introduction to MUSIC VIDEOS

Differences between music videos and films

Music Videos

-Typically 3 Minutes

-Usually features the artist

- Typically doesn't have sequels

- Music playing within every shot of the video so synchronization is key if lip-syncing occurs

Films

-Typically 90 minutes

- Doesn't usually involve the writer

- Always has a narrative

- Sometimes sequels

- More expensive to produce, paying actors and sets and special effects

- Fewer films in the world than there are music videos

Chantal Goya - Si tu gagnes au flipper (1966)

• colours-black and white simplistic also reflecting the time and lack of technology available.
• shots/ scenes- head shot of singers head, staying still against a plain grey background, cut out and layed against what seems like a pinball machine in the back which a thing reading "when lit" in the foreground, periodically lighting up. this is put together as one scene. this and scenes of arcade games are interchangeably shown. 

how does this video differ from modern music videos? make referance to generic fluidity.

• tells a vague narrative but is stagnated, simple visuals and very few variety unlike modern videos which are complex and have many elements. 
• there is no intertextuality contrastibng to modern videos as it is almost hard not to. 
• pop but very muted and not intricate.

Rebecca- vanity angel (1989)

How does this video use elaborate mise en scene and bricolage to construct meaning for the audience?

• reflects the time period it was made in well as it is bright and colourful with many varying patters, very typical of the 80s. familiar and welcoming at the time, also helps people identify what is pop music.
• what is intersting is that she is japanese and so are  ost the band playters but the music video itsef is very americanised and out of touch with traditional japanese culture apart from the referance to the cherry blossom and parasols.