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Ben Norris G324 textual analysis of past students

                                                              Ben Norris G324

This music video there is no lip syncing within the whole duration of the video. When it comes to the lyrics it says “Walking home” repetitively which goes with what is being displayed by the boy walking throughout in a forward direct towards somewhere. In this video it is the visual that reflects the story and what is happening. The video is a narrative as he tells the story of the song.

The music is just a track there is no other music or sounds added in or produced during the music is played. The music is just played alongside the visual video, which is a narrative video. The style of music would be classed as indie music this can be recognised by the style of clothing worn.

The camera shots are very unsteady which ruins the video as it is not effective as none of the shots are still. If some shots were unsteady for effect hen that would work well but not when all of the shots are unsteady. There are too many hand held shots as this is what makes it so shaky.  However, there is a vast amount of shots and there is a variety of them which makes it more interesting as an audience as there is different shots to comfort different visuals. There is a nice over the shoulder shot in this video which is done very well by the camera work. The shots don't really transition with the music and the cinematography doesn't reflect the tempo. 

There is a big negative throughout this video, which is that he walks away from the camera a lot. He is never facing the camera, which is most probably why he wasn’t able to lip sync, therefore was missing a crucial part of what it was meant to include. As well as this there was a lot of blurry shots which were just unneeded, they were unnecessary in this situation.

Editing, was done ok overall. It was the thing that brought the music video together, the colour palette at the beginning was used really well. There was a fade shot which wasn’t used in the best place it was out of place, it didn’t work very well. The editing wasn’t particularly in line with the narrative therefore making it not very effective, the editing didn’t match the narrative. However, it did match the tempo which was done to a good standard. There is a fade and dissolve which looks out of place.

Intertextuality was not shown hugely within this music video but it is shown when the boy, the actor, has his phone shown closely and shows his home screen which is a film poster background. This wouldn’t necessarily be picked up particularly well by a viewer or audience when watching or maybe watching the music video the first time round.

There was no close ups of the artist or singer. The main boy who was performing wasn’t shown close up or face on. If this was a mainstream music video then it’d have far more close ups or recognition of the artist, however in this video it doesn’t peruse the ‘mainstream’ vibe.

In this voyeurism isn’t really something like a sexual attraction etc. In this case it is more the fact that a teenage boy can relate to the boy in the music video as they may be able to have empathy for him and understand the song far better. This is also shown that a boy of a teenage age may be interested in this video or are drawn in as the camera shots are never too close to the male actor which could be related to by the fact males don’t particularly like being near anyone.

The representation of the main artist is that he is a middle class boy who is a student or of a teenage age. He feels useless and feels isolated which is shown throughout the visuals of the video. He is also of an English origin.

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