Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Unconventional Music Video



Warriors Dance by Prodigy is an example of an unconventional music video.
The band themselves are not included in the video, however, their logo of a spider is much apparent in this video, and do turn into people like figures. So perhaps in this sense the band are represented by paper like figures.
Close up shots of these characters are shown throughout the music video, as are tracking shots. The narrative does not correspond with the lyrics. The lyrics are suggestive of a dance competition between two people, which does not happen in the music video. The lyrics do not mention the title of the song, or an attack on characters dancing.The title of the song and the video could share a correlation, of two opposing sides and the paper character who lights the match in the video could be the victorious warrior killing those who are dancing, therefore ironically this act could be a 'dance' of his own. However, there is no indication throughout the music video that these are opposition as the paper characters that get set alight simply come to life and dance, and there is no suggestion in the lyrics or mise-en-scene that a killing will take place. In my opinion, as there is a close up of the first paper characters you see (the killing ones) set up the music amp and call out the dancing paper characters to dance, therefore it is apparent that they are setting up a situation for these characters to dance to.
The music that these characters dance to is suggestive of the music track itself with the use of the music amp, and the representation of the band's logo.

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