Deconstruction of an
Indie Music Video
The establishing shot in this video sets the scene of the
song, the surroundings are very American, he looks like he’s outside a flat
which is also his office, the colours are very bland and simple which is
typical of an indie music video. It comes up with the band’s name in their font
along with the title of the song “Lonely Boy”, which is quite unconventional of
any music video in general. The song
title puts the African American man’s character into context. This first image
makes us feel quite sorry for the man, a lonely older man who is in a place
which looks quite awful to be in, but he doesn't look hard done by due to the
clothes he’s wearing, but they are black and white which connoted that that is
the view of this man and the band itself.
These next three images show that the entire music video is
just of this man dancing and singing along to the song, it is very simple yet
effective in the respect it is very amusing to watch and will be watched time
and time again due to the humour of it. The man throughout is very stern within
his facial expressions but is very funny and diverse through his movements.
This video again is not conventional, as the one I had looked at previously, it
is clear that indie videos can go one way or another, they either go for the
humour, I don’t care kind of approach or they go for the simplicity where they just want people to listen to their music without distraction because
after all they are not seemingly into being famous, they just want people to
enjoy their talent.
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