Summer Project: coursework planning

 1) Research: Music videos


Watch the following music videos and analyse an aspect of media language for each one:

Music video 1: Marshmello x YUNGBLUD x blackbear - Tongue Tied

How is narrative used in this music video to engage the audience?

Right at the beginning they use dialog which is diegetic sounds to set the scene and mood for the rest of the music video and use the name " SCILENCERS " to make them seem like a power hungry and abusive police force to make them the villain of the music video and make the civilians look like the innocent people that have feel under rule of the police. The whole starting dialog pints the picture of whose good and whose not. This engages the audience as we wonder why they abuse power, why this is happening and how this situation is going to end. The phrase " one final push of unity could be the hope we all need " adds enigma codes as we wonder what is going to happen as it cuts to someone else, it also adds action codes as it hints at something happening. Someone starts running with a device in their hands and attempt to run away and this adds tension and engages the audience as it builds up all the initial questions and thoughts they had. After she got captured it cuts to this man helping her and taking off the metal plate on her mouth. We wonder who this was. The ending solves the dis- equilibrium and ends the narrative with the citizens triumphing over the police.

Music video 2: Years & Years - I Wish I Knew

How is camerawork and mise-en-scene used in this video? Use CLAMPS to remember the different aspects of mise-en-scene.

At the beginning of the music video and throughout it they consistently use a handheld camera, they keep the actors/singer in the centre of the screen (CLAMPS) and make them the main focus of the video and to make it a performance rather than a narrative ,like the pervious Tongue Tied music video. Even near the end, when there was confetti everywhere they still kept the one band members on the centre of the screen at all times, also they managed to keep them centralised even when they were getting close up shots of the instruments they were playing by keeping their hands or some part of their body on the screen to keep making the performance and song the main focus and to keep the other things like the confetti as a second focus. 

















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