Update.

Helloooooo!

Just a general update. We haven't yet had a reply from the band that we emailed, but we're going to try again and also email someone new.

This week we've been researching the history of the music video, which we will write up in a new blog post within the next couple of days!

Yesterday, us three were given the 'Chasing Cars' video by Snow Patrol to analyse. For any of you that know the video well, you'll realise that not much goes on and it's very difficult to point out specific examples when doing a textual analysis.

In our textual analysis we were asked to include:
a) genre characteristics
b) The relationship between lyrics and visuals
c) The relationship between music and visuals
d) Whether there are any close-ups of the artist and star image motifs
e) Any references to the notion of looking (including voyeurism)
f) Whether there are any intertextual references
g) Whether the video is performance-, narrative- orconcept- based and how much of each is present.

The results for the 'Chasing Cars' video was as follows:
Genre characteristics- Male vocalist. You can hear the guitars but you never see them (typical to some 'pop rock' videos.
The relationship between lyrics and visuals- He lies down at the beginning of the chorus, "If I lay here..."
The relationship between music and visuals- Slow music works well with the slow editing.
The close-ups of the artist and star image motifs- At the beginning of the video, the opening shots are all close-ups.
References to the notion of looking- The video is not sexual, however the close-ups on the vocalists hands and feet are oddly attractive.
Intertextual references- None in this particular version of the video, however the version used for Grey's Anatomy features clips from the final series.
Performance-, narrative- or concept-based- It is mainly performance based as there is no underlying story line. However, some of it depends on the type of concept you as an individual understands and relates to the video.


We understand that once we have produced our music video, we each will have to write a textual analysis on it. We hope this looks like good practice!! (:

Liv, Rache and Mike xxxxx