Music Videos Watched in Class

Foo Fighters – The Pretender

-Performance Shots

-Shocking Imagery - red wall exploding / riot police

-Fast Cutting

-Syncronised Editing

-Extreme Key Lighting - bright and harsh

-Single Location - warehouse

-Block Colours - red/white/black - distinctive

-Connects to Live Performances

-Focus is on the Band

The Prodidgy – Firestarter

-Black and White
-Close Ups of the Artist
-Link between Music and Visuals
-Set in Tunnels
-No Key Lighting
-Unusual

The Chemical Brothers – The Salmon Dance

-Sense of Looking
-Use of Colours
-Unique
-Non-Conventional
-Cut to the Beat of the Music
-Focus in the Animation not the Band
-Curiosity - why is the boy watching the fish in the fish tank?

The Lonely Isalnd – I’m On A Boat

-Relationship between Music and Visuals - cut to the beat
-Performance Shots
-Introduction to the Storyline at the Begining with Speech
-Unrealistic - conventional
-Use of Explicit Language

Lady GaGa Ft. Beyonce – Telephone

-Intertextual References - Thelma and Louise
-Mini Movie - extended story/plot line
-Colourfull
-No Link between Lyrics and Visuals
-Dance shots - typical of a pop video
-Many Locations

Hold Your Horses – 70 Million

-Religious References - at the begining.
-Intertextual References to Paintings and other Media Forms
-Shots of the Artist
-Odd/ Shocking Imagery
-No Performance Scenes - not typical

Weezer – Pork and Beans

- Split screen editing
-Made up of Many Videos - different locations
-Intertextual References
-Comical
-No Link between Visuals and Lyrics

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

-Main Character is the Artist
-Intertextual References
-Timeless - no sense of time
-Use of Slow Motion and Super Imposition
-One Location - caravans
-Drama - created through close ups
-Link between Visuals and Lyrics