Basket Case
This music video has a fairly equally balanced level of performance to narrative, with the two even often overlapping. There are plenty of zoom-ins and different camera angles of the band playing their instruments or singing. The change in shots is in time with the music, eg on a chord progression.
Although lacking in Intertextuality, the band is clearly recognisable by the codes of costumes and body language.
The music video follows Goodwin’s theory of music videos with clear lip-syncing, images reflecting lyrics, etc.
This is clearly a music video for the rock genre, with a focus on guitars and the leader singer, over-exaggerated facial expressions, violent narrative features and the costumes. The busy mise-en-scene keeps the audience engaged in an otherwise repetitive shot of the band performing.
Website
Overall, the website has a clear colour scheme and is very cohesive across the different pages with their layout, font, etc.
The first thing on the website is a link to their current tour, encouraging the audience to buy tickets. There is also links to other pages of the website such as merch, a sign up option, etc.
Scrolling down, there is a few examples of embedded music videos that can be played on the website or there is a link available to take the audience to their YouTube channel in order to stream the video. This benefits the band by gaining them revenue from YouTube plays.
Scrolling down again reveals the tour dates with direct links to each individual show on the tour, again encouraging the audience to purchase tickets. By specifying ‘low tickets’, the band is playing on the audience’s fear of missing out and not being part of the community.
Finally (apart from a set of quick links right at the bottom of the website) there is embedded merchandise with a link to their merch store and their coffee company.
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