Showing posts with label Introduction to music videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Introduction to music videos. Show all posts
Monday, 19 September 2011
Tenacious D - Tribute Analysis.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ&ob=av2e |
Genre Characteristics
- Humour
- Known comedy star
- Not serious for comedy effect
- Performance shots - live like rock video
- Topless devil playing guitar
- Taken away by police but funny
- Rebellious
- Casual clothes, overweight and unsexy
- Parody - taking some conventions but not using all.
- Untypical for a rock song.
Lyrics and Visuals
- Narrative
- Illustrates
- 'look in to my eyes' points to eyes.
- 'look at eachother' - look at eachother
- Counting - counts using hands
Music and Visuals
- Fast beat, fast cuts
- Electric guitar and visual
- Music flash and visual flash
Close ups, shots and motifs
- Lots of close-ups.
Notion of looking
- Cutting the wire.
- We know whats going on in there.
- We are the camera.
Intertextual references
- Ben Stiller
- Dave Grohl
- Narrative of film
- 'Thriller'
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Jay - Z - 99 Problems. Music Video Analysis.
Jay-Z - 99 Problems
1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics
- Urban setting - Brooklyn, NY. Jay-Z's hood. He makes a point of of drawing our attention to this by revealing the name on his hoodie.
- Representations of a 'gangsta' lifestyle - cruising in cars, dog fights, loitering on the streets, getting pulled over by the police, basketball, guns, criminality/money.
- Street dancing/freestyle
- Scantily-clad 'sexy' women - cheap looking, gold bikinis.
- Jail scenes - all inmates are black - white guy in a suit, policeman is white, black people are jailbirds/on thr streets.
- Goes against conventions of representations of wealth - lacks fancy cars, clothes, bling, women etc.
- Women are only a minor element in the video - usually hip-hop videos would have more shots of sexy women.
- Shooting at the end - reflects images of gangsta cool.
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals
- 'From the hood' - Jay-Z pulls hood down.
- 'Radio' - image of video.
- 'Bitch' - image of women.
- 'Jay-Z' - points to himself.
- 'Fast forward' - moves his hands along to demonstrate.
- 'Paparazzi' - camera flash images of criminals identity shots.
- Overall, images illustrate the lyrics, sometimes very literally, sometimes in a more subtle way. Theme of song = all the problems Jay-Z has; video shows problems.
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals.
- Video is cut in time with the beat of the song.
- Music is hard-hitting, aggressive - sounding with and emphasis on the beat rather than melody - visuals are also harsh = looking and edits are fast-paced to emphasise this aggression.
4. Close ups, shots and developing a recurring motif.
- Lots of shots of Jay-Z - not all close-ups but there are some.
- Close-ups of other men as well - aggressive-looking.
- Shots of women are long shots/mid-shots - because they're not important.
- Less emphasis on Jay-Z on his own - he is an established artist and doesn't need as much exposure.
- Jay-Z has his own record label as well as being part of island/DefJam - quite independent, evidence of less control by the label in this video tham you might expect from a more mainstream/major label.
5. Notion of looking, voyeuristic of female body.
- Jay-Z hand over camera so it seems the audience is looking through his fingers.
- X-ray vision shot of money in boot - we can see through the boot.
- Scopophilic treatment of women is quite uncomfortable to watch - seems totally unnecessary.
- Early establishing shots are almost point-of-view, creating the impression that the audience is looking around the hood.
- Video of Jay-Z outside subway station.
6. Intertextual references.
- Possibly a video of him - referencing himself?
- Niche references.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etl9kkIGaHo |
1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics
- Urban setting - Brooklyn, NY. Jay-Z's hood. He makes a point of of drawing our attention to this by revealing the name on his hoodie.
- Representations of a 'gangsta' lifestyle - cruising in cars, dog fights, loitering on the streets, getting pulled over by the police, basketball, guns, criminality/money.
- Street dancing/freestyle
- Scantily-clad 'sexy' women - cheap looking, gold bikinis.
- Jail scenes - all inmates are black - white guy in a suit, policeman is white, black people are jailbirds/on thr streets.
- Goes against conventions of representations of wealth - lacks fancy cars, clothes, bling, women etc.
- Women are only a minor element in the video - usually hip-hop videos would have more shots of sexy women.
- Shooting at the end - reflects images of gangsta cool.
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals
- 'From the hood' - Jay-Z pulls hood down.
- 'Radio' - image of video.
- 'Bitch' - image of women.
- 'Jay-Z' - points to himself.
- 'Fast forward' - moves his hands along to demonstrate.
- 'Paparazzi' - camera flash images of criminals identity shots.
- Overall, images illustrate the lyrics, sometimes very literally, sometimes in a more subtle way. Theme of song = all the problems Jay-Z has; video shows problems.
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals.
- Video is cut in time with the beat of the song.
- Music is hard-hitting, aggressive - sounding with and emphasis on the beat rather than melody - visuals are also harsh = looking and edits are fast-paced to emphasise this aggression.
4. Close ups, shots and developing a recurring motif.
- Lots of shots of Jay-Z - not all close-ups but there are some.
- Close-ups of other men as well - aggressive-looking.
- Shots of women are long shots/mid-shots - because they're not important.
- Less emphasis on Jay-Z on his own - he is an established artist and doesn't need as much exposure.
- Jay-Z has his own record label as well as being part of island/DefJam - quite independent, evidence of less control by the label in this video tham you might expect from a more mainstream/major label.
5. Notion of looking, voyeuristic of female body.
- Jay-Z hand over camera so it seems the audience is looking through his fingers.
- X-ray vision shot of money in boot - we can see through the boot.
- Scopophilic treatment of women is quite uncomfortable to watch - seems totally unnecessary.
- Early establishing shots are almost point-of-view, creating the impression that the audience is looking around the hood.
- Video of Jay-Z outside subway station.
6. Intertextual references.
- Possibly a video of him - referencing himself?
- Niche references.
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Media A2
Music Video
- Technical codes and conventions of the music video.
- Cinema created to bring songs/music to life.
- 1920's music video - Bessie Smith. There are limited cuts.
- 1965 - Bob Dylan
- 1970's - TV shows promote videos.
- 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody - There are advanced visual effects for the time it was made.
- Dido - editing.
- One take, no cuts - Wiley ft. Daniel Merriwether - Cash in my pocket.
Technical Codes
- Camerawork
- Camera movement
- Close-ups tend to predominte, as in most TV due to the size of the screen.
Andrew Goodwin writing in 'Dancing in the Distraction Factory' (Routledge 1992)
Music Video Analysis
1- Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics.
2- There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals.
3- There is a relationship between music and visuals.
Amplifies, illustrates, contradicts.
4- Demands of record label will include need for lots of close-ups. Artist may develop a motif that may recur through their other videos.
5- Frequent reference to the notion of looking. (screens within screens, telescopes)
Voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6- There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos) intertextuality.
For example - Orange adverts (Snoop Dogg)
The Simpsons/Family Guy - political references.
Newspapers and soap stories. Eastenders' 'Who shot Phil' and 'Romeo and Juliet' storyline.
Follow the style - stylistically - imitating the style of a film, T.V genre, video game, cartoon etc.
For example, Michael Jackson 'Thriller' - horror film.
Madonna 'Die Another Day' - James Bond film.
Intertextual references can add another dimension of meaning to a text, as well as fulfilling an important role for audiences. They can work on different levels so that they will be understood by some, but not necessarily all, of the audience. Thos who do 'get' the reference feel privileged and in on a secret.
Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone
- Media tabloids said Lady Gaga was rumoured to be a 'man'.
- Advertising virgin phones, diet coke, dating site 'plenty of fish'
- The video is presented like a film.
- Lyrics and visuals contradict each other.
- Violence/danger - yellow tape.
- Tarantino style, Pulp Fiction.
- Song 'vibrates', visual 'vibrates'.
- Technical codes and conventions of the music video.
- Cinema created to bring songs/music to life.
- 1920's music video - Bessie Smith. There are limited cuts.
- 1965 - Bob Dylan
- 1970's - TV shows promote videos.
- 1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody - There are advanced visual effects for the time it was made.
- Dido - editing.
- One take, no cuts - Wiley ft. Daniel Merriwether - Cash in my pocket.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6bNKS8QAjM&ob=av2e |
Technical Codes
- Camerawork
- Camera movement
- Close-ups tend to predominte, as in most TV due to the size of the screen.
Andrew Goodwin writing in 'Dancing in the Distraction Factory' (Routledge 1992)
Music Video Analysis
1- Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics.
2- There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals.
3- There is a relationship between music and visuals.
Amplifies, illustrates, contradicts.
4- Demands of record label will include need for lots of close-ups. Artist may develop a motif that may recur through their other videos.
5- Frequent reference to the notion of looking. (screens within screens, telescopes)
Voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6- There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos) intertextuality.
For example - Orange adverts (Snoop Dogg)
The Simpsons/Family Guy - political references.
Newspapers and soap stories. Eastenders' 'Who shot Phil' and 'Romeo and Juliet' storyline.
Follow the style - stylistically - imitating the style of a film, T.V genre, video game, cartoon etc.
For example, Michael Jackson 'Thriller' - horror film.
 |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA&ob=av2n |
Madonna 'Die Another Day' - James Bond film.
Intertextual references can add another dimension of meaning to a text, as well as fulfilling an important role for audiences. They can work on different levels so that they will be understood by some, but not necessarily all, of the audience. Thos who do 'get' the reference feel privileged and in on a secret.
Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone
- Media tabloids said Lady Gaga was rumoured to be a 'man'.
- Advertising virgin phones, diet coke, dating site 'plenty of fish'
- The video is presented like a film.
- Lyrics and visuals contradict each other.
- Violence/danger - yellow tape.
- Tarantino style, Pulp Fiction.
- Song 'vibrates', visual 'vibrates'.
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U&ob=av2e |
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
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