Music Video AnalysisA2 media project 2012/13

The Script – Hall Of Fame

• The first music video I shall be analyzing is The Script’s new music video, “Hall Of Fame” featuring will.i.am.

The Script – Hall Of Fame

• Above and below we see the two main characters of this music video sleeping and clearly dreaming of what they wish to be. Above we see a man who clearly wishes to be a professional boxer and is dreaming of a thought of him about to fight in a arena. Similarly, below is a girl dreaming of herself being a professional ballerina. The two characters both have a dream and thus the music video is about not giving up.

The Script – Hall Of Fame

• Above are the obstacles that the two main characters clearly have to face as a barrier of making their dream come true. The man’s mum is a smoker and so living in a household of a chain smoker can’t be healthy for the man himself. Whereas the girl is deaf (shown above is her ear piece) and so that is her obstacle which she has to face and therefore train around and try and ignore/deal with if she wants her dream to come true. Close up shots are used to focus on the obstacle that they have to face, thus making it easier for the audience to understand what difficulties and challenges they have to overcome.

The Script – Hall Of Fame• To the left are the two main characters

training to make their dream come true. Although they have difficulties they have to face, it still doesn’t stop them training to try and pursue in making their dream a reality. Here, two medium front on shots are used to give the audience the whole picture of the training and to show their focus and passion. Because for our music video we would like to do a music video about someone training to make their dream come true, the story line of this music video, “Hall Of Fame” almost matches perfectly to what we were planning on doing for our video. We shall use a variety of shots and backgrounds to show our character training in hard conditions to show our characters commitment and passion like the two characters shown in this music video.

The Script – Hall Of Fame

• In addition, shots of the band performing are used to give the audience an image of who is playing the song. This is done so that the bands style and image is shown to give the audience an understanding of what the band look like.

Gym Class Heroes – The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder

• The next video our group decided to look at for inspiration was The Gym Class Heroes new music video, “The Fighter” featuring Ryan Tedder.

Gym Class Heroes – The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder

• Shown above is 19 year old USA gymnast, John Orozco. He grew up in Bronx NY raised by two amazing Puerto Rican parents that did everything for him to make his dreams come true. You can see John featured through the whole video. He never gives up. The lyrics talk about you having to “get up if you fall.” His story about his life and how he got to where he did is a true inspiration and the music video for “The Fighter” is based about his story.

Gym Class Heroes – The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder

• Close ups of the training equipment used is shown to portray the commitment of the athlete and what he is doing. This camera work enables the audience to engage and understand what the athlete does to train.

Gym Class Heroes – The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder

• The establishing shot as shown above is certainly a shot that caught our groups attention instantly due to the interest it portrays. In addition, as well as being helpful for the audience in terms of conveying where the athlete trains, typography is used to give the precise location of the training facility too. An establishing shot similar to this one will certainly be seen in our music video to show the audience a location of one of our training scenes.

Gym Class Heroes – The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder

• Throughout the music video for, “The Fighter”, black and white shots are used to refer to the past when he was on his journey to reaching his dream of where he is now. The black and white effect works well and shows us how he got to where he is. The black and white effect is something we’ll definitely use in our music video to show how our character got to where he is by showing training clips and other clips which may have helped him reach his dream.

Gym Class Heroes – The Fighter ft. Ryan Tedder

• Similarly to the previous music video we looked at, “Hall Of Fame”, “The Fighter” also shows brief clips of the band performing to show the audience what the bands image is.

Foo Fighters – The Best Of You

• The next music video I am going to analyze will be the Foo Fighters classic song “The Best Of You”. The reason for this choice is that

Foo Fighters – The Best Of You

• The music video was directed by Mark Pellington, best known for his work on the video for "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam. He was inspired by the death of his wife a few months prior to the shoot, and was drawn to the song's notion of dealing with pain in life.

• The video features the band playing on top of abandoned hospital, Linda Vista Community Hospital. Along with the band's scenes are clips that show pain, depression, or anger as shown on the next slide I have done.

Foo Fighters – The Best Of You

•Clips with children playing alone or with each other, one scene shows one girl hugging another.•A car crash•A lion pouncing on its prey, which is a vulture•A snake attacks a rodent

•A zebra kicks another zebra behind itself•A nuclear explosion•A baby crying

Foo Fighters – The Best Of You

• Towards the end of the video when the song has more of a faster temp compared to the rest of the song. The clips shown speed up and the audience are shown about 30 different clips in a 30 second time period. This works well due to the fact that the clips shown are in time with the fast tempo of the music whilst also showing lots of clips relating to the theme and meaning of the lyrics.

Foo Fighters – The Best Of You

• The music video for this song is largely dominated with clips of the band, including the band playing on top of abandoned hospital, Linda Vista Community Hospital. In addition, the clips shown of the band aren’t always taken at the same time. For example, towards the beginning of the video shots of the band performing are taken in the day when the weather is calm with clear blue skies. Whereas towards the end of the video, the weather is more dusky as if the sun were setting towards the end of the day. This links with the time scale of the music video, the beginning of the song represents the beginning of the day and the end of the song represents the ending of the day,

50 Cent – In Da Club

• The next music video I shall look it will be 50 Cent’s music video “In Da Club” due to the genre of the song being similar to the genre we shall be looking at.

50 Cent – In Da Club• Phillip Atwell directed the music video on December 10–11, 2002. Almost all the film footage was

used in the video except for a scene where 50 Cent raps in a glass box.

• 50 Cent is introduced by hanging upside down from the roof of a gym. Atwell commented, "I think I could have done better with it, but I really liked the way that it turned out".

• The video ends with the camera zooming out of the club to reveal a two-way mirror with Eminem and Dr. Dre in white lab uniforms, observing 50 Cent and taking notes. Atwell stated that "seeing 50 with Dr. Dre and Eminem having his back is as big a visual statement as it is a musical statement" and the shot was significant because it made clear the club was inside the centre and not unrelated performance footage.

50 Cent – In Da Club

• Two shots which work well in my opinion is when shots are shown of people in a club. This is because it not only links to the title of the song, but visually the shots used are good. The shot on the left is used as an establishing shot when 50 cent first enters the club to show the audience what type of environment 50 cent is entering. Whereas the shot on the right is used to show 50 cent with girls and other rappers having a good time.

50 Cent – In Da Club

• Lots of shots of 50 cent performing are conveyed to the audience. Due to 50 Cents large popularity as a performer and rapper, audiences want to see 50 cent in his music videos performing. A large variety of this video is therefore based around showing 50 cent either in a club rapping with friends, or rapping in what appears to be a glass box. The music video works well for it’s genre as with hip hop and rap it is important to show the artist more than other genres of music.