Rudimental - Waiting all Night feat. Ella Eyre (Drum and Bass)
Camera and Editing/ Sound
From the start of the video we see a hand held camera shot following
a couple of friends on BMXs which also seems to be a point of view of camera
shot due to the amount of camera shake and looking around. The video switches
to different people's point of view and even shows other people filming their
journey. A scene comes up where one of the riders gets hit by truck from the
point of view of the guy behind him which then shows the camera slam to ground
as they go try help. It cuts to black and then again shows hand held camera
shots, zooming in into people’s faces in the hospital and recording the person
that got hit showing his emotion. This camera shot type is used throughout the
whole film showing people's emotion and point of view of everyone and gives it a
homemade video feel. The music video’s lyrics to the song are repetitive with
the main words being “tell me that you need me” “tell me that you want me” and “I’ve
been waiting all night” and starts off with a low volume and as the video shows
the injured shows him recovering the volume of the singer increases, also the
lyrics of the doesn’t illustrate the narrative video but gives the feeling of
motivation. The video has got no sound, only the music in the background like a
montage of the person who got hit by a truck and how he recovers and tries to
go back to normal. The video cuts to black every time a section of his life is
shown and shows how he recuperates.
Mise-en-scene
The video seems to be set in the streets of San Francisco,
California due to the sunny weather and everyone wearing loose fitting clothes
and also the videos shows house parties and BMX areas to do tricks and jumps.
The clothing the people are wearing is generic to skaters and BMX riders with
snap backs, t-shirts and cargo shorts and traditional white trainers, making
the video seem realistic and make you think it’s a live video. Make up is used
on the person that had the accident to show the distress and weakness after the
accident on his face, but other than that you can’t tell if the other actors
are wearing makeup. The actors in the
video seem to be professional skaters and BMX riders by how easy they do the
tricks and stunts which again give the video that realism feel. The lighting in
the video seems to be natural light and doesn’t seem to have been added any
colour gradients of special effects.
