‘Called out in the dark’ analysis
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‘Called out in the dark’ - Snow patrol This video is reflective of its pop genre with the use of dancers in the background throughout the video. This is seen a lot in pop videos. The video is also narrating the making of a music video this is showing a famous singers job. The images relate to the lyrics as they say ‘Show me now, show me the arms aloft, Every eye trained on a different star’ and in the background the dancers actions are relating to the what is being said. When ‘I was called out in the dark’ is sung the singer is standing in the dark on the side of the set whilst the actor playing him in the music video has lights shining on him. This is portraying the singer as being forgotten behind the scenes while the actor is in the spot light. There is a scene with the singer jumping across the green screen. His top is clear this is as if he is trying to be seen but he is feeling ignored. In part of the video the singer saying the lyrics straight to the director making them more personal to the audience. An actor plays the role of the singer in the video but it is clear from the start who the real singer is this is made clear through mid and close up shots of the singer. This is typical of a music video as it makes them instantly recognisable to their audience. The whole narrative is about the singer getting in the way on a video set and trying to get noticed. The video is comical and makes the audience empathise with the character. There is a scene where the singer a wall falls down on the set showing the dancers getting changed. This is voyeurism but not used to sell the artist or production. The video as a whole is intertextuality as it is a video on a set of a video. There is a range of camera angles in the video. High angle shots are used in the dance scenes looking
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‘Called out in the dark’ - Snow patrol This video is reflective of its pop genre with the use of dancers in the background throughout the video. This is seen a lot in pop videos. The video is also narrating the making of a music video this is showing a famous singers job. The images relate to the lyrics as they say ‘Show me now, show me the arms aloft, Every eye trained on a different star’ and in the background the dancers actions are relating to the what is being said. When ‘I was called out in the dark’ is sung the singer is standing in the dark on the side of the set whilst the actor playing him in the music video has lights shining on him. This is portraying the singer as being forgotten behind the scenes while the actor is in the spot light. There is a scene with the singer jumping across the green screen. His top is clear this is as if he is trying to be seen but he is feeling ignored. In part of the video the singer saying the lyrics straight to the director making them more personal to the audience.
An actor plays the role of the singer in the video but it is clear from the start who the real singer is this is made clear through mid and close up shots of the singer. This is typical of a music video as it makes them instantly recognisable to their audience. The whole narrative is about the singer getting in the way on a video set and trying to get noticed. The video is comical and makes the audience empathise with the character.There is a scene where the singer a wall falls down on the set showing the dancers getting changed. This is voyeurism but not used to sell the artist or production.
The video as a whole is intertextuality as it is a video on a set of a video.
There is a range of camera angles in the video. High angle shots are used in the dance scenes looking down on the group of dancers together. Close up shots of the artist singing. There are also shots with filming of the video on a monitor.
There is a narrative in the video that is told in a chronological order leading up to the end of the video. This is documenting the filming of a music video. The video is original and the comical scenes keep the viewers attention through to the end of the video.
