· Find what albums they have released over the years with dates of release and the singles from the album. Find the album artwork too.

· Look at about 6 videos spanning the duration of their careers and from a variety of the albums.

· Look at things that remain the same and don’t change – this is called brand identity: it is part of the way the artist is styled and presented to the public.

· Look at ways the videos develop, improve and change over time – what do you think this symbolises or indicates about the artists?

· Look for ways in which the video might link or connect with the album artwork in some way (similar colours, imagery, styling, haircuts, settings, anything!)

· Think about budgets for the videos

· Add anything else about how the videos are tied to the song, the artists, and help us to understand them in a better way.

Muse!Albums..

‘Showbiz’ • Released: 1999.• Record Label: Mushroom.• Song: 13.

‘Origin of symmetry’• Released: 2001.• Record Label: Mushroom.• Songs: 12.

‘Hullabaloo’• Released: 2002.• Record Label: Mushroom.• Songs: 21 (2 discs).

‘Absolution’• Released: 2003.• Record Label: Mushroom.• Songs: 15.

‘Black holes and revelations’• Released: 2006.• Record Label: Helium 3.• Songs: 12.

‘Haarp’• Released: 2008.• Record Label: Helium 3.• Songs: CD-14. DVD-21.

‘The Resistance’• Released: 2009.• Record Label: Warner Brothers.• Songs: 11.

‘The 2nd Law’• Released: 2011.• Record Label: Warner bro’s.• Songs:13.

‘Drones’Released:2015.Record Label: Warner bro’s.Songs:-

‘Muse’ Singles..

1) ‘Mercy’

2) ‘Dead inside’

3) ‘Psycho’

4) ‘Panic station’

5) ‘Supremacy’

6) ‘Follow me’

7) ‘Madness’

8) ‘Neutron star collision’

9) ‘Resistance’

10) ‘Undisclosed desires’

11) ‘Uprising’

12) ‘Map of the Problematic’

‘Muse’ Singles..13) ‘Invincible’

14) ‘Nights of Cydonia’

15) ‘Starlight’

16) ‘SupermassiveBlack hole’

17) ‘Butterflies and hurricanes’

18) ‘Sing for absolution’

19) ‘Hysteria’

20) ‘Time is running out’

21) ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

22) ‘Dead star/in your world’

23) ‘Feeling good/hyper music’

24) ‘Bliss’

‘Muse’ Singles..25) ‘New Born’

26) ‘Plug in baby’

27) ‘Muscle museum’

28) ‘Unintended’

29) ‘Sunburn’

30) ‘Muscle museum’

31) ‘Cave’

32) ‘Undo’

33) ‘Muscle museum EP’

34) ‘Muse EP’

Sunburn- Muse..Narrative.

Low budget.

Use of instruments.Nothing that costs much, just a simple setting with a camera, cast and instruments.

Lots of hand held camera, giving the audience the tense feeling of the song.

Narrative is very fictional, lots of imaginary scenes.

Low budget production values.

Plug in baby- Muse..

Performance.

Narrative.

More money spent on this one, includes special effects.

However, still quite a low budget production values.

Indecent imagery of women- hardly any clothes on.

Men fully clothed.

Plenty of voyeurism.

Very fictional.

Invincible – Muse..

Performance.

Narrative.

Use of instruments.

Voyeurism.

Fictional.

Seems to be higher in budget.

Mise-en-scene such as props, costumes, backgrounds etc..

Wants the audience to feel like the singers are on a roller-coaster.

As the music gets more tense and upbeat the narrative seems to become more tense, such as dull colours, fire, etc..

Time is running out- Muse..Performance.

Narrative.

Use of instruments.

Lighting is very dull and quite calm colours, however when the chorus of the song comes the colours appear very dangerous and tense, reds and blacks etc..

Non-fiction.

No special affects, seems like it was a low budget video.Dancers are very

perfectly in time, until the chorus appears, could show that when the ‘time runs out’ everything will go wrong.

Uprising – Muse..

Narrative.

Fictional- dolls becoming alive.

Real life people (the band) same size as the dolls.

Performance, use of instruments.

Explosives.

Dolls start to melt by the fire, shows that the band (muse) have power and are “victorious”.

Teddy’s come alive and turn evil.

Animals – Muse..

Narrative.

Shows humans acting like and been treat like animals.

Narrative shows a human being used for animal testing.

Average in budget.

At the end finally shows the man being treat like a human.