The video features YouTubers Markiplier, Minx, and Boyinaband expressing their desire to be friends with famous video game horror villains like Slenderman and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill. Through a montage of pictures and gameplay clips set to an original song, the YouTubers describe friendly activities they would do with the monsters, such as going on a road trip in Slenderman's van. The video relies on intertextual references to the various horror villains through pictures and direct mentions of their names.
2. WHAT´S THE CONCEPT
The concept of this video is quite interesting, The concept of this video is 3
youtubers trying to be friends with some of video games most notorious horror
villains. These monsters range from the iconic Slenderman, necromorphs and
even Pyramid Head from the Silent Hill franchise. In the video it is described the
friendly things that these individuals would want to do with the monster even
“Taking a road trip in the Slendervan”
3. CAMERA
The camera is used in a few occasions, most of the video is concentrated on
the funny montage of pictures and gameplay used by all 3 youtubers to try
and describe their happy feelings towards the monsters. The camera however
is used in a few occasions consisting of medium shots to close ups of one of
the youtubers, finally the camera is used at the end of the video when two of
the youtubers are walking in the woods. This is also one of Sven Carlssons
modern mythical embodiments in this case it’s the televised bard which tells a
story through visual means.
4. SOUND
The sound of the music video I can safely say its unique, this is due to the fact
that the youtubers made their own lyrics and music. The music video is
followed by the lyrics of the track, this is when a theory devised by Andrew
Goodwin come in, this theory is the visual representation between the video
and the lyrics, which I can assure is very factual in this case as every lyrics in
the video is linked to either one of the pictures or shots used by the youtubers.
5. MISE-EN-SCENE
There isn’t much Mise-en-scene in the video, we can see one of the
characters costumes, which is very typical YouTuber dress, the reason being
that its typical is due to the fact that youtubers spend most of their day at
home making video, so therefore they dress normally, however what we can
see is one of the youtubers rooms with a computer at the beginning
furthermore we also see one of the characters putting a cone on his head
used for one of the lyrics.
6. EDITING
The editing is quite simplistic, The video relies on the pictures shown within the
video as it also relies on the beat of the song to stay on track with what is
being said in the video.
7. INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES
Within the video we see quite a bit of intertextual references, the characters of
the video show the intertextual references in the video by calling all the villains
by name such as slenderman or the grunt from the game amnesia.