The document summarizes and analyzes the music video for "We Are Young" by Fun. and Janelle Monae. It notes that the band is presented in older fashioned attire in a modern club setting. While there is some relationship between the images and lyrics around a teenage girl experiencing the party scene, the author feels they do not coincide strongly enough. Common features of the video include the band's suits, a teenage girl dancing and getting into trouble, and slow motion effects. The main tagline and catchphrase referenced is the song's title "We Are Young."

1. A2 Music Video Research
Lauren Maskrey

2. Music Video 2:
FUN. & Janelle Monae- We Are Young

3. How’re the band/artist
represented?
Is this similar across the videos?:
In the video ‘We Are Young’, by Fun. and Janelle Monae, the band and the artist
are presented as an older fashioned band in a more modern atmosphere. I like this
idea as it shows the difference between older fashioned atmospheres and more
modern atmosphere’s. In the video they don’t change where they are performing,
how they’re dressed or what they are doing. This shows some consistence, but I
wouldn’t want this for my video, I would prefer a variety of settings and what my
artists do in the video, I would want to change their outfits too.

4. What relationships exist between
images and lyrics in the chosen
video?:
There is some relationship between the images and lyrics in the video. This is
because there is a young teenage girl in the video experiencing the party scene.
‘We Are Young’ represents this. I don’t think that the images in the video relate
much with the lyrics. I don’t want this to happen with my music video, I will make
sure that the lyrics and the video coincide.

5. What relationship exists between
the music and the images?:
The music video and the images do have some similarities, the scenes in the video
are things that are mentioned in the video. When the teenage girl is at the bar in
the club, the lyrics and music are fitting for that scene. However, most of the music
doesn’t have much reference to the images and they don’t have many similarities.
In my music video, I want the music, lyrics and images to be fitting and I want them
to have reference to each other. This means that the audience will have better
understanding of the video than something that is more mixed up.

6. Are there any inter-textual
references to other media forms? If
so who/what?:
There are no other major inter-textual references to other media forms, apart from
a new phone to be released ‘The Windows Phone’ which gets thrown across the
club by a teenage girl. I will probably have phones and other media forms in my
video as it is going to be a modern music video.

7. Is it possible to see any common
features in the music video?:
There are some common features in the music video, these are:
The suits that make the band look more old fashioned, but they’re playing in a
modern club.
The teenage girl dancing and getting into trouble.
The slow-motion in the video.
I am going to have some reoccurring features in my video, but I like the use of
slow motion as it makes it seem more interesting and makes it seem like you are in
the scene.

8. What taglines or catchphrases are
present?:
‘We Are Young’ is constantly used in the video. The phrase is repeated again and
again, and the video is based on this tagline. This is done by showing teenagers in
a club and getting up to various things. I would like a catchphrase in my music
video so it’s catchy and I have something to base my video on.