

This can be shown in David bowie's 'China Girl' as the afore mentioned girl is shown with Bowie in the video. This is ususally becasuse many songs have a narrative in them, music videos include the lyrics by having a relationship the lyrics and the visuals Good relationships with the lyrics and visuals and there were close-ups of theĪrtist - in this case, the characters in the narrative- singing.Īnalysing other student music videos will help us to understand what to do and what not to do. Treatment of the female body, good relationships with the music an visuals, To analyse this using Goodwin's theory, I can tell you that there was not To add in some of those extra shots I mentioned before. In an artistic way of a time lapse of the beach, they could have used that time This was not needed and although it was done Shaky at times but all in all it was pretty god for the music video. The camera work was pretty good, some shots had bad framing and was a little Used in the flashback shots and black and white clothes were used in the other The use of costume works well with this also as colourful clothing was Lighting of the flashback shots, connoting how the flashbacks were happier Lighting in the gloomier scenes created a wonderful contrast of the high key The mise en scene within the music video was good as the naturalistic That this was really effective and it also was in time with the music. Shown as the camera panned round them jumping from person to person.

A brilliant use of cuts where the two characters were Overlapping too much which made the video hard to watch as you were seeing Included cuts and fades, however I felt that some of the fades, were Transitions were used in the way a generic music video would have them, they That the audience would have gained more attachment to the couple in the video If they had a shot or two that would of explained this, I feel The audience have no clue on how they got this Had some shots which would have explained their current situation as it onlyĬontained shots of them in the present where they are all gloomy and shots of This music video has a narrative about a couple, I feel that they could of A good representation of this is All time low's music videoįrom looking at these codes of convention, I shall make sure that for my music video I have at least five of the seven codes in it to achieve the best grade possible. This can be shown by paying homage and recreating it or even having clips of the reference in the music video. This is where a music video will have a reference to another music video, film or television show. a video showing this is Robbie Williams' Radioħ.

this could be from being scantily clad, or shots in the music video emphasizing certain body parts on ladies. This is where artists have people in their music video, which are usually feamale and sometimes the artist themselves and are shown in a provocative way.

Gorrillaz do this well as they have cartoon 'alter-egos' of themselves in many of their music videos.Ħ.Frequent reference to the treatment of the female body. 5.Iconography and motifs are used in the music video that appear in the artists other videos.
