Lyrics // Ideas for Music Video - Drunken Fumbling//Ego Honey - Update

Small additions such as the opening 'prologue' section giving the music video a more in depth story. and a few things moved around. I also decided to space out the additions of the band as it will not look so rushed.

Lyrics // Ideas for Music Video - Drunken Fumbling//Ego Honey

The final decision for the music video was Drunken Fumbling by Ego Honey. I took aspects from other music videos such as 'R U Mine?' by Arctic Monkeys and 'Basket Case' by Green Day but i then also took aspects from films such as 'Scott Pilgrim vs The World'. This would give the video aspects of modern day and late 90's indie rock which would therefore fit the genre. 

Within this idea, the characters of the music video would be: 

Female - Love interest 

Male - Females Boyfriend 

Band - Made up of drums, electric guitar, acoustic and bass

The 'protagonist' Male - He is in love with the female and wants to be with her

The story: 

It seems that the song is about a boy who has feelings for a girl but may have messed up with her in the past creating tension. She has later moved on and found herself someone else. However, the boy still loves her and wants her back. This therefore makes him write the song about her. He watches her throughout the song from the 'end of her street' (taking the lyric from the song). In the end the love interest and her boyfriend have an argument at a party and the only person that is there for her is the boy who has feelings for her. They then later rekindle their feelings and end up together. Ending in a cliche happily ever after. However, still keeping an aspect of seriousness due to the final shot being of the band playing and the female watching. 

This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race // Fall Out Boy - Andrew Goodwin Evaluation

The music video 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race' by Fall Out Boy displays characteristics from Andrew Goodwin's ideas of conventions of music videos.

Firstly, it demonstrates genre characteristics, such as the use of a stage performance at the beginning and the end. This is used in other music videos matching the 'Pop Punk' genre such as Sum 41's 'In Too Deep'. Secondly, its lyrics and visuals contradict each other. Thirdly, there is a relationship between music and visuals, for example at 0.29 there is a cut between a producer and then to the band. Furthermore, Goodwin says that 'The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artists and the artist make develop motifs which recur across their work' this is prominent throughout Fall Out Boy's work. Within this particular music video this shot :

is from another one of their music videos. Throughout they also have recurring close ups of the band and those within it. Additionally, Goodwin also describes music videos to 'Frequently reference to notion of looking and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body' this music video does both of those. The use of the cameras throughout the beginning sequence of the music video and then the use of the magazines also. Making the female body voyeuristic is also something done throughout in multiple scenes throughout the music video in shots such as 1:30 and 2:31. Finally, there is use of intertextual references used again from the bands earlier music videos such as the shot above and also the bassists costume of the black make-up around the eyes and the lead singers hat which became frequent throughout their later music videos.