Music video final idea

How to: Analyse

There are many elements to look for when analysing a music video.

The main 4 are: Camera, Editing, Mise en Scene and Sound

Camera - The elements of camera work that are important to us are the angle it is shot at and the movement of the camera during it. The angle of the shot is important as many different angles represent different things, for example a close up normally gives us a good representation of emotions within the music video. A establishing shot is usually to show a large area that is being used in the video to give us a perspective of where everything is. 

Editing - The pace of editing is very important in different music videos depending on the style. A narrative style music video will have fast paced editing to keep the audience entertained and the music video flowing. Slow paced editing would more commonly be used in a performance style music video to give the audience the feeling of actually being at the performance giving a less disjointed feel.

Mise en Scene - This is important when looking at the representation of the people in the music video. Are they stereotypical? Or do they break the stereotype? Costumes are very important when it comes to representation. In the rap genre girls are usually scantily clad and men are commonly represented as pimps - very rich, very well dressed and have women littered around them. 

Sound - Although most of the sound comes from the sound track of the song, in a performance style video you will quite often have the music coming from the actual video and not overlaid in post production. Also you will have the diagetic sounds of the screaming fans. Lip sync is very important for the video to flow efficiently, if the words do not match what the person is saying on screen then it makes the video look badly edited and cheap. 

Analysis

This video for Foo Fighters "learn to fly" has a great array of all aspects to pick up on whilst analysing.
Example:
Mise-en-scene
The theme of this video is a plane journey in which the pilots are drugged and fall asleep and the members of the band have to take control of the plane and land it safely. Because of this it is obvious that they use typical plane dress as pilots and as air stewards. The set used utilises the look of the inside of a plane which works well as its set on a plane. All the pieces of set and props work very well in the video.