The music video for "Wild" by Troye Sivan uses a blue color palette and film-like visual style to tell a narrative story. It opens like a film with credits and follows the developing relationship between Sivan's character and another boy against the backdrop of a troubled home life. Close-ups of Sivan lip syncing are intercut with scenes advancing the plot. The video draws inspiration from coming-of-age films like Paper Towns while representing Sivan's experience as part of the LGBTQ community. It is one video in a trilogy that collectively tells the full story.
2. Film Language
• 'Wild' is a song by the Australian singer Troye Sivan from his album
Blue Neighbour. There are two music videos for this song both feature
the artist one features another artist that is on the song the other is
part of the of a three video trilogy.
• The video uses a lot of wide shots showing the sky because the colour
blue is highlighted in the video and they only use straight cuts
because it makes it more like a film which is the effect they wanted. It
opens with credit like a film and it finishes by cutting to black.
3. Genre characteristics
• ‘Wild’ by Troye Sivan is a electropop and dream pop.
• A key convention is the way they open it is a common thing for
electropop videos is that they open like films with credits and a shot
of where the video is filmed.
• The narrative is also a key convention as most electropop videos
have similar narratives mostly about being different and not having
a traditional love story for example another electropop video that is
like this is ‘colours’ by Halsey.
4. Mise-en-scene
• The video is shot so that it highlights the colour blue this is because
the album is called ‘blue neighbourhood’ this also because blue can
describe how your feeling and it is a sad feeling which is how the
characters in the video feel.
• The video is also light pastel
colours with a film like filter to
make it fell more like a film then a
music video.
• The costumes are blue or white
the dad who could be called the
bad guy is the only one who
doesn’t wear a blue.
5. Links to the lyrics
• They are showing a shot of the
boys climbing a tree and the song
goes, “Trying hard not to fall.” This
lyric can also be seen as a
metaphor for there relationship as
it could mean falling in love.
• “Leave this blue
neighbourhood” This lyric is
talking about them trying to
escape it is shown throw
them jumping in the ocean
and all the blue in the shot.
6. Representation of artist
• There are lots of close of shots of the artist while singing in he doesn’t
look at the camera while lip syncing. The artist is playing a character
in the video while lip syncing. He stays in the same place while lip
syncing but it straight cuts between him singing and the story that the
video is telling.
• There are no girls in the video so there is nothing to compare with.
7. Intertextual references
• The plot of the video is not based on films or books that I could find but it is
similar to paper towns with the difference of the couple in paper towns being a
straight couple and the one in the video being a gay couple. They both show
them when there children and then they grow up to be in love.
• Here is an example of the film next to the video this shows how similar they
are and they even have the same colours. The bikes are symbols of their
youth .
8. Performance, narrative or concept based?
• 'Wild' is a narrative based music video, the music video was made as part of a
trilogy of music videos telling the story of the artist and the boy he has a crush
on. There are three videos each telling a different bit of the story.
• The video shows the dad as an acholic and it shows
the beginning of the boys relationship.
