Main Text Deconstruction 3

Death From Above 1979-Trainwreck 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqBYHrw9_ys

I have chosen to deconstruct the official music video by Death from Above 1979 due to its lyrical and imaginative narrative. As the music video doesn’t follow typical codes and conventions because it doesn’t show a story through a narrative, or have any characters. It is simply conveying still images into moving images and at times animated images. Each image represents a certain part of the song via objects such as badges or jackets the background is constantly revolving  in the same pace as the song, and that is my aim to have the editing pace similar to the music. Another reason I specifically chose this music video was because it is unlike the other two music videos it doesn’t display old footage or cross cut in between two narratives. So, this video displays what my second narrative out of 3 would be I my music video, whilst the third structure to my video will be filming a male so I can get camera shots and angels within my music video.

Camera angles

Due to the camera never moving it doesn’t actually have camera movements, therefore the only element I can talk about is the camera angles it is in a constant medium shot, sometimes going into a close up to certain elements of the video that need to be priorities such as lyrics, this is for the audience to also priorities what elements of the video is important.

Sound

This music video uses only non-diegetic sound because the audio track needs to be heard due to the purpose of the video is to promote the music.

Mise en scene

The main theme of the music video is badges, it’s the only thing that is used in every shot. Although, the colour and shape changes it’s the one thing that stays in the music video. The rest of the props seem to be things you can place badges on such as jackets and other pieces of clothing. I didn’t think of themes as important roles of a music video but having watched this music video, themes are the core of a music video otherwise the video would become unstructured therefore I am now thinking of placing a theme into my music video.

Editing

There is no real editing other than taking still images and making them into a fully moving video, this is basically placing all the images together which transfers into a montage.