Friday, 12 July 2013

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.

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