Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Analysis of films from Future Shorts- Music Video: The Black Ryder- Sweet Come Down

http://www.youtube.com/futureshorts#p/c/AA848728072276E2/2/MjyTLugBImc

The above link is the Link for the Short Music film- Sweet COme Down by The Black Ryder.

The video overall is approximately 2 and a half minutes. The music that is composed is very representative of Texas like culture using harmonicas and a guitar and a steady consistent beat. The vocals are very mellow and echoey, sometimes amale and sometimes a female voice. Both are very soft and mellow. The videowork is very complimentary of the song.

Mise-en-scene/ camerawork:
Throughout the video the scene is set in a desert-like place in seeminlgy an old western town. Bodies that are dead are shown with blood everywhere as the protagonist walks along. The film is taking on one long tracking shot like a timeline is being revealed of maybe what happened the night before? I believe there is alot of allegory in that only the persons feet are shown until the end, creating a sense of anonmity and not revealing much, only what this person has seemingly committed? Throughout the film we are led to believe this is a man who has killed the people lying on the ground and against a truck, however at the end a figure is revealed that can only be that of a womans. Her face is revealed int he last shot and then it fades out.

Within the shots the colour is very washed out and sepia toned, however colours of red are emphasised when blood is shown. The main persona is wearing black, which is the opposite of white; which means purity. So therefore the dark colours can connote bad things within the video.

The video is typically American and so is the music,as aforementioned the music represents the cultural aspects of the video which are represented quite obviously throughout.
With regards to the music again there are no dynamic shifts in the music, nor the camerawork. The musics tempo is level as is the camerawork. One could propose that this music video is a narrative of the lyrics in the song.

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