2. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Style;
performance, narrative, mixture,
cameo
- Performance
Camera;
shots, angles, shot length, movement
- Medium shot – on the tracks playing instruments or singing
- long shot at the end before camera slowly tracks out
- Most of shots are long with a few short shots
Editing;
pace, cutting, special effects
- Long editing – long shots
- Tracking shot, camera goes up and down on track going in and out of the performers,
Sound;
diegetic, non-diegetic
- Only diegetic sound of song and lyrics
3. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Mise en scene;
Costume, lighting, acting, make
up, props, setting, colour
- Just wearing normal clothing – janes and shirts
- Setting – down an alley/passage way
- Props – have some of the items they talk about in the song such as shoes, boxes etc. they also have their guitars, drums
and microphones
- It is quite a bright alleyway
- They are acting quite stiff and angry in their actions and the way they move. There is also some head banging going on
when it is the guitar solos
- Masks show they are close as a band and know each other really well also adds to the fact that they are really quirky
- Alley way stresses the normality of lives and how you can make life more fun by being quirky and having a good
personality
Representation - Represents their fun personality as a band and as individuals
- Quite quirky video which is alternative showing what their personalities are like which fits with the music
Message - Being yourself to make life more fun and brighten it up
- For the band it is all about the music
- Shouldn’t care what people think of you
