Alt-J -Matilda
This is the music video to the song Matilda by the band Alt-J. Both the song and the video are 3 minutes and 49 seconds long, meaning that the song is synchronised completely with the video. Like U2's video to their song One, the video consists of only one shot, although there is the difference that the U2 video pans across the single shot whereas this music video is actually a lot of different shots which have been merged together to make one long shot with editing using a software such as Final Cut.
I really like this video and I think it's clever how it's only one shot which doesn't pan or even move, yet there's a lot involved in it and it doesn't get boring in my opinion. With the video involving the four different faces of the band members intertwining and slowly fading over one another to make it look as if they're slowly changing into each other, the video would have required a lot of time and effort by having to keep the camera completely still and making sure that the band members stood in the exact position against the wall in front of the camera so that they fit one another's faces. The setting of the video is unclear and all that is involved is a white brick wall which could connote to an urban setting and feeling and this is the only mise en scene that is revealed.
All that is required to make this music video is a camcorder, preferably an HD one, a tri-pod and some people to feature in the video. You also need an editing software such as Final Cut or Sony Vegas which enables you to overlap the separate shots and merge them to make one; this isn't hard to do once the feature has been practised but could be very time consuming.
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