The document discusses a music video for the song "House Every Weekend" and analyzes various elements of its genre, narrative, camera work, and conventions. It notes that the video has no main performer and instead focuses on the dance theme through various actors dancing in different locations. As the song's beat increases, the happiness and dancing of the performers increases as well. Standard camera shots and angles are used, and shot lengths become shorter and cuts more frequent as the song builds. The video follows conventions of the dance music genre.

1. House Every Weekend
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2.  I chose this song for a number of reasons, firstly it is
the same genre which my group and I want to do.
 During the music video there is no performer, its all
narrative. As a group we decided to have no
performer and to just have narrative
Why I chose the song?

3.  The genre of this song is dance
 The music video to this song displays typical genetic
conventions shown in many videos of this genre.
 In the video there is no main performer and so it is all
narrative. Throughout the video there are many
actors dancing to the song which emphasizes on the
dance theme
Genre

4.  The location of this video contently changes
throughout the video. It also has a number of
performers all in different locations during the video
 At the start of the video, the performers seem
stressed/bored until the main part of the song comes
on
Mise-en-scene

5.  As soon as you come into the main part of the song
the performers start dancing/running, it is like as the
beat of the song increases the happiness of the
performers increases to.

6.  During the video there are only a selection camera
shots/angles, there is an angle from right behind the
performer or some are close ups in front of the
performer.
 The camera shot from in front of the performer helps
the audience see the expressions the performer is
showing and it helps the audience connect to the
actor
Camera work

7.  At the start of the song the shot lengths are quite
long, however as you get more into the song and the
main part comes on the scenes become short and the
camera cuts very quickly to another scene of
someone else dancing.
 This is a sign of the genre, as most songs of this genre
have this convention.

8.  This music video follows most of the conventions you
see of the videos of this genre.
 There is basically none static shots throughout the
music video, the movement of the camera adds to the
excitement of the music.
 In the video you see the performers wearing very
fashionable clothing which is another convention
Conventions

9.  The music itself is very fast paced and a cut to a new
shot is around every 1 or 2 seconds when the song
gets going
 The soundtrack and the words also make you want to
dance which also helps identify what genre it is.