Music Video Analysis

Artist and Title	Visual	Pace
Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues (First music video 1965)	Bob Dylan in the side of the shot holding card board cue cards that relate to the song. Tramp in the background and in an ally way all gray.	Country, jolly music but the action is smooth.
Pharcyde Drop Directed: Spike Jonze	4 rappers walking, moving, jumping etc. in reverse so the movement is robotic. They had direct address rapping to camera and there were only 3/4 shots all together. When they jump on and off shot it looks like they are on a harness. The water is poured down in reality but in the video it looks like it is gravitating upwards giving a really cool effect.	Again smooth pace as it was tracking from in front shot. Although the lip synching didn’t really work at times, it didn’t matter as you were distracted by all the movement in the mise-en- scene.
OK Go (2006) Here it goes again Director: Trish Sie	8 Treadmills, the band are dancing on them jumping on and off. The mise-en-scene seems a little tacky and not perfect but it doesn’t matter too much because it is mainly focused on the action. The colours are simple.	Movement within the speed of the treadmill. They jump with the beat of the music
Metronomy (2011) The Bay Director: David Wilson	80s filmed, white stilettos and bathing suits. Was actually filmed in Torquay looks like the French Riviera. Framed by other scenes in the video. James Bond film.	The frame moves along to the beat of the song also with the split screen when it comes on and off. One point legs open up the screen as they are being closed.

Music Video Shot by Shot Analysis

Katy Perry -Thinking of you

So to get our music video minds working we did a shot by shot analysis of a music video of our choice. I did Katy Perry's 'Thinking Of You'
The amount of shots were crazy as you could imagine, with a music video directed by Melina Matsoukas.
Jess Work Katy Perry