Features Genre Characteristics

Relationship between lyrics and visuals?

Observations This video is a typical rock video where there are pieces of film chopped up and placed in significant parts of the video where a part in the music or lyrics have reference to it. Lyrics are closely related to parts of the video that they have been put with and this gives the lyrics more meaning.

Examples The whole video is awash with fast cuts back to the band playing and head banging to the music. 1.15 seconds in shows a close up of a man with the lyrics cant judge a book from looking at the cover... hints at the man being different to what he looks like Between 1:10 and 1:25 the music feels to get faster as it moves into the chorus and this is emphasised by the use of frequent cuts between different parts of the band as well as deliberately tilting the camera. 0.50.1.00.1.05.1.101.12 These are just a few examples of when the bands singer has been shown.

Relationship between music and visuals?

Typically, being a rock video there are loads of parts of the video where when the music gets heavy near the chorus, there are more visuals of the band playing and the singer singing.

Are there close ups of the artist and star image motifs?

Is there reference to the notion of looking?

There are a lot of close ups of the artists instruments, the artists themselves and deliberate shaking of the camera, so it gives the impression that the music is so loud its shaking the building. There is a motif in where the lead vocalist comes up many times. There are a few references to notion of looking in this video

Are there intertextual references?

There are intertextual references within the lyrics and video because the video is purposefully made to hint at certain things that are between the lines.

Is the video This is an amplification video because there category has been thought of what clips should be illustration, put behind what lyrics. disjuncture or amplification? How much of each? Video Lonely Train by Black Stone Cherry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omo-fwok15E

0.25 seconds into the video shows a short clip of a Taxicab card with the lyircs sometimes, I want to ride away showing the audience that this is happening 3.30 to 3.35 gives a good example of the intertextual reference as theres a close up of an old woman and the lyrics cant judge a book because the audience has already heard these lyrics, they know what the next bit will say and, again, it hints that theres something more that meets the eye about that person. Amplification because through the video there are frequent references between the lyrics and the pieces of the film, so mise en scene has been considered in the making of this video.