Over christmas I was listening to a lot of new music and came across the video for Skream & Example's Shot Yourself In The Foot Again. It's a dubstep track and has a lot of bass to it. The video is about a bloke going out drinking with is mates on his birthday, seemingly oblivious to his girlfriend sitting at home with a pile of presents and dinner cooked for him.
After watching it a couple of times I suddenly was drawn to the way they had edited it. It's almost like the editor was trying to merge music video editing with stop motion animation. As with most music videos, the visuals follow the beat, cutting in time with the music. However, in parts of the video, the beat is quite fast and loud, and scenes are edited with jump cuts - the movements of the actors jump forward faster than real time, giving a jerky, urgent feel.
I think this style of editing works really well with the song and is a really interesting way of editing, as well as being quite experimental. I'm not sure it will help to shape my project, but it's a good example of a different approach to editing.
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