music video analysis

OF MONSTERS AND MEN - LITTLE TALKS

Of monsters and men are known for strange concepts in their music videos. This music video got audiences wondering why they used the concept and narrative. The music video is made by using two dimensional puppets for the scene. This music video is clever as it features the band made into puppets. The video uses eccentric and creative colours however the music video is incidental to the music that the audience hears. This music video is very good to attract a wide range of audiences as the peculiar video could make the audience intrigued and buy the music. The music captivates the audience with the creative concept ( puppet show.) The music video is well edited to make the special effects and concept in the video.

BASTILLE-POMPEII

This narrative is about the artist (Bastille) escaping from society as everyone has been infected into zombie like people. The people have  black matt eyes which was made using special affects. Bastille is trying to find some one who is not infected however everyone he goes to has already been turned into a zombie. There is synergy between the song and the music video as he is talking about he is isolated and alone. He sings about this as in the narrative he is on his own to escape the zombies. At 2.44 his car breaks down when getting out of the city so he has to escape on foot to save himself. This video contains digetic sound as if he is singing to the camera in some scenes however in others he is just acting while the song is playing.

Kiesza-Hideaway

This video is of the artist dancing in the middle of an abandoned street with backup dancers dancing along.  Kiesza is singing in the video while dancing meaning that the music video has digetic sound. The whole video is taken in one shot, this is good for performance videos because the audience will see the performance when it is actually happening. The fact the video is in one take means that the artist had to perform the dance in one take. The camera follows her as she travels through the street and then eventually gets into a taxi at the end, driving off.

Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know?

This video is made using special effects of a sound waves that move to the sound of the band singing/ illustrates the song. Using special effects, the sound waves are turned into art of the people the song is singing about. This music video has good visual effects as we do not usually see sound waves turned into pictures. The video also uses many different colours to make the video appeal to a variety of audiences. They do this by making the video look like club lighting. At 1.35 in the video the special effects of the art made by the sound wave line starts to appear this follows by eccentric colours made by the line.

ALT J- Breezeblocks

This video has good camera work because the whole video is replayed to look like something that is really not happening such as (2.38) people could think the man is trying to kill the woman with the knife however he is actually trying to save himself and his wife/woman in the closet. The camera editing makes the audience think of why the video is like that as without the camera editing the video would not be as intriguing to watch. The video ad camera editing makes us think that the man is beating the woman however the video subverts from the stereotype meaning the woman is trying to beat the man.

Imagine Dragons-On Top Of The World

This video is a good example of mise-en-scene because the props used in the video describes the narrative such as the old television and people watching a rocket goes to space suggests that the video is about the first time man went on to the moon. We can also infer that from the space suits the artists put on. The fact they are in the video suggests they want audiences to know who they are, they do this by having 4 scenes where it shows each member of the band standing still. The setting of the video is in the 1960's as the television looks quite old and the fact there are old cars in the background also suggests that.

Imagine Dragons-Demons

In this video there is a lot of camera editing with slow motion then at the drop of the song (0.56) everything goes back to the normal speed. This setting is in a concert of Imagine Dragons. The video has an insight to some of the crowds lives and cuts to flashbacks of their problems. The camera films on the huge crowed then turns back to the band with violet lighting shining on them. This video has 168 shots meaning there had to be a lot of editing for each shot to add the slow motion and fades in the video. The fading in this music video helps create the atmosphere for the crowds flashbacks.

Bastille- Things We Lost In The Fire

This is a good example of mise-en-scene as the setting is in a baron desert with nothing around but 1 bullet on the floor. There are a big group of men that are walking through the desert with three dogs besides them. There is blood in a car at 3.33 then it goes to the artist (Bastille) staring at a gun, playing with it in his hands. The next shot is of bullets dropping on to the ground. In this scene the shot is edited using a green screen to just be black with smoke at the bottom. The are a group of people in long black dresses with a Vail covering their face foreshadowing a funeral that ties in with the blood in the car.

Tove Lo-Habits

This is a good example of camera work because through out the whole video the camera is in front of the artists face so you can see her very clearly and the background becomes blurry. Most of the shots are slowed down to fit in with the music and some of the shots are reversed. This camera editing makes the video look more professional and fits in with what the narrative is. All shots in this video are close-ups due to the camera being at her face throughout her night at the club. The fact that camera blurs out the background suggests the producer wants us to focus on the artists expressions and how she is feeling.

One Republic-Stop And Stare

This video has a good narrative about a man who lost control of a car and his girlfriend/wife and child dies in the crash. At the start of the video (0.12) he walks to a priest for a funeral of his girlfriend. Then the scene changes of him having flashbacks of what happened. The music video is appropriate to the song as the song is also about losing control of a car. This intrigues the because in the video the man who was in the car crash tries to kill himself however at the end of the video he stops drowning himself and decides to stop. The producer wants the audience to see that even in the worst times in a persons life committing suicide is not the answer.