The first music video that I’m analysing is Bob Dylan’s “Tangled up in blue.” The entire song was shot in close up showing Bob Dylan singing at a microphone and we can see that he is wearing a Stetson styled hat and the harmonica that he plays to words the end of the song. The lyrics and the music don’t relate to the song as it is solely a performance video, shot at a live show, it is just done in the one shot, which moves to keep the his face in shot as he moves about and to this extent there is no editing. This video clearly fits to Goodwin’s theory that a Artist creates a motif or style for themselves, Bob Dylan, as I previously stated, is wearing a Stetson styled hat, he wears this style of hat a lot on album covers so the hat can be seen as part of his motif, the other part of his motif is his harmonica, many of his songs feature harmonica songs he is well known for playing a harmonica. I like the idea of a performance being shot in one shot and might try to use this idea in my final video for any performance sections.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nxmt_the-pogues-a-fairytale-of-new-york_music
The second music video I am looking at is “Fairytale in new York” by Kristy McColl and the Poguse. This video is a mixture of performances and narrative. The lyrics fit to the video, when the lyrics are slower and more sentimental the images are as well, there is one section when the two singers are having a call and response fight and the images in the video is of them fighting, a more recurring images is showing the NYPC choir when the song sings about them. The images also fit up to the music as when it is slower the images are slower, for example the start which is a piano solo has a series of slow images and when the band starts playing the music picks up the editing becomes faster. The tempo of the video is related to the speed of the song when the song speeds up so dose the editing. The camera pans and moves slowly for most of the video showing the band playing or images corresponding to the lyrics, it tends to focus on longer shots and doesn’t really show many close ups or mid shots apart from showing the band playing, the video seems to like wide angle shots to show a lot of the band or in the narrative sections to show a lot of New York. The main editing technique in this video is fading between shots, this happens on many of the shots to create a fantasy feel to the whole piece. The other editing effect is that the video is in black and white to make it fit the fifty’s theme that the costumes are trying to create. The intertextuality is fifties films mainly the ones about a girl going to New York to find fame and fortune and not succeeding films like “A star is born” (1954). The genre stereotypes of this type of video, a duet video, are mainly held up as the couple sing over a piano, but some of the conventions are broken, for example the couple have a fight.
http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/video/bob_dylan/?bcpid=187832446&bclid=187743874&bctid=1184457364
My third video is “Most Likely You Go You” again by Bob Dylan. The video is a very interesting one as it is a autobiographical narrative video, the video follows a number of men dressed differently walking through different time periods, these men represent how Dylan changed as his corer went on, for example we see Dylan filming “Subterranean home sick blues” at the end of the scene he walks off screen and after a few shots of people standing around a motorcycle crash, we see a bed and Dylan dressed in his hype stage walking on. Some of the lyrics match up with the images, for example when the song goes “Telling stories that you know I believe are true.” The video moves in to the scene of a church. The music is drives the video as the music gets more complicated we are shown more men in the band playing instruments. The camera work is very clever as we are shown enough of each of the Dylan’s so that we can recognise him, normally focusing on his guitar, but apart from some extreme close ups of sunglasses at one point most of the shots of Dylan are mid to long shots. There is good intertextuality in this video linking back to other music videos that Dylan has done most obviously “Subterranean home sick blues” but it also has links in to the film “I’m not there” a film based on Dylan’s life. The editing is quite slow as is stereotypical for this style of the video but the most prominent part of the editing is the add on off effects and filters to make the film appear to be from deferent decades, for example the video starts in sepia and then moves to black and white, for “Subterranean home sick blues,” before evolving through many different colour formats before ending up at modern day film styles.
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