Music Video analysis questions

• What are the songs about?

Massive Attack:
Unfinished Sympathy tells the story of a women who is unable to get over a relationship.



Radiohead:

Burn The Witch is about people who want to kill a witch. This is also portrayed through the music video.

• What message or messages do they convey to the audience?

Massive Attack:
Unfinished Sympathy portrays the message of how hard it can be to get over past relationships and how they can effect your every thought and day to day life. It also portrays the power of love to the audience, which would be relatable to most as they are likely to have experienced a breakup/separation from someone at some point in their lives.

Radiohead:

Burn The Witch conveys the message of the ' fear of outsiders' relating to the current refugee crisis in Europe.

• How have the artists been represented in their videos?

Massive Attack:

Within the music video to Unfinished Sympathy, The band are featured very little in the video, leaving the focus purely on the singer, Shara Nelson. 3D, Daddy G, and Mushroom appear walking or crossing the street at points in the video, but only as an extra or role as an average person in the streets. As the band blend into the background of the streets themselves, represents them as normal people and the background that they come from, as well as Shara also represented as a normal person walking down a street.

Radiohead:

In the video to ' Burn The Witch' Radiohead are represented as a creative and individual band, through therir choice of animation. Also, the message that the video and sonbg itself portrays the banmd 

• Why have they been represented in such a way?

Massive Attack:

Radiohead:

• Do the videos represent the artists successfully?

Massive Attack:

I think that Unfinished sympathy music video successfully portrays the artists. this is because in the video 3D, Daddy G,Mushroom and Shara Nelson are all portrayed to be normal people casually walking down a street in LA, which portrays the bands roots and where they came from,  the streets of Bristol itself.

Radiohead:

I think that the video to Burn The Witch also successfully portrays Radiohead. This is because the unique style of the video, inspired by the Trumpton triology, expresses the bands individuality. It also portrays the bands creativeness in the style of music that they create.

• What styles of film making have been used? Why utilise such styles?

Massive Attack:

The Video to Unfinished Sympathy consists of only one long tracking shot. THis enables the audience to follow Shara Nelson down the street of LA, making the audience feel like they are following her, or are apart of the video itself, within the setting. The use of different angles enables the audience to view Shara from several different perspectives of different characters walking down the street among her.

Radiohead:

The Music video to Burn The Witch was made using stop- motion animation in the Trumpton Triology style, with a more gruesome twist. This animation would be familiar with listeners who followed the band when they were first formed, who would have perhaps watched Trupton Tripology TV shows as children.The video itself conveys the story in which the lyrics of the song tell, and express the current crisis of refugees.

• Why does the Radiohead video reference Trumpton and The Wickerman?

Radiohead:

• How and why has 'the street' been used in the Massive Attack Video?

Massive Attack:

• Do the visuals work well with the musical and lyrical content?

Massive Attack:

Radiohead:

• What 'pleasure' does the audience get from each video? Consider fans of the artists in question.

Massive Attack:

Radiohead: