Charlotte Hatherley - Bastardo analysis

Intertextuality - comic book pictures, perhaps reflecting a comic book for women.

Hyper reality - Talking comics, over exaggerated

 Notions of looking/voyeurism- frames around the pictures

 In this video instead of playing out the story they used stills which then moved and lip synced the lyrics. Each chorus is repeated to a new person - on the phone to a friend, to the camera.

Audience- mid 20's - 30's 

Prodigy - Firestarter

Below is the Prodigy's video of 'Firestarter'. I analyzed the video picking out a shot for each: 

-Music linking to video

-Lyrics linking to video

-Genre linking to video

and the close ups linking to the video. 

PRODIGY - FIRESTARTER

In the  still shot above, he was jumping up and down to the beat which links the music to the video. Throughout the video he is lip syncing to the video. The lighting also links into the beat o the music. Low key lighting

CU of the lead character gives us an image to associate with the band. The lead character has his hair spiked up at the corners. This makes the character look devil like with devil horns. 

'Twisted animator' and 'twisted fire starter' are used in the lyrics, and as he says 'twisted', in the shot above, he points to his head to say as if he was twisted in the head/mentally ill. 

The 4 shots above were edited to be fast and edgy. This reinforces the genre of punk, and dance. Therefore i would genre this video as dance-punk. 

Angry voice, aggressive. Anarchist who breaks the rules/criminal activity. 

Rebellious nature - REBEL!

The Avalanches - 'Frontier Psychiatrist'

Could use old people because of old people having dementure, and mental illnesses.

There is a sepia filter over the video making it look vintage.

Here is the music video we analyzed.

THE AVALANCHES - FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST

(granny on drums) You can see and hear her playing the drums which links the video and music.

(teeth) The lyrics say 'and he made false teeth', and then a clip of false teeth are shown which links the video to the lyrics.

(skeleton) CU of skeleton, this can show image of the band being alternative

(old man pointing) A gangster pose reinforcing the genre of hip hop

(turtle man) CU can represent image of band being alternative

(man on keyboard) This links the video to the music, and also gives the genre of electronic

(man on a therapy chair) The lyrics say "lie down on the couch" and then there is a clip of a man lying down on a couch

(men playing instruments) the sound of the instrument is focused on when the video links with the music

Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever analysis

The msuic video contains childish concepts such as people dresses as animals. Taylor Swift is also dressed in her pyjamas which portrays her in a more childish form compared to if she was dressed formally.

The story has a narrative, you see her and her boyfriend breaking up, having arguments and she is also singing about never getting back together with him (perhaps cause of the scenes in the video) There is also a certain degree of hyper reality as she is singing in most of the scenes and in real life they wouldnt be singing.

Katy Perry - Wide Awake analysis

Katy Perry- Wide Awake

The visuals link to the music. She sings 'Im falling from could nine', and at the beginning of the music video she was lying on a pink cloud, and the atmosphere then became dark.

In the video there were some non direct links to fairy tales. Alice in Wonderland and  Snow white were two that i picked up on.

 Snow white and the apple, the maze to the queen of hearts...

Visual style is expressed through Katy Perrys make up and dress code. We can see this throughout the video. She tends to wear bold and dark lipsticks, and eye make up. 

There are hyper real experiences, (ie wall being broken, floor caving in, visual effects) 

At the beginning there is voyuerism when the film crew are watching Katy Perry through the filming screen. An over the shoulder shot is used to create this frame.