"We know I can't construct a poem,

Cause words like girls get bored and run"


I chose The Format's Dog Problems music video as my short piece of linear media.

The significant contribution of the music video, is the editing and filming – using hands as main characters /subjects.

The video begins and ends with a curtain opening and closing, a theatrical format, to start and finish the story.
Almost everything else is obvious jump cuts, mostly to differentiate scenes. Very few times do they zoom in/out or use other techniques for that matter.

The camera is pretty much still the whole time, leaving the subject to do all of the movement within the frame throughout most of the scenes. The actions within the frame create a story with the help of the jump cuts to take one through different scenes to experience the same feelings as the main character. The cuts were appropriate to match the scene to the lyrics (such as coffee, alcohol, camp..etc) which emphasizes on the linear aspect.

There are some "over the shoulder" perspectives, as well se tilting upwards and “eye” level.

The journey cutting back and forth through the scenes take one through his experience that brought him to this point. To pass time they use numerous cuts without dragging out the days. Another thing the music video did to connect the jump cuts was by walking out of the frame thus linking it to a whole story.

Most of the time there is dark lighting and simple backgrounds, which sets the mood and isolates the character.

This all works for the video because at first we get a sense of loneliness then encouragement and motivation.