http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVE8kSM43I&ob=av3e
The first image shown in the video for Slipknot's song Duality starts with a slow motion picture of a young man breathing heavily topless, at first due to the slow nature of it it doesn't seem conventional for a rock video, the audience expects fast heavy movements to go with the rock nature of the music. However, after this it breaks into normal speed with a mass of males charging as one with the majority of the group being topless. This scene represents how music can offer people a source of identity and create social solidarity from all different types of ethnicities and religions. On the other hand, later in the video scenes of violence and anger are produced, one such image being a man smashing a window with a chair. This particular male is topless and reinforces the brutality of the video as it produces a sense of animalistic behaviour, almost caveman like where men act purely on insticts and irrationally. This idea is carried on through the video as the masses are seen breaking things, climbing on buildings and pushing one another.
Additionally, its almost as if these characters are acting like an infection. Entering all area's of the house and destroying everything with a single touch acting with great speed and with no remorse.
The band Slipknot are famous for always wearing masks, its rumoured that not even there families know what they look like anymore because they always wear masks. This video doesn't break Slipknot conventions as they are seen with there masks on. This mysterious nature of the band creates a sense of individuality. By covering there faces and wearing different masks makes them unique to every person in the room. It also helps to identify them, if someone see's these group of people they immediately know who it is. Creating good publicity.
Two minutes into the video the lead singer breaks down the violence and controls the huge group of people in an almost religious format. He acts as the key speaker and holds his palm out to the audience where they stop and look as if there in a trance hanging on every word he says. This could represent how easily influenced some people in wider society are, showing that with the right people and the right words people can be manipulated to do all sorts of things because after the lyrics which slows them and puts them motionless are then made too act aggresively once more in a destructive way. The build up is done by extreme close ups on the faces of the audience very quickly swapping between the shots and eventually ends of a birds eye view of the entire crowd where they burst into motion acting physically against each other in a fighting manor.
Throughout the video the camera angles show how close the proximity is between the band and the audience with no barrier between them showing that the band, Slipknot are the same as the rest of them. It doesn't make them seem superior like most other video's. Where the band are shot from a low angle so its looking up at them making it look like there the more dominant figures but in this video everyone is shot at as a mid shot or close up showing the equality between people. The only difference is that the majority of the close ups are on Slipknot which enforces the importance of them and is easily seen through the imagery.
Sunday, 31 October 2010
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Pendulum-Witchcraft
Black=Lyrics
Red=analysis
it’s in your eyes, a color fade out
Looks like a new transition
The starting up and shaking your ground
Turning your head to see a new day calling
A change in the colour of eyes creates an image of dehumanisation, somewhat inhuman. The words "fade out" also brings together idea's of something loosing grip with reality.
When it says shaking your ground with the images of a new transition enforces to the audience a sense of commons values being stirred and rattled displacing people from a nature of comfortability.
Overall, this verse creates a sense of things changing, a nature of uncertainty for people.
Does it feel like a head to lean on?
A snapshot from where you were born
I’m looking for your hand in the rough
You’re caught in the wire
Well I’ll lift you out
The rhetorical question at the beginning i feel is asking whether or not the change in the first verse is a good change or not and then is also combined with something that creates a warm feeling, " snapshot from where you were born'. where you were born in mostly identified to be where your childhood is spent and where you first discovered things. Childhood is a fun and interesting time to be alive and looking back on it from a busy hard adult lifestyle further emphasises the idea of innocence and fun. However, it then starts talking about thing that create harmful imagery, 'rough,wire' and then when it says 'lift you out' it enforces the idea of a deep hole that you can't get out of. The contrast between the good and bad in this verse portrays to the audience confusion and despair.
Leading on the action
Caught in a cell phones rays
Bleeding on a sofa
Staring at the wayside
He’s coming and she knows it
Even though she knows why
Footsteps in the hallway
Girl you haven’t got time
There seems a real nature of fast pace in this verse as theres no longer any punctuation or questions its just quick listed sentences, one after the other. The verses continuance makes the speed seem really rapid which in turn reflects the sense of the lysics there self, it suggests a real sense of urgency, "You haven't got time" without time there is no chance for change as it has already happended but the desperation put across makes it seem as if something can still be done. The lyric "footsteps in the hallway" creates an eerie image as the footsteps seem as if they are bodyless and almost on auto pilot, as if possessed by something. Something dangerous. You can tell its something dangerous because it earlier says "bleeding on the sofa". A sofa is usually a place of comfort, for relaxation. By puttin bleeding before this creates an utter juxtaposition, you would not expect these two things to go together. Bleeding connotates all sorts of dangerous things such as; violence, death and pain.
Also it almost seems to plays on the 'damsel in distress' cliche. A female in peril at the hands of a male. Which additionally reinforces the idea of patriarchalism, that men are the dominant figure in society as theres nothing this woman can do against this man who's "coming and she knows it".
You gotta get out
Go far away
[x2]These lines further enforce the idea of danger but produces the possibility of escape. If she can get far enough then she can get out of the situation that she finds herself stuck in. The repition acts as a ploy to exaggerate more on the importance of escape due to the levels of danger.
Darkness in the bedroom
Maybe she is resting up
Maybe she was out late
Just come back from the club
I can’t hear her breathing
Something doesn’t seem right
Killer in the hallway
We’re living on a set time
This verse puts across to the audience that perhaps there is still help for this female yet as he has already become aware that something is wrong because the bedroom is in darkness. Darkness straight away creates affiliation between bad things because in darkness it disables the use of our sight which initially affects our sense of stability and without stability we are prone to be shaken by things.
The repitition of the word "maybe" also enhances the idea of uncertainty and the nature of danger becoming ever more evident. Immediately from " I can't hear her breathing" the character is aware that something has to be done to solve the enigma produces another sense of swiftness. Also although prior to thought we know that the character is still alive although there seems to be a "Killer" somewhere because he says "were Living on a set time". The word living lets the audience know theres still hope for salvation. But the set time justifies the idea of urgency and danger because when time runs out for them, there dead.We gotta get out
Go far away
[x2]
The audience doesn't get given the knowledge what the conclusion is to the story but perhaps makes it a good song because it lets the listeners make up there own mind for the fate of the characters and will appeal to even more people if they get to choose the ending. It makes it more personal and open for adaptation.
Red=analysis
it’s in your eyes, a color fade out
Looks like a new transition
The starting up and shaking your ground
Turning your head to see a new day calling
A change in the colour of eyes creates an image of dehumanisation, somewhat inhuman. The words "fade out" also brings together idea's of something loosing grip with reality.
When it says shaking your ground with the images of a new transition enforces to the audience a sense of commons values being stirred and rattled displacing people from a nature of comfortability.
Overall, this verse creates a sense of things changing, a nature of uncertainty for people.
Does it feel like a head to lean on?
A snapshot from where you were born
I’m looking for your hand in the rough
You’re caught in the wire
Well I’ll lift you out
The rhetorical question at the beginning i feel is asking whether or not the change in the first verse is a good change or not and then is also combined with something that creates a warm feeling, " snapshot from where you were born'. where you were born in mostly identified to be where your childhood is spent and where you first discovered things. Childhood is a fun and interesting time to be alive and looking back on it from a busy hard adult lifestyle further emphasises the idea of innocence and fun. However, it then starts talking about thing that create harmful imagery, 'rough,wire' and then when it says 'lift you out' it enforces the idea of a deep hole that you can't get out of. The contrast between the good and bad in this verse portrays to the audience confusion and despair.
Leading on the action
Caught in a cell phones rays
Bleeding on a sofa
Staring at the wayside
He’s coming and she knows it
Even though she knows why
Footsteps in the hallway
Girl you haven’t got time
There seems a real nature of fast pace in this verse as theres no longer any punctuation or questions its just quick listed sentences, one after the other. The verses continuance makes the speed seem really rapid which in turn reflects the sense of the lysics there self, it suggests a real sense of urgency, "You haven't got time" without time there is no chance for change as it has already happended but the desperation put across makes it seem as if something can still be done. The lyric "footsteps in the hallway" creates an eerie image as the footsteps seem as if they are bodyless and almost on auto pilot, as if possessed by something. Something dangerous. You can tell its something dangerous because it earlier says "bleeding on the sofa". A sofa is usually a place of comfort, for relaxation. By puttin bleeding before this creates an utter juxtaposition, you would not expect these two things to go together. Bleeding connotates all sorts of dangerous things such as; violence, death and pain.
Also it almost seems to plays on the 'damsel in distress' cliche. A female in peril at the hands of a male. Which additionally reinforces the idea of patriarchalism, that men are the dominant figure in society as theres nothing this woman can do against this man who's "coming and she knows it".
You gotta get out
Go far away
[x2]These lines further enforce the idea of danger but produces the possibility of escape. If she can get far enough then she can get out of the situation that she finds herself stuck in. The repition acts as a ploy to exaggerate more on the importance of escape due to the levels of danger.
Darkness in the bedroom
Maybe she is resting up
Maybe she was out late
Just come back from the club
I can’t hear her breathing
Something doesn’t seem right
Killer in the hallway
We’re living on a set time
This verse puts across to the audience that perhaps there is still help for this female yet as he has already become aware that something is wrong because the bedroom is in darkness. Darkness straight away creates affiliation between bad things because in darkness it disables the use of our sight which initially affects our sense of stability and without stability we are prone to be shaken by things.
The repitition of the word "maybe" also enhances the idea of uncertainty and the nature of danger becoming ever more evident. Immediately from " I can't hear her breathing" the character is aware that something has to be done to solve the enigma produces another sense of swiftness. Also although prior to thought we know that the character is still alive although there seems to be a "Killer" somewhere because he says "were Living on a set time". The word living lets the audience know theres still hope for salvation. But the set time justifies the idea of urgency and danger because when time runs out for them, there dead.We gotta get out
Go far away
[x2]
The audience doesn't get given the knowledge what the conclusion is to the story but perhaps makes it a good song because it lets the listeners make up there own mind for the fate of the characters and will appeal to even more people if they get to choose the ending. It makes it more personal and open for adaptation.
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