George Watkins
I tried to find comparisons in music videos to try and
highlight trends within music videos, the two music videos I looked at are both
by ‘The 1975’ as this is the band that’s song we are using to make our music
video and also I am using them for inspiration throughout this blog including
when making my media products (digipak and magazine advert)
The comparison I will be doing is looking at some of ‘The
1975’s’ music videos for example the music video for ‘A change of heart’ and
the song ‘Robbers’.
one noticeable comparison between these two music videos is
the fact that there is 2 main characters, a man and a woman even though they
have very different appearances with one video having a male and female clown characters
and other having normal looking characters.
Another similarity between the videos is the storyline,
Todorov’s theory has five main sections to it and I believe that both of these
music videos has at least 2 of the 5 sections, the 2 are; the state of the equilibrium
where all is well and characters are looking happy and also a disruption of the
equilibrium which is where something has happened to change the mood or welfare
of the characters.
The state of the equilibrium in both videos is rather
evident however the disruptions often tend to come later on in the storyline,
the disruption in the song ‘Robbers’ is when the male actor/ lead singer
Matthew Healey is wounded in the store robbery and then the disruption in the
other music video is when the clowns fall out due to the male character persistently
annoys the female clown causing them to separate and they never rekindle their
love/ friendship.
Due to my findings and what seems like a running theme in
many of ‘The 1975’s’ music videos I will try to include some of the
similarities in my music video for example have a male main character and a
female main character who are seen to be happy and in love however a disruption
is caused and they fall out.
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