Radiohead - Creep acoustic

Band/Artist: Radiohead

Record Label: XL TBD

Music Genre: Rock/experimental rock/alternative

Video director: Laith Bahrani (a.k.a 'Monkeehub)

Notes:

Camera:

This piece uses a remarkable technique by only using one camera shot throughout the whole video, this being a long shot.

Sound:

no added diegetic or non diegetic sound

only audio track can be heard

Editing:

extremely long shot, action on screen matched the pace of the music

quickening when fast and slow when slow.

Mise en scene:

animated props include, office supplies/equipment, additional background characters, buildings, cityscape

Narrative:

sad, dull, dark,

Genre:

acoustic, rock, indie, alternative

This is Radiohead's music video for their acoustic version of creep. This animated video was made by Monkeehub the animation studio that also made the animated music video for Nizlopi's song - JCB song.

Monkeehub have created their own particular style of animation which is clear through both these videos.

This animation  has used a very unique style by using only one shot through the whole video which is a long shot. Just like the JCB song it centralizes the main character drawing attention to them whilst other narratives unfold around them. This style gives the audience a view of the characters singing throughout whilst the background environment changes allowing this sense that the characters stay centralized and don't change creating the main focus for the viewer and creating a sense of continuity throughout the animation. This style of minimal shots and shot types gives this video its own unique feel. Most music videos have very little ambient sound, and this one has none just the music audio. The sound again as in all most successful music videos runs parallel to the editing with slow paced visuals to match the smooth calming music and fast visuals during faster changes in the musical sequence. The editing is used well to match the sound from 2:50 to 3:37 where the pace changes and the director has successfully matched the audio to the video so that it is smooth and flowing. Also editing has been used with mise en scene and the SFX animation to create an X-ray style effect throughout the video, making the props appear layer by layer, seen on the character at 1:41, this draws the audiences attention to key aspects of the mise en scene which in turn link with the narrative of the audio lyrics and help create the interesting changes in the characters environment. The mise en scene has been used in conjunction with the narrative of the song to create visual stimulants to keep the viewers engaged. The narrative of the song lyrics don't particularly fit the narrative of the video as the do so much in JCB song but the overall depressing/sad feel of the song is definately mirrored in the dark and dull colours of this video and the characters dark actions eg. jumping out a window. The SFX is very high quality and follows the style of hand drawn characters ,smilier to the JCB song, rather than complex 3D images and textures, this is possibly due to the fact they are made by the same animation studio and this seems to be their house style. 

The genre of music this band produces is rock and alternative but this version here is there acoustic version of it creating a mellower feel, more suited to animated videos. The slow paced visuals and dark/depressing environment mirror the feel of the music. This kind of narrative is something The director has very effectively used this kind of narrative in here to create a video that will resonate with the viewers when the watch it.