Michael jackson music vid

Michael Jackson Music Video Analysis

Dangerous1991• Black or White

Got To Be There1972•

Off The Wall1979• ‘Rock With You’• ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til

You Get Enough

Thriller1982• Thriller • Billie Jean

Bad1987• Bad• Man in the

Mirror

Forever, Michael1975•

Music & Me1973•

Ben 1972• Ben

Michael Jackson Music Video Analysis

Michael2010

Xscape2014

Invincible2001•

HIStory1995•

Got To Be There

‘Ben’

• Performance• Abstract costume

Music and me

Forever michael

‘Rock With You’

• Performance• Dance in sync with the music • Close up of feet

‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’

• Performance• Music in sync with dancing • Only one person in vid – establishing himself

as a solo artist.

Thriller

‘Billie Jean’

‘Bad’

• Dancing follows pace of video – music slows down – dancing ceases

• Long shots to see the extent of synchronised dancing.

• Performance• More than one character - ?

‘Man In The Mirror’

‘Black Or White’