MS: Technical Analysis

Green Day released a song in 2001 called "Macy's Day Parade" off their 1999 hit album, "Warning". The music video is interesting in it's use of filming, as well as colour and tonality.

The entire video is shot in black and white by a run down industrial building, and an old factory. However the most interesting and individual part of the whole music video is that the whole video was shot continiously, with no cuts, or any other form of editing. This was achieved by having a camera man using a handicam and walking ahead of the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, through the entirety of the video. The video features Billie Joe singing the song, with a small 20 second section whereby he picks up an acoustic guitar and plays with the band, however the video features no related footage or content that links with the lyrics making the video very disjunctive.

Another note to consider is the fact that the handi-can performs a range of techniques altogether, including such shots as close-ups, panning shots, high and low angles and a few mid shots. Most of the video is shot as a following pan, however it is Billie Joe that is following the camera as opposed to the vice-versa technique of a camera following behind the subject.

Shot Number	Camera Technique	Duration	Purpose/Effect
1.	Zoom In	0:00 – 0:19	To view the subject (Billie Joe) getting out of the car.
2.	Pan Right & Zoom Out	0:23 – 0:40	This is to establish the scene. To set the viewer up for the rest of the video.
3.	Pans Left and Crabs Right	0:49 – 1:00	This changes the perception of the main character and changes the view of him walking from Right to Left.
4.	Following Pan Left, then Backwards	1:02 – 1:22	This helps the subject to become the centre of the camera’s view.
5.	Mid-Shot	1:23 – 1:27	To show the size of the subject.
6.	Low Angle	1:39 – 1:46	Allows the viewer to watch him go downstairs.
7.	Long Shot	2:14 – 2:29	To Emphasise Billie Joe walking over water and picking up a guitar.
8.	Zoom ins, and outs	2:31 – 2:45	The camera comes off Billie Joe to show the other band members playing.
9.	Extreme Long-Shot	2:49 – 2:56	Shows a transition between Performance and Individual parts of the video.
10.	High Angle	3:00 – 3:16	Walking up stairs.
11.	Long Shot	3:22 – 3:25	To show that Billie Joe is thinking about where to go next.
12.	Long à Extreme Long Shot / Following Pan	3:26 – 3:43	This concludes the video as Billie Joe walking towards the camera, then is left out of the shot, to be driven away by a car.