Analysis of Gojira - The Shooting Star.

This music video by Gojira is a very abstract performance based piece of expression. It starts off with the band playing their music but the contrast and colour of everything is always changing in a psychedelic trance infusion between band member and a different range of colours then moves to these animations of astronomical based environments which although the songs title is based around astronomy none of the lyrics directly stood out to me as referring to space. Therefore making a lot of the animation especially when its featuring floating masks and golden glowing hands combined with the ever changing colours that are engrossing the band quite an abstract music video.

It is possibly because of this that gives the video its repeatability due to the audience trying to work out to what extent does these glowing astronomical environments fit with what Joe Duplantier is singing about. Therefore making the visuals in disjuncture to the song however I would combine that with some aspects of amplification because of the repetitive themes and its because of that makes the music video stick in your head and therefore relevant to amplification.

The technical aspects of this video are consistent throughout featuring a repetitive use of close ups of the band with their instruments taking up the center of the shot, some of the guitar shots are low angle shots where as the rest of the band is pretty consistently head height straight medium/close ups, followed by long takes of long shots of astronomical environments which are mostly slow moving tracking shots. That sequence repeats pretty frequently with a repetitive use of high saturated color which is what makes this video an abstract piece of expression.

 This is an example of the psychedelic performance depictions of the band (above) whereas below is an example of the strange unique astronomical environments which are used in this music video.