City of Ocala - Music Video Analysis

City of Ocala

Timelapse

Film grain

Narrative - Showing the hometown of the band and the places they played together and progressed
Using visible writing to show express small details outside of the lyrics

Linking with the lyrics in the video showing where they came from

Deep focus

Slow cuts

The music video for City of Ocala, from A Day To Remember’s 2013 album Common Courtesy was released on March 9th 2015 and directed by Drew Russ. The entire video is edited into a timelapse, showing sped up videos of the band members holding up signs explaining the significance of the places to how they developed as a band, showing where they lived, practiced and recorded their music. I believe this takes the form of a narrative throughout the video, as part of Lynch’s theory, with no sign of performance or concept in the video. The video for City of Ocala is all linked to the lyrics ‘This is where I came from’ showing the town where the band met and grew to the heights they are at today, and multiple shots of the lead singer’s face, although not performing, all linking with Goodwin’s theory. The video is edited adding in film grain as well as being sped up into a timelapse for the duration of the video, although there are multiple timelapses, not a single shot. The pace of editing is fairly slow, allowing for more of the time lapse to be seen. Mainly long shots are used to show the places the band go to, allowing more of the backgrounds to be shown. Because of this, the main portion of the video is shot in deep focus, allowing the foreground of the performers holding up signs, and the backgrounds of the places all to be in focus within the shots.

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