Never Understand

Well tehn. Editing's progressing along nicely, and I think I'll have learned how to use Final Cut by the time it's due in.
So, what else to do? There aren't any lyrics for me to annotate, which is a bit less work but will probably cost me in the assessment. I've not really done any textual analysis of videos yet, so I've decided to follow the example of Jake and James and do it here. At the moment I'm just using the ones that obviously influenced my attempt.

1. Beastie Boys- Sabotage

Our decision to use silly costumes was a spur of the moment thing, but it's reminiscent of this, so I'm claiming it as an influence. In this case they provide comic effect by spoofing the conventions of 70s cop shows (huge tashes etc). Intertextual references!
Some of that crazy theory guy (Goodwin)'s stuff is reflected here. There's a "reference to voyeurism" in a brief shot of one of the cops using binoculars. While they're aren't shots of the band performing we do get close ups of them in their outfits, particular in their respective title card freeze frames ("starring Nathan Wind as Cochese" etc); presumably this satisfied the record company's wish to show the performers. The music definitely reflects the visuals, as it sounds like the kind of theme we'd associate with the kind of show they're spoofing. The lyrics don't correspond so much, although the line "I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate" is a reference to the 70s, which the video is supposedly set in... any takers? No?
Overall, I personally think this is a genius video that seems to have been designed to make people like me laugh, what with the cars going through cardboard boxes and people being tackled into swimming pools and rubbish.

2. Hüsker Dü- Could You Be The One

My use of blue and red acetate over the lighting may well have been subconsciously inspired by how they use it here, though I didn't go as far as that alternately blue and red thing pulled sideways over the camera. This kind of reminds we're watching through a camera (voyeurism!). Stylistically my video's more similar to this one ("live" performance being a convention of rock videos, cheers Goodwin). One thing it's got on mine is the camera that actually moves to track the performers (I didn't have anyone to move mine).
Anyway, here we get close ups of all band members playing and in Bob Mould's case singing- the guitar solo opens with a close up on the instrument, too. Is this a relationship between music and visuals? There doesn't appear to be any between lyrics and visuals, it's all performance. There's all sorts of crazy lighting and background stuff going on (80s!)

Think I'll leave it there for now, I am very, very hungry.