N-dubz Morning Star

As I was watching the UK Top 40 on Viva, they played a "future hit" track which was "Morning star" by N-dubz. As I was watching this video I saw that they used some of the editing techniques that we are hoping to include in our own video. They used the different strips that we found in the Blink 182 video for "Always" where it is split in 3 or more ways but showing the same person, so it cuts them up to make it look disorientating to the audience. In this video however, it splits the screen in the oppisite direction so these strips are vertical rather than horizontal. This gives us a different perspective of the idea and we can look at both of the videos and compare them to see which way would look best for our video and fit in with our genre the best. We are hoping to film this next part of our video by next week, but this is another video that we can look at along with the Blink 182 video to get ideas for the editing.

This is the video:

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

I've chosen to analyse this video because I have always had to watch this video the whole way through and think it is very clever and challenges sterotypes of teenage boys. The video is from a persons point of view the whole time and it starts off with them having a shower and getting ready before going out, taking drugs, drinking alcohol getting in fights and sleeping with girls. The video is narrative as it is like a story being told of this persons life and showing us what a typical night out for them is. I also like the camera movements and editing as the person is getting more drunk because the picture becomes more distorted and jerky to show us how they are viewing the situation and the influence of the drugs and alcohol on them. The end of this video has a twist because it turns out the person you have been in the head of for the whole video is a woman when it has been set up to make you think it is a man because of the behaviour being shown. There are also certain things that happen in the video that go to the beat of the song such as when she smashes the window of the car and also when she rips the record from the DJ decks. This draws the viewer back to song and makes sure that the video does not completly distract you from the actual song, lyrics and beat.

Although the controversial video has been named in some top 10 lists of greatest music videos, it was infact banned from MTV when it was first released. This may have been because of the extensive use of drugs and alcohol and the violence you are shown, or it may be because of the homosexual activity which is often frowned upon in America which is where MTV is based.