Analyzing Music Videos #2

Learning to study and analyze music videos have opened my eyes tremendously. It is very interesting and  different to me in every way. Its really intriguing  to actually learn how to catch the hidden meanings  and to be able to dissect all these music videos, just by watching them.So far from this analyzing chapter we learned about the auteur ,the diegesis, the focus , the mise -en- scene , the flashback/flash forward , genres and the editing of videos.

 All of us were taught how to spot these terms in all different kinds of videos. The song and video that I picked and enjoyed doing was Mockingbird by Eminem. This video had many great flashbacks because it told /showed videos and pictures of him and his kids from his past life. The song Adams by Blink 182 the Diegesis of the video seemed to be is that someone died and most likely committed suicide because he was very depressed and angry. The Auteur of the video 100 Years by Five For Fighting is Trey Fanjoy. He is a very successful director ,Directing music videos for names such as Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, and many more. The genre for the music video Sail by Awolnation is narrative. The music video tells the story of a man being chased by something. An example of where a focus shot or an editing scene can be seen, is in the Music video Swimming Pools by Kendrick Lamar. Its when Kendrick Lamar is falling through space with a bottle in his hand.The presentation that was presented showed the mise-en-scene very well was Fragile by Tech N9ne ft Kendick Lamar. This video you could tell that is was just telling the story of a student at a new school, and of course a lot of the time the new kid seems to get picked on so hes fragile.

Being taught all these terms and being able to depict them in music videos is really awesome and is exciting to me, because I have always loved music. And I know all these things that I have learned definitely will help me in the future.