First ten (15) frames analysis of Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd

First ten frames analysis of Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd

	Long duration shot, to establish narrative as the music video comes from a series of music videos that make up a movie about Pink Floyd’s childhood/life. Brick in the wall refers to the numerous events that happened in his life to make him into the man he is today. Flash back to teacher telling him off and making fun of him as a child All shots of the teacher are taken as low angle shots – inferior/child’s view  M-E-S: in an old classroom with teacher surrounded by children. Don’t follow 180o rule deliberately to separate the child from the teacher
	Child upset and targeted by the teacher Slightly low angle to show that the child isn’t inferior/ the teacher is treating him badly. M-E-S: smart child, young-looking to look vulnerable. The teacher then hits him and you sympathise because you can see the shock on his face due to the use of a close-up
	Shot duration: long to show the teachers discomfort eating the food Eating, chewing gristle. Forced to eat the meal by his wife after he takes it out of his mouth (you question what he’s eating) M-E-S: dark lighting as he eats dinner with his wife, almost sinister (foreshadowing something bad later)as their shadows are cast on the wall, but you wonder why they are eating in the dark.
	Shot duration: very short, as it acts as a short flash back Teacher punishing/caning child taking anger out on child/ abusing child M-E-S: mid shot to keep the teacher’s body in shot but close enough to work out that he’s hitting a child
	Shot duration: long to establish whats happening as all the children walk into the machine Children in a queue, walking into a machine that is seen to take away rheir real faces nd replace them with sad faces The children have different uniforms but yo cannot distinguish who is who with the masks. M-E-S: dark, unhygienic like an abandoned factory. Children walking in a line into an unknown machine
	Shot duration: quick to show all the steps in the process  Machine seated them all at desks, they are forced to learn M-E-S: on conveyor belt, brought out of the machine which takes their faces away.
	Shot duration: quick to show the queue of children all following eachother Boys and girls in separate queues They’re all being brainwashed to follow what the teacher says. M-E-S: all different looking boys, with all different uniform, then they are stripped of their personality by being given masks.
	They are all faceless and upset. They’ve been brainwashed, to behave how the teachers wish them to  M-E-S: bright back lighting to create the effect thet although the rest of the factory appears old, dirty and abandoned, its fully working, but for a sinister purpose.
	Shot duration: long, zoom-out to show the size of the walls that trap the children in They are all stuck in a maze-like building. There’s no escape, hey are held against their will. M-E-S: high wals, that trap the children so they can’t escape their fate
	Shot duration: medium length, gives time to zoom in on the teacher centre frame to show that the teacher has a significant role The only person who has free will is the teacher who is forcing them to abide by his own rules. Pink Floyd is protesting against his teachers because they punished him and bullied him. He’s taking the opportunity to criticise them for making his childhood so miserable. M-E-S: surrounded by metal fence, so looks like the children are walking laps around a prison-like area.
	Shot duration: J cut shot allows the audio to come in but not stop the shot so the shot doesn’t have to be long, it just shows the audience where the voice is coming from Shows teacher shouting and screaming, telling off children. Close-up, slightly low angle to show the teacher’s red face and anger M-E-S: inside the factory (brick wall), wearing a mortar board hat, to show that he’s superior.
	Shot duration: long, to allow the children to lip sync the lyrics “we don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control” Children look like they’re stuck together in a massive room, like mass production of animals for food. Like chickens in warehouses. M-E-S: edited background to look endless.
	Shot duration: medium to allow the children to lip sync the lyrics Performative element of children shouting “we don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control” M-E-S: children in smart uniform and straw boater hats and a top hat to look coordinated so that the audience focuses on the lyrics that they are lip syncing.
	Shot duration: this shot takes place when the children shout leave those kids alone, this is contradicted by the shot of them falling into the machine which shows that they are being controlled. Children falling into the mincer on a conveyor belt M-E-S: back lighting to create silhouettes of the children as they fall into the machine to die.
	Shot duration: long, to pan to the end of mincer and zoom in to allow the audience to understand what’s coming out of the mincer and to make them uncomfortable Close-up to emphasise the importance to the audience to realise that the mince had significance earlier. Mincing machine, revealed. Takes you back to the teacher eating with his wife. They were supposedly seen eating the minced meat of children that fell into the mincer M-E-S: massive industrial mincer, for the mass production of food that the teachers make from the children.