Backstage Pass

As more and more people watch music videos on their iPods and their small computer screens instead of on TVs, directors have been drifting to the style of using more closeups and fewer wide shots. For the new James Blunt video "Same Mistake," the great director Jonas Akerlund uses an extreme closeup on Blunt as the focus for the entire video.

In this case, he's using it to offer an interesting point-of-view to tell his story. In the future, though, look for hackier directors to copy this idea to make closeup-loving artist managers and record labels happy, using this video as the template.

Soon, we'll all be howling, "Ah-oooo-ooo-oo-oo-ooh."