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.