'Spit It Out' - Slipknot Video Analysis

• Tracking Shot behind the drummer of his body to start with
• Camera cuts to torso and face of drummer riding tricycle to white door with two little girls holding hands in the frame. The camera cuts to medium-long shot of the door frame and the little girls standing in it.
• Camera uses match-on-action to show little girls change into two other band members with a quick white fade out then back in lasting about and music starts (editing on the beat). They are dressed the same as the girls and standing the same as them, perhaps showing another side of the girls?
• Cuts to the vocalist in a close up shot of him singing as the lyrics start to come in - Lip Syncing
• Cuts to each band member using medium-close ups or close-ups of them playing their instruments and headbanging in time with the music. The speed of cuts is in time with the drum beat, which relates to the genre of heavy metal (fast paced and energetic)
• Cuts to crowd to show reaction and liveliness of band
• Fast paced camera shots show the energy produced by the band and support the genre of music the video is for. If the music was any slower there would be too much contrast between the pacing of the camera shots and the speed of music and it would not be aesthetically pleasing to a viewer.
• As the song ends and the music cuts out we have diagetic music and it cuts back to the drummer riding the tricycle from the beginning shots to keep the continuity going (As this is also the establishing shot of the video) because the tricycle was the first focus and it is the last in the videos.