Group Analysis of Music Videos

Matt Bostock:

Wrong Direction - Passenger

British Folk/Rock band.

Warm-up for Jools Holland and Ed Sheeran

'Let Her Go' reached number 2 in the Uk charts.

Split up in 2009 and now the lead singer has hit out as a solo artist using the same name 'Passenger'.


Camerawork:
Song did not start straight away.
Tracking shot used to show scene change
Large variety of shots (Mid shot, close-up, focus changes, tracking shots and long shots)

Editing:
Use of animation (fishes in the bowl)
Use of straight cuts and is not too chaotic in it's editing
Representation of simplicity with fade to black at the end.

Mise en scene:
Links to lyrcis in places
Shows stage crew and offstage warehouse (at ease, relaxing video)
Use of the paddling pool and trumpet to indicate instrument playing in song and relaxed atmosphere.

Good usage of link to the title with man running in the wrong direction during the video!

Sound:
Acoustic song
Relaxed and happy

Narrative:
About a man getting lost and use of green screens to show time passing.
Mixture of narrative and live perfomance.

Veronika, Laura and Shannon:

This is War - 30 Seconds to Mars:

American rock band formed in 1998.

Narrative:
About fighting for what you believe in.
Tells the story of a soldier fighting for something he doesn't believe in but continuing to fight anyway.

Camerawork:
The start of the video shows the main lyric in the video, introducing the music and setting the scene in a simplistic way.

Mise en scene:
A lot of shots used to indciate shots of the Earth in satellite view and to indciate imminent danger or evil.
Not an extremely colourful video due to it's depressing concept but the idea of fighting war is a bleak idea so the colours symbolise this.

Sound:
Sound cuts in and out in order to maintain the narrative and explain to the audience what is going on.
Extra sounds are thrown in like talking, driving, people screaming etc... to add to the story and maintain audience interest.

Beth and Hayden:

Hey Ya - Outkast:

Formed in 1992 by 2 people.
One artist is more funky and rap whereas the other one is hip-hop and electronic but they came together to create this hip-hop/pop song.

Narrative:
The story shows a live perfromace by 'The Love Below' which mimicks the Beatles live performace on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964.

All characters are played by the same person (Andre 3000)

Two shots showing the Beatles influence using the old fashioned televisions as a border for what is happening.

Stereotypical fans going mental, showing the conventional modern shot of people who love the band, in order to promote the band.

Short narrative at the beginning to build the story. This short narrative links to the short narrative in another song called 'I Like the Way You Move'.

Added a very upbeat song to this song to make it catchy and make everybody want to watch it and listen to the music.