The Sunstreak, "Until I met you" music video review

The Sunstreak is a band that is starting to emerge from the underground and become more and more popular. They recently released their first music video to their song, "Until I met you," off of their album, "Once upon a lie."

The music video was directed by Josh Horowitz, I found the way he focused shots was interesting. He would often have shots that were focused on individual members of band, Many of the shots would focus on one individual member while the rest of the band would be slightly blurry. I found this to be unique and draw attention to each member at different parts of the video.

The camera shots are what keep the video from ever having a dull moment. Nearly all of the shots are moving, the camera usually usually pans across a shot to keep variety and show more objects in the setting. The video also never stays on one shot for too long, there is only one clip that exceeds three seconds at the end of the video. The constant changing of shots keep the video interesting.

The changing of shots work well with the music. When the music is faster, the shots end up changing more rapidly. During the slower parts, such as the beginning, the shots tend to go on longer than other parts. During the Chorus the shots end up changing faster.

The video does have it's weaker areas though. The video opens with a scene that seems out of place. It features the band's lead singer sitting in what appears to be a recording studio while singing the song. While he sings he looks at photographs of a girl, the photos fall to the ground as he goes through looking at them. The music video cuts back to this scene throughout the song. The dark lighting in the room really contrasts with the overall bright coloring of the rest of the video. The scene in the recording studio also seems to imply that the singer is sad about the girl that he is dropping the photographs of. This contrasts the rest of the video where instead of mourning over the girl he seems to be celebrating his relationship with her with no clear implication of him breaking up with her in the end. This series of clips seemed to contradict the basic story of the video.

I should also take note of the story's overall simplicity. The story is very basic, it seems to be about a guy who loves his girlfriend. It is a fairly unoriginal story that has been done time and time again. I feel the video could have gone into more depth about the relationship between the guy and the girl, perhaps showing more scenarios involving the two characters (it was mainly the two of them driving in a car taking pictures of each other, stopping once to go into a CD store).

Overall, the video is enjoyable and interesting. I give it a rating of 3.5/5. I praise it mainly for it's camerawork and directing but I dislike the method of storytelling. I see a lot of talent and potential in this video and look forward to see what else they will come up with.