For our preliminary music video task, we were told to get in groups of 7 or 8 and then create a storyboard for the first 1 minute and 14 seconds of the video above. In our group, we split up into 3 seperate mini-groups and storyboarded 25 seconds of the video each to save time. I helped do the first 25 seconds, along with Catherine. See the next post for the storyboard!
Within the part of the film we were told to do, the actual contents of the video certainly illustrate the lyrics through use of images and actions. For example, the line "I drop my pencil on the floor, she bends down and shows me more" is matched with the imagery of the teacher in the video doing exactly that, as one of the band members drops a pencil off his desk. This fits in with Andrew Goodwins theory of illustration in music videos. Another theory that this video fits in with is Laura Mulveys male gaze theory, as the teacher is constantly shown as something that the male actors/ bend members in the video tend to gaze at a lot. The video also includes a lot of close up shots of the band members throughout, as is pretty much conventional in any music video.
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