Textual Analysis 2 - Recommended Music Videos

 

In the first music video, "I write sins no tragedies" by Panic! At the Disco, the mise-en-scene is based about a wedding using formal attires and the such that is usually what is seen worn at events like weddings, though when the family for the groom's side enters, they're very out of place with their clothing. They wear circus type clothing that's very out of place at an important event and makes them stand out, causing a contradiction of what should be worn to such events.

There's also a part at the beginning where the music video follows Goodwin's conventions, it being a relationship between lyrics and visuals as during this bit the lyrics mention "in exchanging of words" the duo afterwards say "I love you" to one another. It's also quite fast paced and has a few flashes to white, especially when it comes to the part when the Groom became the leader of the group in the end.
During one point, there's a low angled short where the camera is looking up at the guy who's blowing the glitter to all those on the bride's side, showing some kind of dominance over them as they suddenly start dancing, this could indicate them as being easily manipulated by others and their intentions.

Royal Blood's video "Out of the Black" parodies X-Files with the opening cartoon, as well as uses animation for most of the music video, especially for the complicated parts of it. This is the second music video I looked at as this had a quick pace which was done successfully through the use of editing of quick shots use multiple times. Tracking shots as well were used during scenes when following the movement of the creature in the rabbit costume escaping the gas station with it's stash.

There's also a part where the lyrics match with the visuals once more as in this video, the lyrics say "don't breathe" and at this point, the rabbit suit strangle another male as this matches the lyrics in a way.

There's a low angled shot that's looking up at the customer whom the guy who works at the gas station is serving, as though showing that the customer has higher priority over the person who works there at the station.

There's also some fade to whites, like the other video, which is used when it comes to points where the video changes to animations/cartoons, a change in style for the music video and shows a lot more action compared to what happens when it's not animated.



The third music video was "All the Small Things" by Blink 182 which is a parody of multiple artists and what the usual thing is done in music videos, the stereotype.

They parody other older music videos through the use of close ups that seem very familiar as well as parodying the stereotype of genre characteristics where this is a boy band and they followed dance routines that is noticed throughout the music video. Different camera shots are used as well, them being lots of close ups of the artists, something that's often done in music videos but then they end up zooming out to show the full picture where, as example, it looks like the male is showering but it turns out that he has a hose over the top of him, running only by accident, making a joke of what people usually do in music videos during that time, the past, and times to come as well.

There's a lot of quick short cuts that are hard to keep up with throughout the music video as it switches to the band in different locations multiple times, too many for the viewer to keep up with at points and can demonstrate the randomness of the video itself.

The lyrics in this music video don't match up at all to what is occurring in the music video as there's many random scenes but nothing that truthfully matches completely to what is happening at the time. The main bit that actually shows some resemblance to the lyrics is when he says "carry me home" and makes the motion of how a mother carries a child away.

In the fourth music video by Lana Del Rey called "Video Games"  there were many intertextual references as it was made using old footage from home movies made from the artists past an can be seen as something to be looking back on. There's also a lot of notion of looking in this video as the artist looks directly at the camera each time she's singing as well as various scenes in the home footage where people are looking to the camera, giving it an authentic effect.

There's non-continuity present in editing but this is due to it being random points in home footage where the clips have been taken from so it would be obvious that there wouldn't be a lot of continuity with the videos.

There's also plenty of establishing shots which are noticed due to the amount of street images shown which set the scene, showing where she's grown u and the such as it's literally taking a trip down memory lane for the artist. There is one bit in the song where the lyrics match the visuals as there was a scene where there was a couple lying on the ground next to one another and she says "it's all for you".