Eg Video 7: Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work Video Analysis

Artist: Two Door Cinema Club
Song: Something Good Can Work
Director: ?
Genre: Indie Rock
Year: 2009
Audience: 14-25




This video shows a good example of interesting camera work and a discontinuity style of editing with interesting transitions and show types and angles. There are a lot of point of view shots and shots taken under the water as if the camera is strapped to the person in the video.  

The video also feature performance footage of the band walking through the street and the transitions make this video run smoothly. There are a lot of different locations and camera angles. A slightly high angle is used to good effect above performance footage and is made purposefully shaky which fit with the style of the song. 

The main challenge if we where going to re create something like this in our coursework would be to get the different locations, however I think the editing and cinematography is very effective in this video.

Eg Video 6: Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag Video Analysis

Artist: Wheatus
Song: Teenage Dirtbag
Dierector: ?
Genre: Rock
Year: 2000

The songs narrative is a guy who falls asleep whilst doing homework and has a dream, which ties into the lyrics at the start. The song is part of the soundtrack to the film Loser. The video follows a stereotypical highschool student in America. 

The narrative is about him trying to attract the attention of a girl in the school but struggling because he is a 'loser'. It features performance footage of the band playing in the gym. He eventually gets the girl at a dance but then wakes up from the dream just as the disco ball is about to land on his head. 

Lots of videos use a school as a background to there videos playing on student stereotypes and is also a realistic idea we look into as it's an accessible location. The video is pretty fast paced and there is diegetic sound included in the video as well as point of view shots and high angles. 

Eg Video 5: Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly Video Analysis

Artist: Foo Fighters
Song: Learn To Fly
Director: Jesse Peretz
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 1999

The music video is a comedy about two airline staff (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) who smuggle drugs onto the plane through the coffee machine which ends up intoxicating everyone who drinks it. The Foo fighters themselves play many different characters on the plane which adds to the comedy effect.
There is diegetic sound at the start of the video which then kicks into the song playing. The editing is fairly fast paced and there is quite a bit of action going on. There is occasional performance footage played through television screens on the plane. As everyone apart from the band members drink the coffee it is left up to them to take control of the plane as all the pilots have gone crazy due to the drugs. 

The video has intertexualitity to the film Airplane! A comedy set on an Airplane which has a similar plot. The premise of smuggling drugs into airplane coffee is very similar to an actual smuggling operation that was uncovered in 1997 just before the video was made. The video also won a Grammy in 2001 for best short form music video. The comedy music video works well and the idea of using band members for multiple roles in the video is a good one. 

Eg: Video 4: Ok Go - Needing/Getting Video Analysis

Artist: Ok Go
Song: Needing/Getting
Director: Brian L. Perkins
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2009

This video from Ok Go is another one of their popular videos. It features the band driving in a car over two miles of road using over 1000 instruments. It's a very unique style of performance the video doesn't have any narrative however the it's very well done and very inventive and catchy. It has high re play value due to the interesting way it's made. It features all diegetic sound played by the car driving down the road striking instruments as it goes past. There is performance footage from inside the car as the singer is driving. The video was endorsed by Chevrolet to provide the car featured in the video customized with various microphones attached to it.  


The idea for the video was inspired by the Rube Goldberg video version of "This Too Shall Pass"; in that video, some of the props of the Rube Goldberg machine had played a melody in time with the music. The lead singer was trained in stunt driving to be able to do the video whilst singing at the same time. Overall it's a very creative video and takes the idea of things in the video featuring in the song to a whole new level. 

Without any narrative it would be hard to keep the audiences interest however I believe this video has great repeat viewing appeal and we could use some of these ideas within our own coursework. Ok Go the band themselves have made lots of famous music videos including 'here it goes again' and 'this too shall pass' as mentioned earlier.

Class Vid - Mine, Sean and Andy's Edit

 We Used Final Cut to edit, all the footage was gatherd in one day. Thanks to Sam Daffern for the car, he is sadly no longer with us.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Give It Away - Class vid pitch

My idea was for the class video was for give it away playing on the idea of walking around giving away sweets or other things to people whilst the band walks around. There would have to be dancing and movements fitting with the funky style of the song. It should be quite entertaining walking up to random people whilst playing instruments and lip syncing. We could get instruments from music room such as guitars and drums. Further developed idea could be giving out sweets which when people eat them they break out into dancing.

Eg Video 3: Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way Video Analysis

Artist: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Song: By The Way
Director:  Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2002

The video starts out with an establishing shot focusing on the street name and a medium shot of the lead singer waiting for a cab. There's also an interesting shot which looks like the cameras been placed on top of the cab almost like a point of view shot. The video then cuts to a performance shot of the whole band in a dark room for the opening lyrics. It then cuts back into the cab where the driver puts on a CD by the Red hot chilli peppers and starts to sing along, the camera work throughout is very shaky to simulate the cab on the bumpy road.

 As the chorus kicks in it cuts back to the performance scene with a sequence of medium shots of different band member with again shaky camera as if an earthquake style effect has been used. It then cuts back to inside the cab where the driver puts his foot on the accelerator and speeds up in time with the increased tempo of the music. As the driver starts driving recklessly swerving to dodge cars, the lead singer in the car starts to look increasingly worried. The driver then locks the doors so he can't escape. The video cuts between performance and the narrative all the way through. 

As the song enters the breakdown the cab driver backs up into a dark tunnel and starts playing with fireworks dancing along to the song. The singer sends a message to the other band members sitting outside a cafe saying he's been kidnapped. His fellow band members start following the taxi which has started driving on the pavement. We see a long shot of the  two cars which end up side by side. The lead singer breaks through the window and jumps into the jeep with the  other band members. At the end the singer and the two guitarists drive away. The final shot shows the cab pulling up to give the drummer a ride.