Analysis: Painted By Numbers... by The Sounds

I like this intro of the vocalist walking up to the mic. It relates to the music as the music is just beginning to build up to the vocalist. I think this might be good for my music video intro, as my song also starts of acoustically. On top of this, this would fit in well with my existing ideas for this first bit, which include having shots of foot tapping and instruments without revealing the artist.
Some other aspects of this clip is the voyeurism. The camera focuses on the female vocalist's groin area as she bends down (rather impractically) to get the mic.

This quick tube chop just shows the transition that is used here. The transition is merely to a closer view of the same thing, but I think the use of a transition here works well. It makes it more visually appealing. The transition itself links to the theme of boxes throughout the video.
I decided to point this out as transitions is something I haven't thought to much about. I'm not really very imaginative when it comes to transitions and i am in danger of using generic fades too much. Thus, I am looking at videos for inspiration in different transitions. This particular transition might work well with the shot that I pointed out in Analysis: Human.


This thing with the boxes would probably be quite easy to do. I think that I would only need one of those boxes and could just film the song for each band member individually. I imagine that I could then do the moving effects in After Effects or something. For the later scenes, which include black boxes. I could do the same thing but repaint the box black. I do like this box idea as I believe I could use it in my music video. If the band members wore straight jackets or something, and there was crazy writing all over the walls, it would create an asylum-type look.

Here is a slideshare listing a number of shots and their effects from this video.