The video features Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway performing for a large crowd at a music venue. Scenes show the stereotypical behaviors of EDM performers like getting the crowd hyped. Narrative elements include the performers flying privately to the performance location, representing the equilibrium, which is disrupted when the music drops and the crowd gets energized. Iconography includes the artists' names on DJ tables and their use of decks and headphones, typical for live EDM performances. The setting alternates between the dark, strobe-lit music venue and private jets. Technical elements include varying lighting that pulses with the music and edited establishing shots introducing the artists and song.

1. Wizard - Martin GarrixAnd Jay Hardway
Genre elements Conventions
Characters –
representations,
stereotypes, behaviour,
body language, specific
actors/stars
Characters in the video are the 2 performers Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway and also all,
the people that are in the crowd. There is the stereotype of the sweatiness and energy of
the house music genre shown in the crowd and the performers. The behaviour of the
performers is conventional to the genre as they show a lot of energy and get the crowed
hyped in a stereotypical way by getting their hands up in the air. The scene were they are
in private jets is also stereotypical of the genre as they are shown to live jet setting
lifestyles.
Narrative events –how is
the narrative ordered and
structured? Can character
types or other narrative
elements such as
opposites/ stages of
equilibrium/disequilibrium
be applied to
photos/video?
The video is mainly performance with elements of narrative. The performance element of
the video has the Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway performing the song to hundreds of
people in a venue which is possibly part of a music festival. The element of narrative is the
artist flying to the venue which is the state of equilibrium in the narrative. The equilibrium
is broken when the music drops and the performersand crowd go wild to the music.
Iconography – props,
symbolic
codes/fonts/colour
schemes
Iconography used is the both of the artist name that appear at the start of the video which
are always presented as a cover on the Dj tables when preforming live. The deck and the
headphones what the artist use is also another part of iconography in the video as you
would expect to the see this in most live performances for the genre of music
Setting- mise en scene in
moving image/photos
The mise en scene of the video is a music venue were the are preforming for many people
which is dark and lit by the strobe lights that are in time with the music. The second scene
is when both of the artist are in private jets flying in to preform together.
Technical and audio codes
– camera use, editing,
lighting, diegetic/non
diegetic sound, sfx/page
layout: the Guttenberg
principle/rule of thirds
The lighting in the video varies between high and low key. Most of the lighting is deduced
from the strobe lighting which impulses in time to the music. The lighting is also edited in
at the beginning during the establishing shot which identifies both artists and the song
name surrounded by the edited strobe lighting. The editing is slow paced at first until the
beat drops then the pace of the editing speeds up in to the speed of the music.