https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFRPXRhBYOI&list=PLFgquLnL59alxwdK5CdVrQLp2d0oZ-jgB&index=4

 

The genre video is definitely Rock and Roll, I can tell because the sequence shows a re-enactment of the film School of Rock and takes place entirely within a school classroom that has been filled with electric guitars, keyboards and amplifiers as if it were being prepared to be the venue for a rock concert as well as the teacher’s desk and the pupils’ desks and the drawers and cupboards containing all the classroom supplies and resources such as chalkboards and bookcases. The room is understandably a mess as the students’ backpacks and sheets of paper are strewn all over the floor.

 

The whole sequence is just over five minutes of an Actor named Alex Brightman as Dewey Finn and the rest of the juvenile cast singing You’re in the Band from School of Rock: The Musical on Broadway. The sequence begins largely as an establishing shot. If the viewer looks straight at the cast, he or she would see the characters mostly in Mid-Shot, Medium close-up and sometimes Close-Up and there is also the potential to see the cast in High-Angle and Low-Angle Shot and Two-Shot can also be a recurrent feature throughout this video. Notably, the song’s lyrics appear on the ceiling written in red and when the characters move to the left or right of the viewer’s line of vision, the viewer can use the 360 pan function to perform tracking shots and whip pans. It is advisable that the viewer tilts the camera to a low-angle shot as in the last half minute of the video, the Dewey Finn character jumps on top of what looks like a packing case on wheels causing his head to go out of shot when the camera is looking straight at him. Although it is still possible to Dewey’s head without tilting up, it is still advisable to view this part of the sequence in Low Angle Shot as he jumps off the packing case at the end of the sequence, once again, briefly causing his head to go out of shot and then at the end of the sequence, he lies on the floor so to see him, the viewer has to turn the camera to top shot.  

 

The interactive element is that the video works in an identical fashion to Google Earth in that the viewer can control whether the camera pans 360 degrees round the room or tilts up to the ceiling or tilts down to the floor. This function is only available if the viewer accesses the video through Google Chrome otherwise, the viewer would just see the classroom in its entirety albeit distorted to look several stills of 180 degree panning shots all linked together while witnessing the duration of the sequence in long shot and not able perform any of the interactive elements. This actually proves to be disadvantageous to this video as the interactive elements are very limited and so are the means of using them even if there is no limit as to how the viewer is able to access the video but the video also lacks a zoom function.