FEATURES OBSERVATIONS EXAMPLESGENRE CHARACTERISTICS

1) Bright and colorful2) Aims at the teenage

audience3) Very upbeat

1) Orange walls in the couples house2) This could aim at the teenage audience due to

teenagers being the stereotypically known to go over the top and not know the limit.

3) The whole song is upbeat and interesting.RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS?

The lyrics are clearly related to the story in the video.

The lyrics “carried away” are expressed by the acting throughout, for example when the girl is annoyed with her boyfriend wiping a bit of lipstick off her face she goes over the top and puts it all over her cheek.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND VISUALS?

The editing at the beginning of the video makes the relationship clear straight the way.

Halt of track when the man touches the girls face.

ARE THERE CLOSE UPS OF THE ARTIST AND STAR IMAGE MOTIFS?

There is not any close ups of the actors in the music video and there is some but only a few star image motifs.

“You make me sick”“Carried away”

IS THERE REFERENCE TO THE NOTION OF LOOKING?

There are very few but one would be when certain words are clearly upsetting the girl.

There is a camera zoom towards the girl’s breasts where the girl is holding the words “You make me sick”.

ARE THERE INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES?

This video suggests that women always get their own way and men are always saying sorry.

This is shown when the girl winks when she gets her own way at 1:22, the man is the only one saying sorry throughout the video e.g. 1:18.

IS THE VIDEO CATEGARY ILLUSTRATION, DISJUNCTION OR AMPLIFICATION? HOW MUCH OF EACH?

Completely illustration There is no lip syncing within the video, no instruments playing and no members of a band presented. For example when the lyrics are saying “sorry about that”, this is in the visuals in the video by presenting it in a cloud saying ‘sorry’.

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEOS (1)

Name of track: Carried Away

Artist: Passion Pit