Today we were suppose to spend time editing our piece, however due to the bad weather conditions the school closed. I found this the ideal opportunity to do some more work on the blog.
Firstly I have analysed a Keane video:
Somewhere only we know:
In total the video lasts for 3 minutes and 26 seconds
Unlike their other music videos, ‘Some where only we know’ contains high amounts of storyline, where their other videos, evolve around mainly performance. Performance however is used but incorporated within the storyline. They use lip synching, and we see the band playing the drums and the piano.
The settings used are dark and dreary; and is quite scary at some points this is a common factor I have noticed within all of their music videos.
The storyline evolves around the band and we tend to see the main singer throughout, the video advertises and promotes the bad well.
Another thing I have noticed that Keane tend to use within their videos, is the idea of abstract characters/ ideas. Although there is a storyline, the audience may not understand this as we don’t really know what’s going on. They have also used an abstract/ animated character within the video; I think they have used this to simply make the video more interesting.
The video matches the lyrics quite literally- ‘Some where only we know”. The band are seen in a dark, gloomy isolated area, where they are seen performing.
In comparison to their other videos, this one seems more interesting for the audience this is because there is more going on rather than the band shown performing throughout the whole song. The performance and storyline is also very much played out to the beat of the song which is another music video convention.Fade out editing has been used a lot during the video, at one shot that stood out for me was the shot in the taxi when the window is all steamed, I think it’s really effective and fitted in really well with the rest of the video. The window looks as if it’s got a message on it, trying to hint something to the audience.
By Rebecca Gomes
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