Title: Go Back
Artist: Marketa Irglova
Director: Unknown
Release Date: October 6th 2011
Genre: Folk/Indie
Intro
This song is made entirely out of reversing clips and is very effective with such simple editing done to it. I like this music video because it challenges the conventions of its genre and I really like music video's that can tell a story.
How Many Shots Are There In The Music Video?
Surprisingly there were 49 shots in the music video which is shocking because I expected it to be more because of its type of genre. The shots tend to fade into one another almost merging but not quite.
Where Were The Cuts In The Music Video?
When we first listened to the beat, because of the time signature being 4/4, we thought to make it even and in time the shots would cut on the beat but we found when listening to a certain layer of the music or taking a layer out, the beat sometimes cut to the rhythm of that. So technically it was still in time but in different instruments in the music. We found that the music video was full with jump cuts as it was interchanging with different scenes of objects in different stages of reversing.
Did The Music Video Shrink Or Expand?
From a first glance the music video looked like it was shrinking time because obviously the reverse sequence makes it look like its shrinking but when we looked at it again, we realised that it was indeed expanding time because the objects and actions that were happening have been slowed down like the reversal of the match lighting up and candle burning.
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