Music Video Analysis 1

These are the 5 Music videos I have chosen to analyse for reading week. They all link in with the genre I hope to base my music video around.


1). System Of A Down - Chop Suey!
Date: 13th August 2001
Label: SONY BMG MUSIC
Genre: Alternative Metal
Director: Marcos Siega
Audience: Metal fans

Mise en Scene:

• Performance is set in front of crowd
• huge lights light up stage
• performed on a stage
• set in the car park of a motel

Camerawork:

• fish eye lenses used very frequently
• use of jib to get high angles
• harnessed camera to chest to get a view of the artists faces
• both high and low angles
• shots from above zooming out
• overhead shots
•  long shots
•  close up
•  panning
• over shoulder shot.

Editing:

• artists melt through each other on stage
• artists teleport around stage
• many cuts to reflect the fast pace of the song
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Performance:

• Instrument playing
• over exaggerated facial expressions
• Dancing 
• audience still until the music plays then they start dancing