Music videos (Blink- 182- first date), Bjork- (all is full of love)

Blink- 182, First date

"Analysing mise-en-scene, editing, camera and sound"

This man wrote about his and his wife’s first date, based on 1970’s, almost mocking the hair styles and clothing. There are aproximately 164 shots in this music video, creating a great visual beat that goes well with the up- beat song. 

This low angle two shot suggests the power that the boys thought they had that age and mirrors the eager of wanting to be popular and when they were younger. The shot fulfils their desires of being seen as ‘big’. The shot also implies almost the audience hiding and spying on them because they are quite further away from the camera and they do not seem to know that they are being filmed. 

This is a slowed down close up shot of the boy falling out of the campervan. The fact that the shot is slowed down could represent the fact that they were clumsy as we can see he seems unstable on his feet as he ‘falls out’ of the van. The close up shot allows us to notice the mise-en-scene- the costume that is quite old fashion and matches the 70’s mood.  The smoke that we can see behind the boy suggests the trouble that the boys had used to get up to back in the 70’s. 

This is a transition that the band had used; it is quite simple but distinctive because we know that it is there. The simplicity of the transition underlines the simple life that they had before and also separates the different settings in the music video too. 

This jump cut has been used to highlight the chaos of the boys’ holidays. It also creates a feeling that this guy standing here is quite strange and emphasizes on this. The huge amount of sun cream on his nose helps us to determine that this guy is strange. The cropped top could imply homosexuality (if being extremely stereotypical).

 

This is a close up of the boy’s favourite band. It is reminder of the people that they used to look up to and wanted to be like.

The fact that it had zoomed in to get to the close up shot makes the audience focus more on the band and gives a clue about what happens next:

This almost re- acts the dream of being like the boys in their drum. They are almost taking the mick of the dreams that they used to have because of the way the guy on the left hand side reveals his tattooed body (but actually isn’t masculine) and also because of the over dramatic background. 

Bjork- All is full of love