Monday, 22 January 2018

Music Video Analysis

L/O: To apply media terminology when analysing music videos.

Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi
The narrative style of the video would include most of the characters skating or being on bmxi. Once they are in the street they are playing the music in the video.


Most of the camerawork in the video is handheld, even in scenes with shot types from lower or higher angles.


Most of the video is a performance based narrative that has Avril Lavigne singing throughout, the narrative is linear and follows the story of Avril performing songs in the street.


The sounds in the video are mostly diegetic, the song is being performed by Avril in the video, suggesting that it is diegetic, the helicopter at the end is also diegetic.


Avril and her people are dressed like the edgy youth of the time. The objects in the scenes are styled towards what you would see in a punk rock music video.


There is lots of fast-paced editing that cuts from scene to scene and from person to person within seconds.

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
The narrative style is linear and has characters that perform and characters that show the story.

The camerawork is much more professional and uses more smooth angles of the camera and better movement.

The sounds in the video are mostly diegetic at the end of it, but throughout there is mostly just the music.

The clothing and mise en scene is standard american high school items that you would expect from the styles of the characters.


The editing is much more smooth and timed specifically for the song to work with the video.

The characters throughout are based off of high school stereotypes that fit the video correctly and help to tell the story.

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