Last night I was watching some music videos for quite a long amount of time and it was an interesting exercise to, while watching, realise the facets of the videos that I felt could lend towards lingering.

Case in point was Blood Orange’s Charcoal Baby video, and Jewelry video, as well as A$AP Rocky’s Praise Da Lord video. In Charcoal Baby and Praise Da Lord, there is a use of split screen that is so creative and thematically fits in with something that could be really interesting

Here the split screen works in synergy with each other as both screens tell this story of two places colliding. In Praise Da Lord there is two distinct locations being documented, to ‘in a way’ highlight that they’re like for like, that the two locations are the same, by way of montage. In Charcoal Baby this is done and showing two settings, with a very juxtaposition by way of a contrasting colour grading to compliment both split screen situations too.

Thus, to extrapolate these ideas I think there is a lot of weight in adopting split screen shots in lingering that is a vast juxtaposition, as well as something completely advantageous of using split screen recording to linger on two different locations and link them geometrically, it really opens a treasure trove of ideas and I think it could really function well in a jigsaw puzzle manner.