DH Technical Analysis

Hozier - Someone New

0-14 Soft focus of lights in the background with titles `Hozier Someone New`, CU of main character as she moves into shot from left
0.24-18 LS track of artist walking along street past cars and bikes while holding guitar case

0.18-24 back to previous shot, woman looking away
0.24-26  MS of artist on stage, out of focus, blue lighting across location with smoke
0.26-29 CU of main character looking into distance while on rooftop in city, aerial in midground
0.29-31 Slow motion MCU of woman walking through club, pink/purple lighting, extras move around
-34 Jump cuts through club
0.34-44  MS Focus on artist playing bass guitar, zoom to CU, begins to sing, bright light moves behind head
-0.47 BCUs of woman, light flashes and location changes
-0.49 arc shot of performance, bright lights and lens flare
0.49-53 MSs of woman walking through crowd, flash of light- Changes into different woman
0.53-55 MCU of woman walking across shot, main character looking from background
-1.01 Main woman in club leaning against wall looking bored
1.01-06 Resumes arc shot of performance
1.06-08 Canted angle of woman flirting with man on stairs, pink lighting from club mixes with green lighting of man
-1.10 Range of CUs woman and man on stairs looking around
1.10-11 Performance
1.11-13 MS of man and woman kissing in toilets
1.13-15 Pan to artist on stage
1.15-21 Pan to MCU of kissing, door closes turning the screen black
-1.26 Performance intercut with CUs of guitar
1.26-28 MS high angle of woman in left third of shot walking up stairs towards camera, looks at man, man in previous position
-0.32 Performance
1.32-35 MCU tracking, again there is a pink tint to the shot man lights woman's cigarette, person walks past- cuts to different woman in her place
1.35-37 CU over-shoulder shot from behind as woman looks back, neon signs and shops are out of focus in the background
-39 Performance
-42 continuation of previous shot
-45 Performance
1.45-49 MS front of woman walking down street, again with bright colourful lights
-52 Performance
1.52-54 Low angle CU, woman looking at reflection in train window, right third of shot
-58 Performance with over-shoulder shot from artist to audience, the artist head takes up the whole left side while the audience heads line up with the centre line.
1.58-2.00 BCU of man on train moving to music, woman looking at him in background, focus changes from man to woman
2.00-03 MS of the man and woman
-2.05 CU Performance
-2.07 man and woman kissing on train
2.07-08 MCU, low angle, soft focus woman in right third, wakes up on train with reflection, similar to a previous shot
-2.08 BCU Performance
2.08-13 MLS tracking an of two woman at train station, woman in background
-2.16 Performance
2.16-19 MS The two women drinking while walking through corridor in slow motion
-2.20 Performance

-2.31 CU pan track, main character replaces one of the women, laughing and happy, as she walks past camera other woman disappears and is revealed in distance with previous woman
2.31-34 Side CU as woman walks into shot, vehicles go past and bright lights out of focus.
-2.42 Performance
2.43-45 MS main kisses man on bridge
-2.47 Performance
2.47-50 MCU track of kissing
2.50-53 MCU man actually with another woman, pans to main walking past looking back at them
2.53-54 CU of man kissing main again from other side
-2.55 Performance
2.55-58 MCU Woman looks forwards again
-3.10 MS of woman in house intercut with her and the man from bridge kissing in same locations
-3.12 Performance
-3.29 same format as previous shots
-3.20 Performance
-3.20-3.22 MS of woman and man on rooftop, colourful but faint lighting across location,
-3.25 Performance
-3.30 BCU of  woman looking in mirror looking sad intercut with her on rooftop with man
-3.31 Performance, coloured bulbs scattered around
-3.36 MS of woman and man on rooftop, jump cut to her taking off shirt
3.36-37 MCU of main wearing jacket again looking around on rooftop, similar to fifth shot
-3.39 Performance
3.39-41 Soft focus MCU of man taking off  his shirt
-3.42 Performance
-3.46 BCU of main woman looking into distance thoughtful, intercut with her and man kissing
-3.47 Performance
3.47-49 BCU looking into distance again eyes closed
-3.50 Together on rooftop
3.50-52 BCU of woman's head sinking into arms
3.52-53 Performance, low angle CU of artist silhouetted against lights
3.53-56 Zoom on main character on rooftop staring into distance breathing heavily
3.56-4.02 Low angle BCU of artist, fade to black

This video intercuts performance with a narrative. While the performance aspect is fairly basic it does have some interesting techniques such as continuing an arc shot through several shots, and the use of lighting to highlight the artists face. A large proportion of performance is used, especially when changing scenes or implying a change in time in the narrative, however the narrative still has prevalence. This narrative appears to have two realities, the real one where the woman is lonely and the imagined one where she takes the place of others and imagines relationships with them. Framing of the characters is quite important in the film which almost always uses rule of thirds. Soft focus is used regularly as well as some very interesting shot transitions, generally using a change in lighting which would be difficult to recreate but would be very effective and convey professionalism and solid planning of our piece.