Hard day of work? Bad week? Don’t worry you just have to wait till the evening.

In this video of Stromae we have a split screen of the entire story. At the beginning of the video he is sitting in his office trying to work. After a hard day, he apparently wants to visit his child, but as he arrives at his wife’s house he is told to leave. He proceeds to walk down the street, and as he does this a homeless man steals his coat. He then enters a pub. At first he does not appear to enjoy himself, but as he becomes more inebriated he begins to sing “Alors on danse”on a stage. After his performance he passes out, and he’s brought back by an unknown man from the pub directly to his office desk in the first scene, where the video started.

Through the split screen we can see a double filming where the screen is divided in two horizontal parts.

Until the arrival of digital technology in the early 1990s, a split screen was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto the same negative, called the composite. In filmmaking split screen is also a technique that allows one actor to appear twice in a scene (as though they were cloned or had traveled through time). The simplest technique is to lock down the camera and shoot the scene twice, with one “version” of the actor appearing on the left side, and the other on the right side. The seam between the two splits is intended to be invisible, making the duplication seem realistic.

The director Jerome Guiot made several videos for Stromae, check this out.