Analysis of other music videos (1)

We have chosen two more videos to analyse. The first one is You Me At Six’s 'Underdog'. We chose this because of the performance element in the video and the way they have used different lighting effectively. We liked the idea of the red lighting as the video starts and you can just see the bands silhouettes. The light then slowly reveals the lead singer and eventually the rest of the band. This mise en scene gives quite a mysterious feel which fits in well with the nature of the song and the concept of our video. We could use this effect to slowly reveal our band members at the beginning of the video as we enter into the park. It leaves the audience wanting to know more which creates tension which would be perfect for our theme. Also, you get the idea that the band are performing to an audience which is what we want in our video, however, our audience is the zombies.

Shortly after this shot, you will be first introduced to the lead singer, as the light shines on his face, and also uses a close up, to illustrate that he is in the fact the most important member of the band. Soon after this, the lights turn on to introduce you to the band properly, as you can see all there faces and see the instruments they are playing.We also like the performance idea of this video as we want half our video to be narrative and half to be performance. This way, the viewers can easily tell who the band are.

Goodwins analysis -

This song would normally be classed as an 'indie rock' song. Characteristics of this genre are mainly performance of the band which defiantly works in this video as it is the main focus.

The lyrics of this song and video are mainly contradicting due to the majority of the video being performance. Also, when there is some acting, the lyrics still don't really match what is happening. The song is quite fast paced and this is related to the video by the fast cut rate.

There is a huge amount of close ups in this video of the whole band such as their instruments, but mainly the lead singer. This is to advertise the band, promote them and the record label.

There is slight voyeurism in this video which is used to draw male attention to the video as You Me At Sixes main audience are female, but with this in the video it allows males to want to watch it also.