Favorited music video (The Paper Kites-Featherstone)

The Paper Kites have recently become one of my favourite bands with their folk/indie genre. The music video for their beautiful song 'featherstone' is one of my preferred ones, highlighting their chosen genre by setting the song in a woodland area which also connects to their album title 'woodland'. The costumes in this video suits the title of the song, portraying a slightly tribal, wild look to the children by for example, dressing them in feathers and animal fur; this allows them to blend in with the woodland set. The shots and camera use, describe the movement of the slow paced song, including close ups to show detail of each child and the similar object they are all picking up, while flicking back to a long shots of the group increasing as more join. Medium shots vary on angles to help describe the habitats these children are sleeping in, creating them to be visualised as woodland animals relating to the woodland creature music being played. Towards the end of the music video, we see these children acting like wild animals to each other, however bearing in mind they are children the use of pillows, feathers and glitter are portrayed as their weapons allowing this music video to connect to the delicate song, making it to be magical and fun. x I