Fall Out Boy: I Don’t Care (Shot count)

In this music video there are 185 shots approx.

There are plenty of MEAT shots in this video and the MEAT shots of this music video focus on the whole band rather than just the singer as it follows them around showing them doing annoying things around town and also showing them performing the song on a stage in front of a crowd. This video is unusual to other music videos as most videos tend to focus on one band member for the most parts and have bits and spots of the other members some where in the video, but Fall Out Boys I Don’t Care video gives each band member the same amount of screen time throughout the video.

With the song going at a relatively fast pace the shots move quickly and is edited seamlessly between one shot to the other. The pace of the editing and shots match the song perfectly as they fit with the tempo of the song switching between shots as quick as the beat is in the song.

There are many different types of shots used throughout the video, example of some of the shots used are tilts, pans, close ups and medium shots. All the shots are used to keep up with the tempo of the song and they do keep up well with the tempo as there are many of them shown and they switch from one type of shot to the next quickly so as to match the tempo. The shots also link well together showing the mix of the narrative that links with the words of the song and the performance of the band singing the song.

We can see clearly that the video is an illustration as it puts the point and meaning of the song across so well. The point of the video is to show that the band and also the people watching the video shouldn’t care what anyone thinks about them as the lyrics point out “I don’t care what you think as long as it is about me”. The video is very comedic as it shows the band performing there antics around LA much to the annoyance of the residents but it perfectly demonstrates the meaning behind the lyrics as the are doing anything they can to annoy anyone and not caring what they think of the in the process.