Music Video Research Blog

Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

Camera angles, movement, and shots

• Zoom
• Tracking shot
• Eye level
• Pan
• Medium close-up 
• Medium shot
• Low angle
• Ariel shot
• Low angle
• Close-up
• Wide shot
• Point-of-view shot

Editing

• Fade-in
• Dissolve
• Shot-reverse-shot
• Fade-out

Sound

• Entirely non-diegetic sound, only the song 

Mis-En-Scene

• Youthful clothes, bucket hat, trapper hat, 
• Bike
• Car
• Music equipment: drums, guitars, bass, microphone, keyboard
• Textbooks and backpacks, for school
• On staircase
• At school, in hallway
• At prom
• In school gymnasium 
• The main character is a “loser.” He is picked on by other students. In the end, his crush, a girl, dances with him at prom and brings him concert tickets. However, it is suggested that that was all a dream, with a dissolve to the main character back where he was in the opening scene on the stairs
• Natural lighting throughout the video.
• Scene at the end is dark, but has sparkly lights

Can’t Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Camera angles, movement, and shots

• Tracking shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• Eye level
• High angle
• Low angle
• Wide shot
• Two shot
• Medium closeup
• Three shot

Editing

• Cross cutting 
• Cutaway
• Insert
• Action match
• Shot/reverse shot
• Eyeline match

Sound

• Diegetic sound

Mis-En-Scene

• Lead singer and guitarist are shirtless
• Drummer and bassist are wearing casual, everyday street clothes
• Takes place in a warehouse
• Warehouse has many different rooms, including a small stage, a room filled with buckets, a room with a broken brick wall, and a room with LED lights and mirrors
• Lighting is usually bright fluorescent light, but in scenes with the LED mirror room, the lighting turns to red.
• Musical equipment including drums, bass, and guitar
• Props such as buckets, water bottles, broken bricks, lightsabers, and a plant are frequently used.
• Lead singer is covered in tattoos
• No storyline; very random

My Hero - Foo Fighters

Camera angles, movement, and shots

• Tracking shot
• Two shot
• Three shot
• Eye-level shot
• Medium long shot
• Medium close up
• Medium shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• Low angle
• High angle
• Pan
• Tilt
• Close up

Editing

• Cross cutting
• Insert

Sound

• The music in the video is diegetic sound at time.
• Sound bridge during the cross cutting
• The music can also me non-diegetic sound

Mis-En-Scene

• Musical equipment(guitar, drums, bass, microphone)
• Takes place at a street, and then a burning building
• The building has a sofa, a table with lamps on it, and a landline telephone.
• There is a painting in the background along with a tv set and an ironing board.
• The lighting gives everything an off-putting, duller color.
• The main character pretends to be a good Samaritan and runs into a burning building to save a baby and a dog.