TASK 3

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEOS

NAME OF TRACK: ROBBERS

ARTIST: THE 1975

FEATURES

OBSERVATIONS

EXAMPLES

GENRE
CHARACTERISTICS

INDIE
ROCK

RELATIONSHIP

THERE ARE ONLY A

BETWEEN LYRICS

COUPLE OF

AND VISUALS ?

RELATIONSHIPS
BETWEEN THE LYRICS
AND THE VISUALS, THE
MAIN TWO THAT

COULD PICK OUT WHERE

THE LYRICS:

RELATIONSHIP

YOU LOOK SO COLD

AND N OW
EVERYBODY S DEAD
WITH THIS MUSIC VIDEO

BETWEEN MUSIC

BEING A PERFORMANCE

AND VISUALS ?

PIECE ,

I FOUND IT HARD

TO FIND RELATIONSHIPS
BETWEEN THE MUSIC
AND THE VISUALS.

ARE THERE CLOSE-

YES, THROUGHOUT THE

UPS OF THE ARTIST

MUSIC VIDEO THERE ARE

AND STAR IMAGE

CLOSE UPS OF THE LEAD

MOTIFS?

SINGER OF THE BAND .

IS THERE

I FOUND THAT THERE

REFERENCE TO THE

WERE SOME MOMENTS

NOTION OF

IN THE MUSIC VIDEO

LOOKING ?

WHERE THERE WAS

NOTION OF LOOKING .

ARE THERE

I COULDNT FIND ANY

INTERTEXTUAL

INTERTEXTUAL

REFERENCES ?

REFERENCES FOR THIS

MUSIC VIDEO

IS THE VIDEO

I THOUGHT THAT THIS

CATEGORY
ILLUSTRATION,
DISJUNCTURE OR

MUSIC VIDEO FITTED IN

AMPLIFICATION ?

HOW MUCH OF
EACH ?

THE ILLUSTRATION
CATEGORY.

3:43 TO
3:45

TASK 3
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEOS
NAME OF TRACK: KATHLEEN

ARTIST: CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN

FEATURES
OBSERVATIONS
GENRE
CHARACTERISTICS

ALTERNATIVE ROCK

RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN LYRICS

I FOUND THAT WITHIN

THE 3 D EFFECTS THAT

AND VISUALS?

THE MUSIC VIDEO HAD,

THEY AMPLIFIED THE
LYRICS WITH THE

RELATIONSHIP

COLOURS .
SLOW MOTION

BETWEEN MUSIC

EFFECTS ARE USED TO

AND VISUALS?

AMPLIFY SOME OF THE

3D

INSTRUMENTS
THROUGHOUT THE

ARE THERE CLOSE -

VIDEO .
THROUGHOUT THE

UPS OF THE ARTIST

MUSIC VIDEO THERE

AND STAR IMAGE

WERE CLOSE UPS OF ALL

MOTIFS ?

OF THE BAND MEMBERS

INCLUDING THE LEAD

IS THERE

SINGER .
THROUGHOUT THE

REFERENCE TO THE

MUSIC VIDEO

NOTION OF

COULDN T FIND ANY

LOOKING ?

NOTION OF LOOKING .

ARE THERE
INTERTEXTUAL
REFERENCES ?

IS THE VIDEO
CATEGORY
ILLUSTRATION ,
DISJUNCTURE OR
AMPLIFICATION ?
HOW MUCH OF
EACH ?

ILLUSTRATION AND
AMPLIFICATION.

EXAMPLES

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TASK 3
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEOS
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEOS
NAME OF TRACK: FALLOUT
FEATURES
OBSERVATIONS
GENRE
ALTERNATIVE ROCK
AHARACTERISTICS
RTIST : CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN
C

RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN LYRICS

THROUGHOUT THE
MUSIC VIDEO I FOUND

AND VISUALS ?

ONLY ONE OR TWO

RELATIONSHIPS
BETWEEN THE LYRICS
AND VISUALS , ONE THAT
STOOD OUT THE MOST
WAS THE LYRICS

ALWAYS SEEM TO
FALLOUT (2:08 TO 2:18)
AND DURING THESE
LYRICS , IN THE MUSIC
THERE ARE TWO MEN
FIGHTING .

RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN MUSIC

AT 0:57 IN THE MUSIC

VIDEO , THE MAN BANGS

AND VISUALS ?

ON THE STEERING
WHEEL TO REPRESENT
THE DRUMS IN THE
MUSIC VIDEO .

ARE THERE CLOSE-

THROUGHOUT THE

UPS OF THE ARTIST

MUSIC VIDEO THERE

AND STAR IMAGE

WERE NO CLOSE -UPS OF

MOTIFS?

THE LEAD SINGER .

IS THERE

THERE WASNT ANY

REFERENCE TO THE

NOTION OF LOOKING

NOTION OF

THROUGHOUT THE

LOOKING ?

VIDEO

ARE THERE
INTERTEXTUAL
REFERENCES ?

IS THE VIDEO
CATEGORY
ILLUSTRATION ,
DISJUNCTURE OR
AMPLIFICATION ?
HOW MUCH OF
EACH ?

DISJUNCTURE .

EXAMPLES