Andrew GoodwinMusic Videos:

• Demonstrate genre characteristics• Show a relationship between lyrics and visuals

(illustrating, amplifying, contradicting)• Show a relationship between music and visuals

(illustrating, amplifying, contradicting)• Demands from record labels include close ups of artist

and motifs that develop over artists videos.• Frequently reference the notion of looking (screens within

screen, telescopes etc) and voyeuristic treatment of female body.

• Often have intertextual reference (other films, TV programmes etc).

Analyse for Goodwin’s points.

Any more points we can add?

• Radiohead - Just (1995) Dir. Jamie Thraves • Blur - The Universal (1995) Dir. Jonathan Glazer• N*Sync - Pop (2001) Dir. Wade Robson

Rules are made to be broken:

UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights (1998) Jonathan Glazer

Daft Punk - Da Funk (1996) Dir. Spike Jonze

What are you researching?Music videos

• Pick a director

– Chris Cunningham– Spike Jonze– Michel Gondry– David Fincher– Mark Romanek– Hype Williams– Lasse Hallstrom– Hammer and Tongs– Adam Levite

• Find a good video and analyse it using Goodwin’s points.

• Post screenshots and explanations on your blog.

Documentaries

• Find a documentary

● Dispatches on 4OD● Examples on YouTube● BBC iPlayer

• Analyse it for features and production considerations

• Post screenshots and explanations on your blog.