"About You" [directed by VASH] from J.VASH on Vimeo.
The music is mostly instrumental, with a few vocal samples, and the images are having a conversation with the music. The scene is of a group of women smoking marijuana, and the slow tempo of the instrumental takes you inside the assumed slow world of being stoned. The entire video is in slow motion, which meshes with the calming melody of the instrumental. The image colors are a variation of blues, greens and dark colors contrasted with the bright natural light from the sun, tying into the calm feel of the video. The shot length are determined by each clap in the beat, sometimes the editor skips a clap, which makes the changes in images suspenseful at certain points. The beat erupts at the 3:02 mark, and the theme changes with a shot of a wolf mask. Every aspect of the images are being controlled by the music, from the vocal sample commanding the movement to the marijuana smoke, to the flashing color being prompted by the blaring instrument (not sure which instrument) that’s introduced after the 3:02 mark. The images do have a narrative sequence. The storyline of a group of young ladies arriving at a home, smoking marijuana and then transforming into wolves is a story line that dictates the order of the shots. Also, the video cuts to each of the young ladies in the wolf mask similar to how cinema hints at marijuana cyphers. The video cuts to each of them hinting at the order each of them got high. A lot of the images are obvious, and it seems to be by design. The editor is painting a picture of the environment and activities of the young ladies, and the abruptness of the cuts add a nice contrast to the seamless shots that come later in the smoking scene.