Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Salyu - 2007 - Liberty



Directed by Ookita Masaki.

Reverse play? Yes, I like. But that's not all, nor is it the editing. The camera work and singer/actress performance are the highlights of this video, besides the overall nice art direction (the sets are ok, but kind of generic). The careless and bored way Salyu moves around is so contrasting with the power of the song that the end result is pretty much yin and yang, aka perfect. The camera moves with Salyu, but usually not very focused on her, more like she's part of the set or a strange creature: it gives her so much more importance because we want to observe her instead of the camera forcing us to do it. The ending part, with the spot lights background, is very generic and I don't really know where it came from, but I decided not to let it make me have a bad opinion about the video.

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