Example - Won't Go Quietly
For this post I am going to compare two music videos from the same artist and same genre.
The two tracks are ‘Kickstarts’ and ‘Won’t Go Quietly’ by ‘Example’. Both being in the genre category of dance and chart music. They are well known tracks by most young people. The first comparison of the two videos are that the first one is all narrative based in a big home/ building, and the second video (Won’t go quietly) is performance based.
The ‘Wont go quietly” video is about a girl having a dream about what happened before she feel asleep. It shows us dancing at a night club to the artist “example” and then at the end waking up in bed with him.
The other video is about a couple of people, and for each verse of the track it contains video footage relevant to the lyrics. As for the chours, I am unsure and don’t understand the logic behind showing different head/ top part, body, and legs. (sometimes its money for a head, or folks for legs. To the audience its clear they are trying to create a persons body, but its not clear why they used those props.
Camera Shots:
Both videos tend to use mid shots, which give the audience enough to see who the actors in the video are, but also see where the video is set in. ‘Kickstart’ uses a close up of peoples feet tapping to the beat, and contains other close up of hands, eyes and other features which relate to the video.
Editing:
The first use a lot of split screen editing, showing more than one camera at once. Sometimes up to 16 different shots. Then use of these shots flicking off to reveal the main video at 15seconds is a very good editing transition. The second video uses mainly cut shots, but some dissolve transitions.
Sound:
There is no diagetic sound in the ‘kickstarts’ video, it is the entire original record track. In the other video, the only diagetic sound we hear is the girl screaming at the end, as she wakes up from her dream.