Codes (which is the meaning)..
- yellow flowers - showing warmth, romance, summer, young love
- body language - this shows a lot, how they are very close - shown through close ups giving a real intensity to the couple and their young love
- bright coloured background - happiness
- mise-en-scene - is very realistic and shows a sense of normality - there is a garden and washing hanging around in the background
- completely different to when the band is shown - which is stylised and red and black
- hand on face - is showing the worry and stress
- different REALITIES
- ideology and anti - war
Conventions (something you would expect to see within the genre)..
- narrative - begins with opening dialogue
- intimate camera work - there are a series of close ups
- sound bridge - to show the band playing
- extreme close up - on the eye
- camera in and out of focus - this is blurring the scene which is often done in music videos
- non diegetic sound track over the people
- band - you see them as though they are performing live
- jux to position - the army is completely different
- cinematic - looks a lot like a film
Eminem ft. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie
Codes..
- Fire - the fire is emphasising the destruction, pain, passion, anger within the emotions of the characters in the video
- mise-en-scene - is very realistic
- the couple aren't really rich, this is seen from their small and quite grungy home
- or adhere to normal rules, you see this from when they are stealing from the supermarket type shop
- you are given a real insight into their lives, making it quite realistic
- light comes from behind them - which is a reference to the fire - costume - the costumes which they are wearing throughout, is very relevant to how they are living and the sorts of lives that they are carrying out throughout the music video
- point of view shot - this is within the narrative part of the music video, and it shoes a numer on his hand 'Cindy'
- jux to position - from the character within the narrative to Eminem, whos costume is very iconic of himself
- eminem - is outside and it is showing his freedom, and liberty of freedom and escaping from his girlfriend - the camera is tilting and panning throughout this part
- tracks through rooms - making you aware that it is a music video
Conventions..
- at the very beginning - what you are hearing is very sombre and sad, quite slow, there is an image of happy close ups with contrapuntal music
- Edits - between the narrative and artists singing
- the man character - silhouette's Eminem's line, whilst in the shop relating them together
- narrative interlude
- narrative constructed through a montage and flash backs to them previously being happy
- the images are in time with the music
Love The Way You Lie and When September Ends Compared
- They are very similar in that both have temporal leaps
- However, 'Love the Way You Lie' doesn't demonstrate any temporal continuity
- 'When September Ends' video is very chronological
- In 'Love the Way You Lie' the artists aren't performing on stage and they don't seem to be performing live, but just within the characters within the video's mise-en-scene, this is different to 'When September Ends' as Green Day have their own stage and all of their equipment set up
- In 'Love the Way You Lie' the actors and singers words collide in the end
Michael Jackson - Thriller
- 'Thriller' is one of the most influential videos of all time
- At the time it was revolutionary and it still is today
- The conventions which are used within 'Thriller' we have seen in many other music videos, however, it was probably one of the first music videos to also break many of the normal conventions
- The genre of 'Thriller' is supposed to be that of a "Horror Movie"
- First convention shown is the font - it is what you would expect from a horror movie, red and slashed
- Opening scene - within the opening shot the mise-en-scene, it is very realistic
- has diegetic sounds of frogs
- it's very dark and creepy
- tracking shot - camera work is going through the trees, as though someone is watching them
- there is focus on progressing and moving the story on
- You see Michael Jackson's feet which is very iconic of him, with his socks showing and trousers up
- Non diegetic music - it is not the music video's music - it's a code for eery/drama
- You can see Michael Jackson is likely to turn into a werewolf
- Series of close ups to show what is happening
- Mise-en-scene - dark/forest/misty it's night time with moonlight shining through - which is a convention of horror
- Film within a film -this had never been done before in music videos
- This video was where he got one of his many iconic costumes from
- Introductory narrative - is like Green Day's (comparisson)
- The editing is in sync with the mise-en-scene - no one is around and it is deserted
- narrative and the song make sense together, it is well fitted
- You look at the cemetry that he just walked past - very subtle - the characters havent realised
- The song is a vehicle for the video - that's how revolutionary that it was
- Now the people are a part of the narrative as well as being a part of the music video (breaking the conventions)
- Establishing shot - of the house
- 'all a dream'...
- Credits at the end like a film
Madonna - Like A Prayer
- The artist Madonna is in both the song and the narrative
- There is a story within a story
- It has a narrative within it, and it is merging the worlds
- Dream like - making it unrealistic
- In the end you realise that it is a play
- Targetting and emphasising bad things like the KKK and burning of a cross
Conventional Film Editing
- There is continuity
- coherence
- chronological
- music videos don't really adhere to this
- quick cuts
- montage
- temporal leaps
- lack of continuity
- use a series of images to create a sense/impression
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Directed by Michael Gondry
- The artists are performing throughout, there is no narritive - so this video is focussing on the bands musicality
- They are a band that want to be taken seriously
- The colour scheme of red/white/black is very iconic for them - used for things like their album covers - serious and professional colours
Target audience - those who are interested in 'indie' music, young male/female, who see music as a means of expression
Radiohead - Fade Out (Street Spirit)
- There is no narrative
- Series of striking images - which are related to the message and impressions that they are trying to give off
- There is a lack of continuity
- It's all black and white, but why? - links to the lyrics and memories
- There is bad performing in the video world
- Transience of life
- Subtle
- See people - close ups to see their expressions
- Artists performing
- Slow
- Images and edits are all in sync at all times throughout
- There are a series of quick edits, which is making a montage
Rascall Flats - What Hurts The Most
- Narrative
- Open field (like in 'Love the Way You Lie' with Eminem) - at the beginning when the song starts, with the sun behind them and then it flashes to the narrative
- There is a break within the music which links the dialogue
- A lot of close ups
- Also have a band performance on a stage
System of a Down - Toxictiy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJmt3dr9XYQ
Codes..
- Toxicity - the star is not being appreciated, mocking it, drained and at an off set angle
- Costume - black, dark and very anti-authoritive
- Drummer - focusses on him so you know that they are a rock band and you can see his ability
- White background - focusses on them
- Lighting - it is what is used for live performances
- On the sofa - code for them not being interested in the world around them - disaffection
Conventions..
- Features the band throughout
- Settings
- Performance
- Close ups of the instruments and the band
- Breaks 180 degree rule constantly
- In sync with the music
- Low angle shots from the crowd/audience
- Defocuses
- Lighting
- Bisects the body in different ways
- Camera is never static
- Dolly shots
- More typical than other videos I have seen
- Costume - to create an image and identity
- Iconic beards?
- Clever edits
- Their music defines them - they don't need a narrative
- Shot from audience so that you can feel their stage prescence
3OH!3 - Double Vision
- This video is very unique from any other video I have ever seen
- Throughout this video has been filmed as though it is a website
- You are aware of this from the people moving around in white suits and big arrows on sticks that it isn't real, which is making you focus on the music
- It has been made to look like a real website, as there are often adverts popping up like on websites - there is a definite realism within this even though its far from a website
- It's a very postmodern music video
- Within the 'internet' mise-en-scene there is a youtube like clip where it is as though the artists are playing live
- It uses things like the loading symbol on mac computers (the multi coloured circle) keeping with the conventions of computers and internet to keep the realism going throughout
- The video also plays on a viral video of a kanye west song where two girls have the words of the song on their bodies and do it in time - (in this case it was relevant to 3OH!3
- At the end of the video it breaks any realism that there was in the video with a shot of the camera crew and what looks to be the directors to show the process of how it was made almost - this isn't normal to music videos and so in some ways is breaking some of the conventions
Sugababes - About A Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV148zhtJgk
- establishing shot to begin - so that you know they are in the middle of nowhere, in a desert in a caravan so it's likely to be a shadey deal
- low angle shot of the door - and diegetic sound of squeaky door, and then voice comes on over the door to link you to the narrative
- then narrative begins
- costumes - suggest that they are business men
- man sitting down - obviously not good, has a body guard type person over him all of the time
- overall point that men are better than girls, but are they really?
- as laughing fades out, music coming on
- low angle shot - next to the wheels of the car as its driving
- the singers, look the same as the characters who are representing them in the video
- they are talking whilst the video is going on - see subtitles, they are here to defeat the men
- see behind their heads, through the front windscreen - point of view through the car shot
- the sugababes are they are doing a dance somewhere close, as it has the same kind of mise en scene (they are the artists so they are performing)
- the female characters - out of the car and looking at the caravan and the man steps outside (code for it's going to kick off)
- narrative going on whilst the sugababes are singing and dancing
- lot of close up shots on the females (titalation? with their outfits too quite revealing)
- song words - going with what's going to happen within the video
- switching between artists world and the narrative world
- narrative - when the words say you doing know about a girl - she suprises them and fights (so doing what the words say)
- when they are fighting all cutting from close up shots to wide shots - gives you a better sense of drama and action
- there are more bad characters - (dressed all in black coming from back of the caravan)
- when they are fighting never keeping in the camera in the same place - gives a sense of struggle
- cuts between narrative and music constantly - the music side is very girly, the girls looking pretty and dancing, whereas in the narrative - the girls are being more manly, by beating people up, and braving deals with men
- establishing shot - so that the audience is kept aware of where the characters and musicians are and what is happening
- then you go to a close up of the female characters - and they have tied up all of the males and have taken control of the situation - which is relating to the lyrics
- then the camera is tracking - the females back to the car as they have completed their mission within the shot
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