Apart from the beginning long shot, the music video is shot in POV of the ball that is thrown. This choice of camera angle sits well with the song as the title is 'Take A Walk'. The first person perspectives gives the audience a feeling that it is them who is on this journey. The duration of shot is fairly long as there is only cuts between the scenes such as when they go though the clouds and not as they are in the scene. In terms of varying pace, that is done by the speed of the shot, some have been speed up a little for example the farmer moving his hay and others are left as they were filmed.
The camera shots used are also very similar with it being held in a long shot for the majority of the video apart from at the begging and the bike crash scene. The usage of the long shot enables the audience to get a wider picture of the places that the camera is 'taking' them, it almost acts as a nostalgic trip back through all the places life has taken them/the artist. Looking at the lyrics, for example, " All these kinds of places, Make it seem like it's been ages. Tomorrow some new building will scrape the sky. I love this country dearly" along with the rest of the song, the lyrics mention many places that have importance to the band/their family. Therefore the long shots are used as it is a fleeting memory that is being spoken about rather than a specific detail (in some places it is however more detailed than others) and in terms of the audience, the long shots make it easier for them to relate as the video soon becomes about no one particular so an individual audience member is able to see some for of connection to their life in the video. The song was written and produced by Michael Angelakos, he says that each verse is based upon a certain member of his family at one point in their lives, thus giving light to the reminiscent feeling had when watching the video.
This song has also been used in the 2012 video game 'Forza Horizon' and was featured in the 2013 film 'Carrie'. 'Forza Horizon' was a Racing game published by Microsoft Studios and 'Carrie' was a horror film directed by 'Kimberly Pierce', this range of platforms that the song was released on automatically increased the audience and the availability of the song, the video for 'Take a Walk' was released before the song was featured on the game and in the film. Many comments on the video include people talking about how they either tried to find the song after hearing it on 'Forza Horizon' or commenting on how they remembered the game after hearing the song two years after both were released. From selling royalties out to other platforms and companies, there has been a boost in the amount of people who have viewed the video, thus there has been an expansion in the potential audience of who may buy the song. Although that is technically not the video doing the soul selling of the song, there has still been an expansion on revenue due to the existence of the video and the ease of finding the video compared to trawling through a game radio station or searching through a film in order to get the name of the song.
The camera shots used are also very similar with it being held in a long shot for the majority of the video apart from at the begging and the bike crash scene. The usage of the long shot enables the audience to get a wider picture of the places that the camera is 'taking' them, it almost acts as a nostalgic trip back through all the places life has taken them/the artist. Looking at the lyrics, for example, " All these kinds of places, Make it seem like it's been ages. Tomorrow some new building will scrape the sky. I love this country dearly" along with the rest of the song, the lyrics mention many places that have importance to the band/their family. Therefore the long shots are used as it is a fleeting memory that is being spoken about rather than a specific detail (in some places it is however more detailed than others) and in terms of the audience, the long shots make it easier for them to relate as the video soon becomes about no one particular so an individual audience member is able to see some for of connection to their life in the video. The song was written and produced by Michael Angelakos, he says that each verse is based upon a certain member of his family at one point in their lives, thus giving light to the reminiscent feeling had when watching the video.
This song has also been used in the 2012 video game 'Forza Horizon' and was featured in the 2013 film 'Carrie'. 'Forza Horizon' was a Racing game published by Microsoft Studios and 'Carrie' was a horror film directed by 'Kimberly Pierce', this range of platforms that the song was released on automatically increased the audience and the availability of the song, the video for 'Take a Walk' was released before the song was featured on the game and in the film. Many comments on the video include people talking about how they either tried to find the song after hearing it on 'Forza Horizon' or commenting on how they remembered the game after hearing the song two years after both were released. From selling royalties out to other platforms and companies, there has been a boost in the amount of people who have viewed the video, thus there has been an expansion in the potential audience of who may buy the song. Although that is technically not the video doing the soul selling of the song, there has still been an expansion on revenue due to the existence of the video and the ease of finding the video compared to trawling through a game radio station or searching through a film in order to get the name of the song.