An analysis of 4 music videos across different genres of music.

1. Video Camera
Angles
Mise en
Scene
Sound Editing Theory
Twenty One Pilots
– Car Radio
(performance)
-Lots of extreme close
ups
-Handheld camera
-Mid shots
-Wide shots
-Bathroom sink, shaving
head -> vulnerable?
-Switches to stage
performance
-Singer wearing
signature balaclava,
easily recognisable
-Only non-diegetic sound
of the music track
-Cutaways from
performance to audience
-Ellipsis is used to
compress the time taken
for the singer to shave
his head
-Special effects; broken
tv effect
Enter Shikari –
Arguing With
Thermometers
(performance)
-Mid shots when
presenting
-More handheld and
close up; more hectic
as video progresses
-Wide shot of band
performing, low angle
and handheld
-Mid shots also when
performing
-American news channel
aesthetic; suits, cameras,
weather reports,
interviews
-Performance by
roadside, singer still in
costume, other
members wearing
normal clothes
-Starts with news
channel theme and
announcer and sounds
from different rooms
(ambient, diegetic)
-Music track (non-diegetic)
- Ends with dialogue
from news anchor (band
singer) (diegetic)
-Lots of quick cuts; flows
with hectic action in
video
-Switching tv channels
effect
-Slow motion in some
instances
Fall Out Boy –
Sugar We’re Goin’
Down
(performance +
narrative)
-Band; wide shot, mid
shot, close up
-Narrative; over-shoulder,
mid shot,
handheld, close up,
long shot,
-Protagonist has antlers,
makes him different
-Set in American
mountain town
-Stereotypical love story,
boy, girl, and girl’s father
-Video opens with
ambient, diegetic sounds
of birds tweeting
-Non-diegetic music
track
-Cuts between
performance and
narrative
-Cuts between different
distances of the same
shot
Skrillex & Damien
‘Jr. Gong’ Marley –
Make It Bun Dem
(narrative)
-Frequent mid-shots,
shows body language
-Close-ups show
emotion, strong use in
video
-Suburban American
town
-Police eviction; uniforms
-Native American (father
and son); clothing,
activities e.g. raindance
-Only non-diegetic sound
of the music track
-All in slow motion,
except for small motions
accentuated with normal
speed near end
-Cuts between main
actions of police and
father and son