Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Textual analysis of music video's

The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love

The frames in this video were very long, which is unusual of a rock music video. The characteristics of the genre aren't shown through the setting, but the lead character is very stereotypical of a rock band. The word love is being constantly reinforced by both the sexual nature of the character and the mise-en-scene which is red to symbolize love. This video is mainly concept and perfromance based.



Airbourne - Too much, Too young, Too fast

This video has lots of pans and tilts, which gives a faster pace to the video, this is also helped by the amount of movement from the band and the short frames. The plain background gives the audience nothing else to focus on but the band, therefore making the video more performance based. There are a variety of shots used and a lot of close ups of the vocalist, however not so many of the rest of the band.

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