This document summarizes and analyzes the music video for the song "Weightless" by All Time Low. It discusses several ways the video uses voyeurism, including showing words representing the band members' thoughts and showing behind-the-scenes footage. The video is classified as a performance video, showing the band performing on stage. It also focuses on each band member through close-ups. The words on screen sometimes mock other bands. The lyrics and visuals are well-synchronized through lip syncing. Finally, the editing pace matches the beat of the song as it increases for the chorus.

1. One idea that I liked is the use of words coming up on screen
throughout the song which are meant to show people’s
thoughts. This is really creative and links in with the song
lyrics. It is a part of voyeurism as the audience wouldn’t
usually know what the band members are thinking. Another
way that voyeurism is used is through showing All Time Low
backstage which very few fans would ever see.

2. The genre of this music video is a performance video as the band are shown on stage performing their song at a
concert. For this type of music I think that this is effective as it shows the band playing their own instruments and
their crowds reaction to this.

3. Star iconography is also shown through a range of shots which focus on the artists. Each member of All Time
Low is shown various times, with the whole band being shown in long or mid shots and then single members
being shown in close ups. This allows the audience to see the band as well as each member as they may
recognise them or have a favourite who they want to see.

4. The text appearing on screen is sometimes insulting
people appearing in the video as well as referring to
other bands, although the insults doesn’t actually refer to
any other bands in particular. I think this could be seen
as intertextuality as it shows All Time’s Low disapproval
of the general behaviour of other groups or bands in a
slightly mocking way.
The words on screen also refer to other bands such
as Fall Out Boy which is also intertextuality. This
includes one man wearing a Fall Out Boy T shirt.

5. The lyrics and visuals of this video match as
there is a lot of lip syncing due to it being a
performance video. I think that the visuals that
aren’t lip syncing tend to match the over all
message of the song, rather than individual lines
of the song.
According to Goodwin’s theory, the music and visuals of a song will match such as editing on the beat or a song
with a quicker beat having a music video with a quicker pace. In this case I counted a huge number of beats with
around 81 per minute and around 50 shots per minute. This is because the pace starts of quite slowly, then
builds up and increases rapidly for the chorus. The shots vary from very quick shots to longer shots, such as
zooming or panning to tell the audience what someone in the audience is doing or thinking. I really like how the
shots vary length and I think that the music and visuals do match as the editing has a quick pace which links in
with the pace of the music.