Video Analysis

Example-Watch The Sun Come Up

I really like this video. It creates the atmosphere of the song and anchors the meaning of the song of the song and illustrates the words. However, the main thing I like is the use of animation over the top. It creates a really interesting effect and creates some create transitions between shots. It gives a seamless feel where it all runs together. It also anchors how he doesn't want to be at home and would rather be on this holiday, by being able to seamlessly cut between it makes it feel like they're being compared in his mind. I also like how the lighting goes with the mood of the song, as it starts off at night time but then towards the end where it gets more upbeat and the narrative becomes happier it becomes daytime and the shots work really well to show this with the use of sun reflections and glimmers of light from behind the characters and through trees. It creates the feeling of 'another day'/ a new day, which is what the song is saying the singer wants. I especially love 0:43-0:48. This is a great piece of editing where it completely changes location seamlessly and by him being in the same place seems to connote that he is there in London, but is dreaming he was there on the beach.

Video Analysis

Just Jack-The Day I Died

This video is very interesting as it has no performance or lip syncing. However, this works as the video illustrates the words and tells the story so a performance isn't needed. It is as if the music is the narrator of the video. The video completely illustrates what the words are saying. Normally this is very cheesy but it works completely in this video due to the great acting and song being very much a story. However, not every line is precisely right to the video, which works well as it helps to add meaning, as your getting the original story but some extra as well. It also works very well due to the actor James Nesbitt, being very well known. This creates familiarity and also he normally plays an average family guy so it seems very believable. The editing also captures the mood of the video as it is very slow, almost mellow a lot like the song.

Track Idea

Jose Gonzalez-Cycling Trivialities

This song is beautiful and I absolutely love it but I think if making a music video there could be an issue as the song doesn't completely end till around 7 minutes 18 seconds however it carries on the guitar from about 4:35 till then without changing much at all so it could be possible to cut some out. But this would still mean it is a long video. However, I think the song could work really well as it has a really strong meaning of how our lives are so small compared to how big the universe is and how we might think all our issues are huge but they won't even make a difference to the future. I think in a music video this could be represented through an everyday scenario of how a family man has all these decisions to make and seems to put a lot of thought into them and gets stressed about them but every so often their is something much larger and meaningful which he ignores i.e he is on the phone trying to make a buisness deal and the news is on about a tragedy and he flicks it off to concentrate on the phone. Another example is that he is choosing a suit to buy and after purchasing one he walks past a homeless person who has tattered clothes and asks the man for help which he ignores. The video would show how people think so much of their lives and the little things when much more important things are happening around them which they pay little attention to.

Acoustic Rap?

Tupac Ft Nas-Thugz Mansion(Acoustic)

I find this song and video incredible. It combines to genres which are quite extremely different. There is a huge gap in the market for something like this as it turns what is normally seen as people shouting about guns and girls into something a lot more deep and meaningful. The video also works very well as it uses a very simple idea to convey a strong message. I think it is trying to portray the message of how anyone can get hurt by shootings and gang rivalry as well as showing that so many people are affected. By changing character faces but having the same goal it connotes a feeling of society and as every race is represented it powerfully shows how everyone could be affected. The pace is very slow to work with the song, and there is only a small focus on the performance putting emphasis on the narrative and message being portrayed.

Inspiration

Metallica-Frantic

I find this video brilliant as even though im nto a fan of the song, the video really conveys the song very well. The pace of the video works perfectly with the music which achors the songs sense of calm and then chaos. I really find inspiration from this as I think some of the techniques used are great. Such as at moments such as 3:17 where the chorus comes in, they edit between different CU's of the lead singer. This works in parrallel with the words of 'Frantic, Tic-Toc' and gives it a 'frantic' pace. Also the contrast in the verses, where everything moves fast except the character of the narrative moves very slowly. This works well as it this emphasises the slowness and change of pace.