Chemtrails over the country club analysis loops media

1. Lana Del Rey –
Chemtrails over
the country club
(music video)
analysis
Loops Media

2. GENERAL CONVENTIONS1: Lyrics/visuals; Narrative
• 'wearing our jewels' - wearing jewelry
• Diegetic sound of burning (0:42 – 0:44)
• 'all of your jewels' - putting necklace on
• 'Kids' swimming pool' - kid jumping in the pool
• 'you're no fun' - contrasting visuals, people having fun, appears in the
format of a flashback, nostalgic filter
• 'red sports car' - driving a red sports car
• 'we laugh at nothing' - group shot of women laughing

3. GENERAL CONVENTIONS2: Genre characteristics
• Contrast between light dark themes
• Appears unconventional for the first half of the video (innocence
theme) - until video changes
• Striking visual, Lana Del Rey bites lemon, mood changes
• Music style doesn't fit her general music genre

4. GENERAL CONVENTIONS2: Genre characteristics
• Dark lighting
• Flames (hell connotations)
• 'Out of this world' theme – vampire, werewolf, alien-like eyes
• Religious connotations - devilish, tornado suggests God is angry
• Fast editing, unique transitions

5. GENERAL CONVENTIONS3: Intertextuality + postmodernism
• Strong influence from 50s era (old-fashioned sports cars, Audrey
Hepburn influence
• Framing, editing – square, specifically simulacrum. Lines, dots and
static (created by dust) on old film
• Contrast with the modern element (wearing insignificant mask)

6. GENERAL CONVENTIONS4: Representations
• Feminist – men appear secondary
• Only shows the man at the end, he holds her, but she has been active,
dominant in secret,
• Females are in control
• All characters are heteronormative

7. GENERAL CONVENTIONS5: Cinematography + Editing
• Bokeh
• Lighting – transitions from white, light blue to black and white, dark
blue, red
• Unique transition creates image of 'burning' film reel – foreshadowing
the later commotion in the video
• Uses the light flickers as transitions
• Cross dissolves – used to show passage of time