White Lies- Farewell to the Fairground

In this video we can recognise the main composition rules used in common media. The video sticks strictly to the rule of thirds throughout the piece. Weather it is a shot of the artist (1:19) to a wide shot of landscape (0:10) .we also see that the lead singer has been placed in the middle of the frame to be portrayed as a villain (1:26) which binds in with the songs lyrics as the dominant male who is struggling with the relationship with a woman in plane view but looking at the bigger picture, with life itself, which is the basis of the song, the struggle of life. This point is being put forward by the composition rules in the shots. My group and I will use these same rules to put forward our different message. The White Lies video breaks the subtlety of placing a message behind an abstract composition rule in context with the surroundings and colours in (0:10-0:20) when we see the character walking through the snow whilst singing the lyrics ‘it’s a dream that’s growing cold’, this is a good example of effectively stating the obvious and breaking the subtlety of composition rules.