imagery is show as the person acting the video is also seen preforming and singing the song, the repeated words of dreaming are amplified into our head so its clear to us he is trying to tell us he is stuck in a dream