Conventions of a Music Video

Sum 41 – Walking Disaster

The performance shots are in a sweet shop that automatically

tells me its going to be a upbeat song with a younger

target audience.

In the video the narrative shots are of a toy robot symbolising the idea of the story of the song as the lead

singer we presume

The performance shots are all in the sweet store but are shown in a different range of

shots.

When the shot goes back to the performance shot of the robot, it

is doing many different ‘fun’ activities to a male in their

childhood/teens.

Close to the end of the song there is a lot of fast-paced editing of the performers

trashing their performance space.

Whenever the song slows down, the robot stops doing

sports and begins doing things that aren't so physical. I didn’t like the idea of using a robot as

a symbol as what the song is about.

Linkin Park - Numb

The narrative is of a girl as everyday life is blurring

around her, there is much editing and effects used in

the piece.

The performance shots take place in a very visually appealing church and

throughout the song it shows 360 degrees of the space.

The people in a school all blurring around the girl completely rejecting her

from their lives. Isolating her completely.

All performers are shown in the piece with a slow zoom out from the lead singer in the middle. In these shots

the camera never stops moving.

There is a slow movement of the camera tracking from left to right showing the

performer and the surroundings of the inside of

the church.

Another shot of the girl with life blurring behind her. But this

time with her looking over her shoulder

towards it.

Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag

The narrative is about the ‘Teenage dirtbag’ and tells a story about him being a nerd in

school, being bullied and ignored completely.

The whole video is shot in a school for

performance they shot it in a school corridor with

loads of shots of each member of the band, focusing on the lead

singer.

The girl is shown looking back at him but in the

end its just him standing in front of her boyfriend

who she is walking towards.

As the story goes on it shows him showing

a fancying to a specific girl who has

no interest in him and possibly doesnt

know he exists.

Many shots of both narrative performers

and the band is shown including a birds eye

view of the band playing in a circle.

During the ‘prom night’ part of the song it is

performed in an actual prom night, on the stage as them performing as a

live band.