Textual Analysis of Our Music Track - Goodwin's Theory

Name of Track - 'Never There'
Artist - Hoobastank

Genre Characteristics

General Examples - Part-Performance, Part-Concept video, Focus on Band members throughout the video, concentrates upon singer seen singing to the camera, use of quick cut editing and under-cranking to create pace and suspension within the video narrative, psycho and mature narrative.

Detailed Example in our video - The video Will switch from the concept, narrative based part of the video to close-up and mid-shots on several band members, breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience, whilst the audience feel and see the narrative continuing.

Relationship between Lyrics and visuals

General Examples- The concept based part of the video will change in accordance to the lyrics of the song, creating a relationship between the two. The lyrics create a sense of psycho and tense emotions when the singer wants to break out and he needs someone with him who's never there. - "I'm filling up inside like I need to open wide and pour my heart out to you". As the lyrics change, the pace of the song therefore changes, which will be evident within our video by the the way in which we portray the performance and concept narratives.

Detailed Examples in our video - As the singer reads the above line, the camera will focus upon his facial expression and body movements to capture his breakout to the audience and convey the relationship of the lyric.

Relationship between music and visuals

General Examples- The music has three changes of pace within. The verses, the chorus and the breakdown. At all points when the song changes pace, the video will switch between the performance and narrative, similar to 'A' - Rush Song (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YrCxbKrA4SA&feature=related). This will symbolise the meaning and pace of the music to the audience.

Detailed Examples in our video - After the increased pace of the chorus, and the inevitable performance sequence part of the text, the video will quick cut into the guitar riff of the verse switching to the fast pace of the narrative as the singer and/or protagonist walks away from the camera with the camera fol owing.

Use of Close-ups and Image Motifs

General Examples- To convey the mood of the lyrics and visuals to the audience, we will exhaustively use close-up and mid-shots to portray the band performance and narrative of the protagonist. Certain image motifs will be included, such as the spiked hair and straight fringe, as well as the conventional tattoos, which could be drawn on or real, depending on the actors within the video.

Detailed Examples in our video - Whilst the visuals switch to performance during the chorus, we will use close-ups of the singer (and other musicians) to create an image motif and conventional camera techniques to convey the song to the audience.

Reference to Notion Of Looking

General Examples- Various camera angles will be used to capture conventional aspects of the protagonists and band members to identify them within the genre, such as hair styles, tattoos and instruments.

Detailed Examples in our video - During the performance part of the text, we will use various close-ups to capture conventional aspects of the band, such as when the singer is singing, the camera will be positioned to capture conventional aspects such as his muscle and tattoos.

Intertextual References

General Examples- Throughout the video, we will contain various intertextual references to videos of bands, also from this genre. For example, we Will use a quick cut narrative used by 'A' in the above video, as well as performance indications and sequences used by bands such as 'The Used' and 'Three Doors down' where we use various camera angles to capture the performance narrative.

Detailed Examples in our video - Filters and washes used in videos by bands such as Simple Plan could be used to add depth to the appearance of the video, and appear more stylistic similar to other videos of the genre, however, more concept- performance - based videos, such as 'The Used' - Pretty Handsome awkward, will be manipulated throughout the text.

Performance, narrative or concept based

General Examples- The video will be part performance and part-narrative based where the performance of the band will link with solo performances of the singer and parts of the narrative to connote the meaning of the lyrics through the protagonists actions.

Detailed Examples in our video - The chorus will focus upon selective sequences of the band performing around the narrative, which will then Link with the concept narrative part of the video for the verses, which will include limited camera shots of the singer .