Media analyse of music video
The music video I have chosen to analyse is ‘Almost Lover’ by ‘a fine Frenzy’.
My reason for picking this music video is because the song is of a lost love, a love that could have been but never was, this is similar to the song we have chosen to make a music video on, we have interpreted our song as a love song, a song about memories of a better time in the relationship.
The genre of the song is a love song. The video is typical of its genre. It shows to people, male and female, and us as the audience get to see their relationship from a third person, often first person due to the way it is shot.
Its narrative is split; we have what is perceived as the present, where the female is standing in a house singing. We then have the past where we see the relationship.
Some of the past shots are in first person where the male has recorded the girl himself.
The visuals do not amplify what the lyrics say here. It takes the overall meaning and feel from the words and represents them in a similar mode in mind. There is very little literal visual representation of the words here.
The artist is in above 90% of the time in this video, there is very little focus on the male.
There is no obvious intertextuality. It is typical of a love story. It is peacefully shot, romantic. It doesn’t have explosions or guns, because that is not typical of it’s genre. So it could be said that it is intertextualising romance films in the way it is shot and what is in the frame.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HCeS-yorGtc
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