Monday, 6 January 2014

VIDEO ANALYSIS 2

BON IVER - HOLOCENE
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE
 FEATURES TO LOOK FOR
 GENERAL EXAMPLES
 DETAILED EXAMPLES
 Genre Characteristics
 Filmed in Iceland, showing the beautiful and weird nature e.g. glaciers and greenery in the same place.
 Young boy, displays innocence and sweetness of the music
 Relationship between lyrics and visuals?
  2:03-2:06 "I can see for miles, miles, miles"
2:21-2:25 "where we learned to celebrate" boy throwing rocks into the air as if to celebrate
 Relationship between music and visuals?
 During the instrumental, the boy is shown walking around
 3:12 - the stick splashes in the water when the pitch changes
 Are there close-ups of the artist/star motifs?
 No close ups of artist, however there is closeups of the young boy in the video
3:16-3:18 - the camera pans around the boy and it is a close up
3:56 - close up of boy smiling
 Reference to the notion of looking?
 0.54-0.59 - Boy looking out of the window at something
 3:40-3:44 - the boy is shown looking out into the distance
 Intertextual references
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 Performance based/Concept based/Narrative based - how much of each?
 Narrative based
 telling the story of the boy enjoying life, thought to be the artist when he was younger and is now realising he is not as free as he once was

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