The video analysis summarizes two music videos: 1) "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim, featuring Christopher Walken dancing elaborately through an empty hotel set to the song. Special effects are used to show him flying through scenes. 2) "Warriors Dance" by The Prodigy, where cigarette packets come to life and start a fire at a party to symbolize the destructive effects of smoking. They then leave the burning building. Both videos use creative camera angles and shots to enhance the dance routines and themes of destruction/rebirth.

1. Video analysis

2. Fatboy slim – weapon of choice: Featuring the actor
Christopher Walken.
 The opening scene is a man sitting
in a chair in an empty hotel looking
quite ordinary, listening to music.
Then he starts to dance which you
would not expect. He then dances
around the hotel and up and down
the escalators, on top of tables. The
dance routine uses all aspects of
the hotel. Then he is seen flying
over a balcony and around the foyer
of the hotel, and suspended in front
of a large boat scene picture. The
end of the video he calmly sits back
down in his original chair as if he

3.  Camera shots
 Most of the camera angles are mainly
long shots of the actor dancing to
emphasize the emptiness of the hotel.
The beginning of the video features
medium and close up shots taken in the
actor’s slightly bored expression, a quick
shot to a discarded laundry trolley. Then
the actor stands up and everything
becomes more animated where the actor
starts to dance to the music. The camera
then follows this actor and his dance
routine using all aspects of the empty
hotel with the music in line with his every
movement. The dance routine includes an
escalator and the use of a low angle shot
which looks up the escalator with the
ceiling above giving a sense of height
which finishes with a close up shot as the
actor runs down the escalator towards the

4.  There is a section of the video where special effects are
introduced, the actor fly’s over a balcony and a high angle
shot is used for this. The audience is looking down on the
actor flying around the hotel which is known as a birds eye
shot. The camera pans from left to right as the character is
flying with some close up shots to show his facial
expressions. The actor is suspended in front of a large
picture. The long shot emphasizes the largeness of the
picture. The actor fits him self into the picture so it looks
like he is flying out of the picture. The ending of the video
is the same as the beginning with him sitting in the chair
looking bored. The lighting through out this video is quite
subdued which gives the audience the impression of night
time. The ceilings with spot lights which reflect off the hotel
floor with some rooms being quite dark with the only
lighting being the odd table lamp. There is one scene
where there is more light used and the actor is dancing on
the table where he is illuminated by chandeliers and a lit
ceiling. This video one best Choreography and was filmed
live in LA.

5. Warriors dance- the prodigy
 The video begins with three empty cigarette
packets coming to life in the form of a person.
This automatically gives the audience the idea
that the video is weird, unexpected and
unusual. This is known as electronic shaman.
The band prodigy branded the three cigarette
packets with a name on each one making
them branded, the words say take me to the
hospital which is another one of prodigy’s
songs making the audience aware of some of
their other albums. This also puts across the
effects of smoking and why it is bad for your
health. This is also a good example of
advertisement. The packets are red in the
image of evil. The silhouettes made from the
packets are shown breaking an ash tray; this
shows the hatred of smoking and destructive

6.  Three figures start setting up a party and then music
kicks in. A quick shot of a juke box, lighting and a figure
dancing by a bottle of spirits (all components for a party).
A long shot of shelves containing boxes of cigarettes
with the brand tarmac, which is again a negative point of
smoking. The boxes then transform into people and they
start dancing with the use of an over head shot showing
all the figures dancing on the table, glamour versus
destruction. Then there is a pause and then the figures
look confused and one lone figure trails gasoline and
lights a line of fire through out the figures. Then every
thing erupts and music is at a pitch and the fire takes
over silhouetting the figures dancing in the fire. This is
quite symbolic cigarette packets burning as in burning
money. The final part of the video is of the three figures
looking back onto the table/bar and the destruction they
have caused. The three left leave the bar from under the
door and then moments later the owner of the bar walks

7.  Movement
1.Camera pans from right to left in each shot.
2.Zoom in and out for dramatic effect.
 Angle
1.Domination of the three characters over the
rest.
2.Fast rapid pace.
3.Fixated on the main three characters.
4.Quick camera shots to emphasise the points
being made.
 Sounds
1.The beginning of the video is off street sounds
such as cars going past so you wouldn’t
expect the discarded cigarette packets to come
to life.

8. Earth by Michael Jackson
 The theme of this music video is man’s
mismanagement of the Earth highlighting
environmental issues such as the deforestation of
the rainforest and the effect this has on the local
population. Animal welfare centered in Africa, the
poaching problems showing a graphic image of a
mutilated Elephant. Another topic is war and
destruction of the landscape and innocent people
dying. This video shows destruction and rebirth
and how man could put all these problems right.

9.  Camera shots
 The opening scene starts with the camera
panning through a tropical forest with a
worm’s eye shot to emphasize the sunlight
coming through the trees and the different
creatures. The next scene is a dark
landscape with a red sky showing
destruction and a long shot is used to show
the landscape this way. Then a close up
shot of an Elephant mutilated for ivory (a
shock tactic). Then close up shots are used
on peoples faces to show the horror of
what’s happening in their country. All
through the music video it is going back and
forth to scenes of destruction to scenes of
rebirth, comparing and contrasting. There is
a section which brings are attention to war
and a symbolic shot of a bicycle destroyed
and then it flips back to a happier time in the
past. The final section of this music video is
all about rebirth. The final section of this
video is all about rebirth. The characters all
looking upwards full of hope while
everything is going back to the happier