Textual analysis of music video 3

Name of artist: The Amity Affliction
Name of song: Chasing ghosts

Genre Characteristics.

1. -Dark lonely woods, the feeling of emptiness, with only two men.
2. -Suicide, The point of the video is a man preventing suicide of a himself.
3. -Ghosts, It shows the man following a ghost to save himself.
4. -The band clothing is a genre characteristic, mainly on the lead singer  

Relationship Between Lyrics And Visuals

1. -The lyrics are about a man who regrets taking the easy way out, such as suicide. The video links up to that as it shows a man being haunted by a woman as he chases himself down to stop himself hanging himself
2. -The song is called chasing ghosts, and he is chasing a female ghost who also committed suicide.

Relationship Between Music And Visuals

1. -Follows genre convention. Creepy woods a dark shack, a ghost and a prevention of hanging/suicide. These are all genre conventions of hardcore/metal-core and the genre is mainly about prevention of these kind of things.

Inter textual Reference

1. -Titled 'Chasing Ghosts' and the music video shows a man chasing a ghost, simple really?
2. -The twist is that he was chasing himself, as he regretted what he did. so he saved himself

The video was a mix of performance based and story line based, it showed the story of the man chasing his ghost and the band performing the song, whilst i personally found the performance a bit distracting as i was interested in the story, i shall keep this in mind when i film my music video presentation.

Textual analysis of music video 2

Name of artist: Disturbed
Name of song: Asylum

Genre Characteristics

1. -Darkness, the emptiness of the asylum represents insanity 
2. -Torture- the feeling of everyone against you
3. -Feeling or being repressed 
4. -Insanity 

Relationship Between Lyrics And Visuals 

1. -Singing about not wanting to die in an asylum while the visuals show his journey of escape 
2. -singing about insanity, the main character is classed as mentally insane 

Relationship Between Music And Visuals 

1.  -Follows genre convention of dark asylum, the feeling of emptiness or being alone has ravished this persons mind 

Inter textual References

1. -Titled asylum it follows the definition of insanity 
2. -''Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome'' 
3. -The character continuously tries to escape the asylum but always gets put back in his cell

This video is mainly story based as it focuses on the guy who tries to escape the asylum but it keeps with in the genre limitations and in-keeps withing the story of the song as they link together    

Textual analysis of music video

Name of track: Castle of Glass
Artist/director: Linkin Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNNfyq3d_w

Genre Characteristics: 

1. -Sadness of the boy as he learns to deal with death of father  
2. -House falling apart, shows it as his world crumbles
3. -Depressed vibe around, everyone feeling it 
4. -Typical american setting, suburban    

Relationship Between Lyrics And Visuals 

1. -Sadness is a recurring theme between the lyrics and the video, the song sings about being broken while the boy shows that he is.
2. -Relation to the game 'Medal Of Honor' showing what the father did and how he died 
3. -Tells us how the boy feels and shows his reaction 

Relationship Between Music And Visuals 

1. -fast paced throughout, going along with the visuals 
2. -slows down with the visuals, the begging both music and images are slow
3. slow during suicide, fast during end

Close ups of artists and star image mortifs?

1. -close up of the vocalist
2. -The vocalist is the main character, connects the story with the band

Intertextual Refrences

1. -Suicide & Death
2. -Feelings related to it  
3. Inner message, trying to prevent people from suicide as it shows how it affects others
4. Speech from lead vocalist explainging past experiences and hotline

Performance based or concept based?

1. -Both it shows the band playing to the death and the singers reaction so two in one really