[DF] Technical Analysis (2)

Tegan and Sara - 'Hell' (Travis, 2009)


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Shot Type	Mise-en-scène	Duration
N/A	Black screen.	0:00 – 0:01
Long shot	Static shot showing an empty bedroom with blue bed and furnishings.	0:01 – 0:02
Long shot	Static shot showing an empty bedroom with orange bed and furnishings – the same bedroom as the blue one but mirrored.	0:02 – 0:03
Medium shot	One twin (the singers are twins) with a black and white striped shirt begins to rise into the shot.	0:03 – 0:04
Medium Shot	Singer continues to rise as before but the room changes from the orange one to the blue. Singer walks into the room and the camera dips.	0:05 – 0:10
Long shot	Same shot, but in the orange room with the orange twin who begins opening a suitcase lying on the bed.	0:10 – 0:13
Close-up High angle	Switches back to the blue room, continuing the shot otherwise – blue twin is opening the suitcase.	0:13 – 0:15
Close-up High angle	Switches back to the orange room, with the orange twin taking money out of the suitcase.	0:15 – 0:16
Close-up High angle	Same as previous shot but with the blue twin.	0:16 – 0:18
Long shot	The shot pans from the orange twin unpacking in the orange room, through the wall to the blue room, where the blue twin is sitting on the bed with her head replacing a portraits face. She begins to lip sync. Camera then pans back to the orange room and the orange twin is doing the same.	0:18 – 0:33
Close-up	The blue twin’s face in the portrait as she lip syncs.	0:33 – 0:36
Long shot	Blue twin sitting on the corner of the bed lip syncing through the portrait. At 0:37 there is a quick (less than half a second) flash showing the orange twin doing the same.	0:36 – 0:41
Medium shot	Blue twin lip syncing with no portrait. At 0:42 there is another quick flash of the orange twin doing the same.	0:41 – 0:46
Long shot	The blue twin looks up from packing and looks across the room.	0:46 – 0:48
Long shot	Shot showing a mirror in the blue room. In the reflection of the mirror (but not the room) stands an upright blue dress.	0:48 – 0:49
Medium shot	An old-fashioned TV is shown with a black and white video of hands folding a fortune teller.	0:49 – 0:50
Close-up	The orange twin’s hands as she folds a fortune teller.	0:50 – 0:51
Medium shot	The orange twin’s face as she looks over at the TV.	0:51 – 0:53
Medium shot	The TV again showing a later stage of folding the fortune teller.	0:53 – 0:54
Close-up	The orange twin’s hands folding again, but there are three quick cuts to speed up the process.	0:54 – 0:56
Long shot	Orange twin sitting on the sofa.	0:56 – 0:58
Long shot	Blue twin looking into the mirror at the upright blue dress staring back in the reflection. She lifts her hands and the figure mirrors her movement. She lip syncs as she does this.	0:58 – 1:02
Medium shot	Blue twin reaches out her other arm and bows her head. Does not show the mirror.	1:02 – 1:05
Medium shot	Shot of the figure in the mirror copying her.	1:05 – 1:06
Long shot	Shot of both of them with heads bowed.	1:06 – 1:07
Medium shot	Blue twin’s face as she looks up lip syncing.	1:07 – 1:10
Long shot	Twin walks away from the mirror as the figure in the reflection stays.	1:10 – 1:13
Medium shot	Shot showing the TV – on it the fortune teller is being played with.	1:13 – 1:14
Medium shot	Orange twin as she plays with the fortune tellers. Her non-verbal language is indifferent but content.	1:14 – 1:16
Close-up	The blue twin grabs a kaleidoscope out of her suitcase.	1:16 – 1:18
Long shot	The blue twin looks through the kaleidoscope.	1:18 – 1:19
Long shot	Orange twin as she plays with the fortune teller.	1:19 – 1:20
Close-up	Orange twin’s hands with the fortune teller.	1:20 – 1:22
Long shot	Blue twin with her head in a different portrait as she lip syncs.	1:22 – 1:25
Long shot	Orange twin with her head in a different portrait lip syncing while playing with fortune teller.	1:25 – 1:28
Long shot	Blue twin in portrait lip syncing again.	1:28 – 1:30