RESEARCH Music Video Analysis

Music Video: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana, Director Samuel Bayer.

Features :

• Genre Characteristics: the genre which this is heavy mental, and it is a performance video which is happening within a school gym.
• Relationship between lyrics and visual: there is a clear relationship within this video because the title of the song is 'Smells Like Teen Sprit' and the video has taken place within a school gym which is full of teenagers.
• Relationship between music and visual: the relationship between these two is put across through whats happening within the music video, the music seems quite violent and this is emphasised within the music video which is showing people being quite violent and reckless.
• Close up of the artists: we have a number of close ups of all of the band, but we have a lot of close ups on the lead singer Kurt Cobain.
• Reference to the notion of looking: there is not any within this music video.
• Intertextual references: none come up within this music video.
• Type of Music Video: this a performance based music video.
• Hegemonic/ Non Hegemonic: this is a counter hegemonic music video.

Music Video: Brand New Day Joshua Radin

• Genre Characteristics: the genre of this song is Altertnative/Easy Listening, and the video is sort of ironic because it is opposite to easy listening because of amount of stuff which is happening within the music video.
• Relationship between lyrics and visual: There is a clear relationship between the lyrics and visual, because the song is called Brand New Day and it is showing how anything which happens to him he will be alright because it is showing in the video with all that stuff still happening to him he'll still be alright.
• Relationship between music and visual: the music video is ironic when it is linked to the genre of music, usually the video is very calm and laid back so it goes with the music. However on the other hand this music video is really crazy and everything seems to be going on within it the music video.
• Close up of the artist: This video has a lot of close ups of the artist because it just him and not a whole of another band. But we do have a lot of variety of shots within the hole music video which makes it a lot more interesting.
• Reference to the notion of looking: they only have notion of looking within the music video which is when he gets kidnapped into the van and you have his vision which is him looking into the van with the two guys in it.
• Intertextual references: there is no intertextual references.
• Type of Music Video: this is a performance based video because it always has him singing and playing the guitar throughout, however you could say that it is narrative because it does tell a story throughout the video, a lot of little sub stories.
• Hegemonic/ Non Hegemonic: neither does not really do anything to prove either side of argument.

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Music Video Remake Preliminary Task

The song which we had chosen was Kickstart By Example, we chose this song is on the bases of the music video for the song because it was a bit different to the usual music video which you see. This is a narrative music video because it has no performance linking into the video. What we set out to do was to copy and try to recreate the music video to the best standard which we were capably of. The main story of the video is that there is a couple then two of the thugs are after them, we have tried to copy the video is every aspect possible.

When reviewing the video were overall happy with how it has turned out, the only problem which we thought about when looking back over the video is that we have not used anything new to AS media videos, such as we could of used lip syncing which would of made and developed our skills within media studies.

And here is the original video which we tried to remake.