Music Video inspirations

Fat Boy Slim - Praise You

• Unusual - breaks conventions, no band bembers, in shopping center with dance group

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Mise-en-scene, girls in anarchy tops relates to rebellious attitude
• Smoke & low light with Grunge band members - very conventional

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

• Very quirky, lots of artistical inspirational
• One shot with lots of CGI - stop motion

Radiohead - No Surprises

• One shot
• Lyrics scrolling up like a teleprompter for him, like he's being forced to do it

Nirvana - In Bloom

• Starts off quite odd - set in 50s, where the genre doesn't fit in
• Similar style to Beatles video, then changed to a mickey take, starts destroying the place

REM - Everybody hurts

• Starts with shown lyrics, moves to what people are thinking, gives a short insight into all the people shown
• No performance until the very end, people seem to follow him like Pied Piper

Camera Shots

• Bandshots, Whole band shots
• Shadows/Lighting
• Highlighting/Brightlighting all over
• High Angle/Low Angle
• Special Lighting effects
• Close-ups/Extreme Close-ups
• Animation and video special effects (CGI/Green Screen)
• Colour effects - often monochrome/black and white

Mise-en-Scene

Equal division of shots on band members or focus on key members.

How is narrative used? Cut into the performance/Merged/Purely Narrative

Does is amplify the lyrics?

Contradict/Illustrate them.

Intertextuality: taking ideas from another existing text, may be a carbon copy, a pastiche, a parody or a homage - or borrow from a movie.

The borrowing of such images & reconstructing them is known as 'post-modern'.

Representation:

• Glamour/popstar lifestyle
• Mean & moody men
• Women represented as sex icons
• Anti-establisment activity/rebelious
• Deserted locations/Urban Locations/Delapidated
• Voyeurism - people watching people when they don't know