Other student’s music video

Other student’s music video

Media Studies A2- Music Video (Full Marks A Grade)
Stuck by Canopy Climbers

Mise en scene – I like the locations used in the video, the field is good because it shows that it’s a place where the characters go to think and reflect on their actions and it’s a good way to begin a video with an establishing shot because it sets the scene for the video but also is a good location to have for establishing shots. Another thing to notice about the characters is that they are mostly wearing black, this could signify that they all have a dark secret that they are trying to keep secret and that they are in fear of each other through the use of the colour black. The music videos aesthetic overall is fairly dark and suggests that it has a dark meaning and that the things being done in the music video are dark and disturbing.

 For camera angles, there seems to be a lot of close up shots of the different characters faces, this could be used to signify their emotions because this music video is heavily filled with emotional scenes and ideas about how emotions effect your actions. I think it’s also being used to show us which characters emotions are more important and which ones need to be looked at more because they have more relevance to the story. I also like the establishing shots of the field with the trees and the sunset in the background, this could be used to set the scene of where the characters go to get away from everyone else or to have fun. It could also be used to show a period of time going by which has connections to the person’s emotions because as the time goes by, the persons emotions begin to develop about the situation and eventually they come to realise what they have done and why they shouldn’t have done it.

The narrative is fairly clear, it seems like the two character who are friends have attacked the other person for no apparent reason and they seem to have done it because they seem like they cause trouble already through the fact that they are doing graffiti on walls and just generally causing trouble. It looks as if they are becoming increasingly guilty with their actions over the course of the music video and the character who was attacked is training to increase his strength because he doesn’t want to end up in the same situation and be defenceless again. You can see that the boys are guilty for their actions through the lyrics ‘I never wanted this at all’ this shows their remorse and guilt for their actions. Another point for this is when the song says ‘another drink of something that will kill the memories’ this is showing that he is having to drink alcohol in order to get rid of the memories he has of what he did which shows how guilty he is of the whole ordeal.

Overall I think there are a lot of things that went well with this music video, I think the camera angles were brilliant and they pieced very well with the song and the editing was good because the scenes were the right length and I liked how smooth it flowed throughout the music video.

One thing I can take from this video is how clear the narrative is in this video along with how good the editing and camera angles are. The angles work really well with the narrative such as the close ups of the characters faces to show their emotion in terms of the situation they have got themselves in and I like how well it links.