Analysis Of Music Videos

These analysis will be based on Goodwin's Theory of Music Videos, and the Codes & Conventions of an Indie music video.

Indie/Rock Music Videos
Band/artist shown throughout the video  
May have special effects
Calm, but changes as beats 'kicks' in
Narrative/ Performance clips the song.
Close ups


Snow Patrol tend to follow the codes and conventions of an Indie Music video quite perfectly.
The music video for their song, "Crack The Shutters" follows the codes and conventions. It is slightly dark, following the codes and conventions of a Rock music video aswell.  It  has close up and extreme close ups of the artist to begin with, and this follows the rules of an Indie music video. Again, it is dark all around the artist's face. As the music video progresses it pans out, to a close up of the artist's face, while the beat is building up. The beat soon kicks in and the music video changes and adapts to this beat and we see band performance clips and hand held camera shots, which again follow Indie music video codes and conventions. It features different shots of the bandmates and some of the shots feature links with the beat. When the song decreases in speed of beat, the video turns once again to a calm state, only to change when the beat kicks in again. Overall the music video features a dark atmosphere, dark colours, performance clips, along with a small bit of a narrative side to it.