The document analyzes the music video for "Prayer in C" by Lilly Wood & The Prick featuring Robin Schulz. It discusses several key features of music videos including demonstrating genre characteristics, relating lyrics to visuals, focusing on the artist, and technical aspects. The video illustrates the upbeat electronic dance music genre through colorful costumes and a carefree atmosphere at a festival. It also relates some lyrics to images while ignoring the deeper religious meaning of the song.

1. MUSIC
VIDEO
ANALYSIS
Hyperlink: LillyWood &The Prick - Prayer in C

2. ANDREW GOODWIN
OVERVIEW6 features of a music video:
1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics
2. There are relationships between lyrics and visuals.The lyrics are
represented with images.
3. There is a relationship between the music and the visuals.The tone and
atmosphere of the visual reflects that of the music.
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups
of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their
work (a visual style)
5. The frequently reference to notion of looking and particularly voyeuristic
treatment of the female body.
6. There are often intertextual references

3. 1: MUSIC VIDEOS DEMONSTRATE GENRE
CHARACTERISTICS
As electronic dance music is largely produced for nightclubs, raves and festivals, the
music videos are generally based around these areas. In this music video, the actors
and actresses are dressed in bright, colourful clothing and face paint that would seem
appropriate for a festival.The light-hearted, carefree feel to the song and music video
demonstrates the genre characteristics of carefree, cheerful vibes.
LILLY WOOD & THE PRICK AND ROBIN SCHULZ -
PRAYER IN C (ROBIN SCHULZ REMIX)

4. THERE ARE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
LYRICS AND VISUALS. THE LYRICS ARE
REPRESENTED WITH IMAGES.
It is generally understood that these lyrics being vocalised by someone who is
speaking to God and the person is against following the rules that religion might
suggest due to the suffering of the world.This therefore connotes a sense of
freedom which is shown through the visuals of the music video.The female in the
beginning has a clean face and by the end she has a full painted Dia de Los meurtos
face.All of the characters in the video appear to embrace their free spirits and live
life without rules, which could be how a believer would describe a non believer as
suggested in the lyrics.

5. THE DEMANDS OF THE RECORD LABEL
WILL INCLUDE THE NEED FOR LOTS OF
CLOSE UPS OF THE ARTIST AND THE
ARTIST MAY DEVELOP MOTIFS WHICH
RECUR ACROSS THEIR WORK (A VISUAL
STYLE)
The artists are not featured singing in this music video however they are portrayed as
characters in the story of the video.There are multiple close ups of LillyWood’s face
before and after it is pained, yet it is not the main feature of the video. Instead, there
are many people in crowds.

6. THE FREQUENTLY REFERENCE TO NOTION
OF LOOKING AND PARTICULARLY
VOYEURISTIC TREATMENT OF THE
FEMALE BODY.
There are several shots of the female body in small amounts of clothing.
Secondarily, most of the opening shots are of the female protagonist looking
at herself in a mirror and we also see close ups of what she sees of herself.
There are also a few shots of men looking at women at what seems to be a
party or a festival type occasion.

7. 5 Ways to Analyse a MusicVideo
1.Thoughts beats – where you ‘see’ the sound
Step 1.To look at the music itself. We must take into account the structure of the song.
Step 2.The voice of the song. Unique and can form identification.
Step 3. Artist’s mode of address. Songs can be seen as stories and the artist the storyteller, making the music
video a two communication device – them telling us a story and we listen.
2. Narrative and Performance
Songs fail to give us the whole narrative – we get a gist of the meaning and we add our own meanings to it
and music videos should ignore common narrative. Music videos should have coherent repeatability. The
artist acting both as narrator and participant helps to increase the authenticity however the lip sync and
other mimed actions remains the heart of the music videos.
3.The star image
The star image is a vital aspect. Meta narrative which is big story that describes the development of the star
over time has an important part to play in the music video production process. How is the star represented?
4. Relation of visuals to song
There are three ways in which music videos work to promote a song:
Illustrate – use of a set of images to illustrate the meaning of lyrics and genre
Amplify – meanings and effects are manipulated and constantly shown through the video and drummed
into our vision
Disjuncture – this is where the meaning of the song is completely ignored
5.Technical aspects of a music video
Mise-en-scene, sound, cinematography and editing and beats

8. 1. THOUGHTS BEATS – WHERE YOU
‘SEE’ THE SOUND
This song can be seen as a story and the artists are part of this story as they are
featured ‘taking part’ in the activates of the rest of the characters and we watch them
whilst we listen to them.
2. NARRATIVE AND PERFORMANCE
The lyrics of Prayer in C fails to give us the whole narrative and meaning of the song.The
music video adds a whole new level of meaning to the song and the character’s
performance is what enhances this.The narrative is slightly unclear, however the viewer
gets a very clear view of the message that the video puts across/The artist acting both as
narrator and participant helps to increase the authenticity.

9. 3. THE STAR IMAGE
The ‘stars’ (LillyWood andThe Prick) are represented to be young, reckless and carefree in a world where
the laws are meant to be broken.This conforms to some stereotypes that might suggest that teenagers
adopt these rebellious characterises.The lyrics of the song, however, relate to a deeper meaning which is
not directly touched upon in the visuals.
4. RELATION OF VISUALS TO SONG
• Illustrate – use of a set of images to illustrate the meaning of lyrics and genre
The video illustrates the upbeat conventions of the genre and elements of the lyrics, such as
the sense of rebellion in the lyrics such as ‘See, our world is slowly dying I'm not wasting no
more time’.
• Disjuncture – this is where the meaning of the song is completely ignored
There are element of disjuncture in this video as there are no religious elements relating to
God.

10. 5. TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF
A MUSIC VIDEO
• Mise-en scene: the costumes of the characters are very vibrant and colourful,
which fits with their colourful face-make up. this, like most aspects of the
video, connotes to a sense of freedom and rebellion.The character’s props,
such as flags, skateboards, bikes and flower garlands all connote to these
elements too.The locations are mainly based in the streets and later in the
video there is a party in a single location.
• Editing: some of the editing is dependent of the beat of the song as cuts are made
as the beat is set.