Cyanide live performance

This is a video of a live performance of the band playing the song Cyanide. In terms of costume, the male band members appear to wear matching dark, slim-fit suits, while the female singer is seen wearing a red dress. The suits and dress have connotations of sophistication, while the contrast in colours conveys the males as quite formal and clinical, as they're typically associated with the dark grey they wear, while the female is presented as more vibrant and passionate. This makes her stand out from the rest of the band and suggests that she has particular significance within the song. As the video is all one long shot of the band performing on stage, editing and transitions are not relevant in this context. As a result, even though the pace and tempo of the song is quite fast, the lack of cuts make the video contrastingly slow paced, creating inconsistency. We will improve on this by using a wide variety of different shots, and making sure that the shots lengths are a lot shorter to give our music video more replay value.

With regards to lighting, they use red and green as consistent still lights on the back of the stage, which are apparent for a majority of the song. This suggests that the themes they connote, such as love and envy, are key factors in the song. As it progresses, they also use white lights which move, spin and project shapes onto the walls, to create more visual variety. The lights also flicker on and off, in time with the beat of the song, relating to the atmosphere of a club and therefore connoting quite a rebellious nature.


- Ryan Chapman and Peter Godwin -