Solitude is Bliss – 9 Frame Analysis The video I have chose to do my nine-frame analysis for is ‘Solitude is Bliss’ by Tame Impala. The first interesting shot is a shot of the main character in the video being held back by some policemen. They are not letting him through, but his desperation to get through tells us that there is something on the other side that he wants. In the previous shot we can see that there is also a crowd of people gathered around and there is an ambulance on the set.

However, the next shot we see is a wide shot which shows the man finally breaking through, but none of the people who were there before are now there anymore. He is walking on his own on a road where we can see abandoned cars and fires in the background. This implies that isolations is what he was trying to reach when he was pushing through the crowds in the shots before.

The next shot shows lots of confetti and we see a close up of his face from which we can see he is happy and enjoying himself while he is on his own. But as this shot progresses we see a group of people walking into the shot and invade his alone time.

Here is a shot of him getting pushed by someone who is walking the other way. This shot conveys that all the people who are walking in the other direction do not want what he wants and he is different from other people. This shot goes along with the lyrics, “you will never come close to how I feel’.

After the group of people walking the other way pass by, he is back on his own again and he is dancing around conveying that he is happy again. In this shot we also see someone crawling the floor as if they are hurt and he kicks them over. This shows that he has a sense of power because he is in a place where he feels very comfortable on his own.

After this shot he continues to dance down the road and spots someone in the distance. The interesting shot that I have picked out here, is a Point of View shot of him using his hand like a gun. He shoots the person in the distance. This again displays his sense of power and the way he feels that he can do whatever he wants.

In this next shot we cannot really see the expression on his, but from the high angle shot looking down on the man laid down in a pile of old newspapers. We assume that he is tired as he has just battled his way through another oncoming crowd in the previous couple of shots. This is also displayed through the fact that we can see sweat marks on his shirt.

In this frame, we are looking up at the man from a low angle shot. There is anger in his face and his fist is clenched showing feelings of anger and aggression. The fire in the background of this shot also reinforces his emotions in this picture.

In this last frame, it is clear that the man is very upset and angry as he is being held back again, linking back to one of the shots from the beginning of the video. Also unlike other parts of the video where the man is happy, he doesn’t look like he is enjoying himself anymore.