For the official video for the song that I have chosen, Who Can Say, by The Horrors, are there only 123 shots, on estimate. The song lasts 3:41, usually for a song of this length the amounts of edits would often be around the 200 mark. So having 123 edits is quite rare.
Therefore, I have decided that I am going to keep the amount of shots under 200 edits, and aim for around 150 edits, on estimate. There are two reasons I have decided to do this, firstly because of the drum beat, this song is more guitar/key's heavy, and whilst the song is quick paced, the main drum beat is quite slow. I have posted the song below, and you'll notice that there is a 4 second gap between the drum beats, and although I will still be editing shots inbetween the beat, music videos are quite often edited to the beat of the song.
Latterly, the second reason behind this is the pragmatic reason, the narrative of the song follows frontman, Levi Strummer making a tough decision, and being in a difficult situation about his love life, therefore he must think things through slowly, which would make sense to have Strummer involved in some shots of a longer length, to imply that he is having to think long and hard over his decison.
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