![How does the music video
demonstrate genre characteristics?
Genre: Indie Rock
0 Performance-based – Band members are present in the
music video performing the song with their musical
instruments.
0 Low budget production – The video itself is very
simplistic, minimal props are used i.e. finger puppets
and the setting does not change [the lighting just
differs].
0 Male Dominated – Like a typical indie band, Vampire
Weekend only contain male members and they are the
only people present in the whole music video.
0 Low-key lighting – Used to create mystery in the
background of the characters.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/vampireweekend-a-punk-180517121346/85/Vampire-weekend-a-punk-2-320.jpg)
![Does this music video apply to
any narrative theories?
0 I did not find any relation to narrative theories when
looking at this music video. This is because it is a
conventional performance-based video, in which the
artist[s] present their song. Without it being even
partially narrative-based, I am unable to apply
narrative theories to the video.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/vampireweekend-a-punk-180517121346/85/Vampire-weekend-a-punk-9-320.jpg)
Vampire weekend a-punk
- 2. How does the music video demonstrate genre characteristics? Genre: Indie Rock 0 Performance-based – Band members are present in the music video performing the song with their musical instruments. 0 Low budget production – The video itself is very simplistic, minimal props are used i.e. finger puppets and the setting does not change [the lighting just differs]. 0 Male Dominated – Like a typical indie band, Vampire Weekend only contain male members and they are the only people present in the whole music video. 0 Low-key lighting – Used to create mystery in the background of the characters.
- 3. Is there a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals? 0 “Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh” – The lyrics match the setting and weather of this particular scene in the music video; with what appears to be rain falling down. 0 Due to the fact that this music video is performance- based & clearly has a low-budget, it only focuses on the band performing the song rather than the correlation of lyrics and visuals.
- 4. Is there a relationship between the music and the visuals? 0 All of the band members are seen throughout the music video singing and playing along to the song – This type of diegetic sound is a key feature of an indie rock video. 0 Again, due to fact that the video is performance-based, there is no real detailed connection between the music itself and the visuals.
- 5. Are there any close-ups of the artist/band? 0 The closest shot to a close-up in this music video is of the lead singer. This is common for indie music videos to feature as it shows the importance of the main member of the band. 0 There are multiple long shots in the music video of the entire band rather than many close-ups, as the band is what this video is solely focused on.
- 6. Is there a frequent reference to the notion of looking? 0 The lead singer looks straight at the camera as he sings – direct mode of address, this creates a connection between the band and the audience so the audience can visualise the meaning and importance of the song. 0 As the video is a stereotypical, performance-based, indie-rock music video, there is no narrative and women are not featured - so sexualisation is not present.
- 7. Are there any intertextual references? 0 When looking at this music video in particular I was unable to link any intertextual references. This is due to the fact that it is a stereotypical performance-based video, where instruments are played by the band members to the song. Moreover, because the video has a low-budget, there is arguably a possibility that the band’s budget was not big enough to have a music video as complex to have intertextual references within it. 0 The lead singer stated in an interview that this music video was purely just representing their song and nothing more implicit.
- 8. Is the video performance, concept or narrative based? 0 Performance-based – This music video is heavily performance- based and this is clear from the very start, in the establishing shot of the video which involves the entire band and their instruments. Apart from a medium shot of the lead singer in one shot during the song, all the other shots consist of the musical instruments and them being played by the band – emphasising how the clear focus of this music video is to be performance – based.
- 9. Does this music video apply to any narrative theories? 0 I did not find any relation to narrative theories when looking at this music video. This is because it is a conventional performance-based video, in which the artist[s] present their song. Without it being even partially narrative-based, I am unable to apply narrative theories to the video.