Counted Shots

The pop video I chose to look at was What Makes You Beautiful – One Direction. This is quite a fast paced upbeat song so I expected it to have a very large amount of shots used. After counting, the song had around 150 shots, as the song was 3.27mintues I personally thought it would have had more. However, many of the shots were tracking shots which kept it interesting for the audience and they also used the fade in and out editing effects. This is what managed to keep the video interesting, rather than just switching from one to the other. The video included a variety of shots, such as an establishing shot, tracking shots, high angle, low angle, close ups and medium shots. The video was a mixture of narrative and performance so the shots used helped to portray this.