Music video analysis - 1

1.       Without you – oh wonder

Mes-en-scene:

Locations: rooftop, street, Room where they are singing, old fashioned buildings, underground (tube), bridge, sea (harbour), stage where they are going to perform, train.

All of these locations are a narrative to the music video of how they are lost without each other, as they are both walking round trying to find each other and once they find each other they are at peace and are ready to ‘perform’ together.

Props: bike

Clothing: when they are in a room singing there clothing matches the colour of the wall this creates an aesthetic feel, they only used the colours pastel pink and green which are quite soft colours.

Walking around the street:

Man: black jacket, white shirt, black jeans, black boots

Woman: Black long sleeve dress, white trainers, black hat

On Train:

Man: Striped t shirt, black jeans

Woman: black long sleeve top, flowery trousers, white trainers

Camera:

Establishing shot of the sky, name of song and band come up on screen.

Zoom in to man laying on rooftop- as we are moving physically closer to him us as an audience will feel emotionally closer to him.

Zoom out of woman laying in the street- as we are moving physically away from her we as an audience will feel emotionally distanced from her.

This could also mean that he has more power than her and that she is very vulnerable.

Medium close up of them singing, Woman is closer to the camera, from the camera angle it looks like he is behind her. (Pink room)

Panning shot, close up of man when he is looking around

Long shot of woman when she is looking around

As an audience we still feel emotionally and physically closer to the male and we have been very distanced from the woman so far.

There is another medium close up of them singing in a green room this time the man is closer to the camera and from the camera angle is looks like she is behind him this time.

There are a lot of tracking shots of them walking, they are quite quick tracking shots, this shows the audience that the characters are in a rush to get somewhere or there life is going by quickly as they are not with each other and once they meet everything slows down like they are in there own world.

Medium close up of the man and woman on a train at the end, this suggests everything that just happened was a dream due to the fact they run off at the end or it could be something that happened the night before they are remembering.

Editing:

Quick cuts from the narrative and the artists singing.

Lip syncing to the song

Sound:

Oh wonder singing without you

Diegetic sound of the characters being on a train at the end, marks the end of their journey/their dream.

Theories:

Todorovs narrative theory states how all narratives share a basic structure that involves a movement from one state of equilibrium to another. This is shown in this music video as at the beginning they do not know where each other are and they are ‘lost’ without each other, the disequilibrium was them not finding each other and the new equilibrium was when they finally found each other and began their new journey (performing music together.)