Editing techniques and symbolism

The video starts off with a stop motion animation of an eagle which was taken from a 2003 film by David Russo titled 'Pan With Us'


Symbolism of the eagle
The eagle has many connotations and different cultural meanings. As a Christian symbol, the eagle represents salvation, redemption and resurrection. Within the video, I believe it represents freedom, as it can fly around freely. However, within the video it is also manipulated by different people and is moulded differently with people's hands. It also changes, for example, it transforms into a drawing on the wall and then back into a model. This can mean that the eagle isn't really free and that people are changing it to what they want it to be so there is no real freedom.


The time lapse footage was by Mark Eiffert.

It shows the sky and clouds in landscapes and time passing by, night turning into day. The reason Chel White used these shots were to shows how time passes but there is still not much change in the world, in a sense that it will always be corrupt.



A technique called Smallgantics was also used a lot within Ariel shots of landscapes, buildings and protesters. Smallgantics is a digital image process that accurately simulates miniature depth of field (DOF) on full-scale filmed subjects via a "hand-made" digital application. Artificial depth planes, up to 8 layers, are generated by the artist, which distort with each frame of a sequence, giving the artist complete control of a simulated miniature DOF scenario. It makes every scene and landscape look small as if they are models and we are looking at them from above. This may symbolise God looking down on us and how small everything is for Him. It could show that He watches over everything such as the protests and sees the bad things in the world happening.




A slow-motion technique is also used towards the end of the video underwater. This part is my favourite of the whole video as it looks really surreal. There are objects thrown in to the water, a dog swimming, and the artist, Thom Yorke, himself jumping in the water. I like this part as it matches the music when it slows down and the colours used are cyan which gives more of an underwater feel but also makes Thom Yorke look pale and cold.