Song: Primo Victoria
Artist: VAN CANTO
Producer: Napalm Records
Purpose:
The song was artist self-produced in dedication to one of their favourite bands
called ‘Sabaton’
Styles:
Homage: The song
is homage to the band called ‘Sabaton’ and the band singer called Joakim Brodén
as the song is a remake in a Capella style and featured the original Singer
Joakim himself.
Live: The way in
which the video has been filmed is to make it seem as if the band is playing
live. The reasons for this in my opinion is that it fits the video better that
an action video of World War 2 because It features another singer and It is not
the original version of the song so it would be a waste when it came to
resources such as money.
Narrative: The narrative
of this video is that the song’s lyrics are about 6th June 1944
during D-day in world war two and about the troops storming onto the beach.
Conventions:
Lyric Interpretation: The interpretation of the lyrics is that it talks form a soldiers point of view
of D-Day in World War 2 while the soldiers were storming into the frontline from
the ocean.
Techniques:
Lighting: The
lighting is used to light the location using a simple 3 point lighting setup.
The Key camera shines from next to the camera directly at the scene with the
fill light and the back light from each side. The lights are dimmer than usual
because it highlights the singers/ band members while keeping the background darkened.
Camera Shots: The camera focuses mostly on mid-shots and
wide shots
Camera Movements:
The camera movements involving fast panning and zooming across the screen into
and out of people’s faces and actions. This is to match the pace of the song
and to match the lyrics in its description of war and is a representation of
how chaotic it was.
Miming/ lip syncing:
The actors seem to be singing to the song but in my opinion, It would have been lip synced after being performed in a recording studio. Hints of this are the rapid camera movements which are to fast to each other to keep the song complete if done live and the unnecessary movements that the singers make which would put a lot of strain between the singing and the movements in their body.
Chroma Key:
chroma key is used and focused on Joakim Making him seem more important that
the band and the reasons for this is because the band is featuring him within
this video and the fact that he was the lead singer of ‘Sabaton’, the people
who created the original version of the song. The effects used are that he is
made out to be black and white on a red drop background so that he stands out
from the rest of the scene.
Cutting to beat: In this video, it seems that the producer of
the video decided to do the opposite of cutting to the beat by instead focusing
the camera onto people when they started something new such as a different
background sound such as 2.19 to 2.21 where it cuts from Joakim to the girl
just because she has started to sing for effect.
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