Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Research into existing music videos 'Younger' (Professional)

This video is a narrative based video in which the lead singer of the band plays a character who starts off as a very normal seeming character and then progresses to become more of a disturbing character as the narrative progresses. The video shows him attending some sort of inspirational speaker in a street garage and the main character is shown to question what he is saying which seems to irk the audience and they kick him out, he then goes to retrieve a gun and threatens the speaker and gathers the audience around him before kissing a girl who slaps him. The video then progresses to him having tied up the audience and threatening them with a gun and seeming to breakdown into insanity.
The video has a very urban setting to start with, with abstract themes throughout the video, the mise-en scene then changes to what seems to be a warehouse, with low key lighting, the scene inside the warehouse has individual lights shining on different people leaving the background in darkness, the lighting has a blue tint to it, giving a very obscure feel to the entire scene, however there is individual yellow spotlights in the background that seem to have no impact on the actual lighting of the scene.

Mid way through the video the music pauses and shows a scene of the main character being chased by the crowd and then chasing the crowd in and out of shot, adding to the narrative, using a drone sound over the top with the screen dimming and brightening, showing a progression in the plot and then fading into the next scene.

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