7. 9 Shot Grid

Beach House- Heart of Chambers

9 Key Moments from 'Heart of Chambers'



From Left to Right, Top to Bottom:

1. The music video regularly returns to this shot of the couple playing instruments. The parallel sound to the visuals alerts us that this is the band, playing the song. It gives the music video and the characters relevance, as we know that both the song and video are connected.

2. This shot is present towards the start of the video, when natural light has not been introduced yet, this pose with the trolley (although we do not know it is a trolley yet) seems almost spooky, as she is holding the stance of a zombie. This is all cleared up when the video breaks into the light in the next shot.

3. This shows the couples initiation to the light, before this the video had been shot in the darkness. This particular shot is significant as it shows the girl pushing the man in a trolley. We now know what the previous shot was about. It also injects a fun, lighthearted feel to the music video, giving us the first signs of its indie qualities.

4. These close ups of the girl spinning round allows the audience to gain a connection with the girl, as she is looking directly into the camera. This one scene is returned to frequently throughout the music video.

5. This picnic scene is one of the more random scenes, as it seems not to have a connection with the rest of the video, merely enhancing the lighthearted feel. The couple take photographs which become very relevant later on in the video.

6. The video has an ongoing theme of photography, which links the video together, as the boy takes photos of key moments with his polaroid camera. These then turn up on a turning music box wheel.

7. This wheel connects the key moments in photo form in the music video, it is a quirky idea that gives the video and song a very 'odd' feel, this is done deliberately.

8. The first sign of special editing is here, when the camera zooms to a close up of one of the photographs on the wheel, it first becomes a moving cartoon, until it becomes the film again, within the photograph, as though the photos are triggering clear memories of previous events we have seen in the video.

9. This is the finishing shot of the video, a music box. This is how the video begins, and how it ends, the camera zooms into this which acts as closure. It also is representitive of the music, whihc is the main object of the music video.