How do the visuals respond to the music?
- The verses, choruses and bridges in the Metronomy video are punctuated by various transitional effects as we follow the bouncing ball around the house, such as quick pans.
- The main way the sounds of the song have been made visual is with the bouncing ball that follows the lyrics of the song along. Although it is a very simple idea, it translates the beat of the song into the visuals which is how the video responds to the song. The ball also bounces around the set which further enforces this point.
To what extent does it follow a narrative?
- Generally the video does not follow a narrative, however there are several places (in the verses) where we are shown part of the 'story' through literal still images like in the shot below. Again, this shows the video is visualising the song and therefore staying true to Andrew Goodwin's thesis.
- The lyrics of this song are generally to do with real life issues (relationships) and I think this is reflected in the video itself. For example, the ordinary clothing that each of the band is wearing represent a 'real life' image - complimenting the song.
- The video is mostly disjunctive. As for the most part, there is no real narrative and the bouncing ball and lyrics combination has no link to the lyrics of the song or hide any underlying meaning. Despite this, however, as we have already seen above there are some quite literal parts of the video which would make this a illustrative video as well as a disjunctive one.
Sven E Carlsson
"One of the most common methods of analysis is to break up the music video into black and white boxes. Almost everything is then perceived as opposites - trash or art, commerce or creativity, male or female, naturalism or anti-realism"
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