Andrew Goodwin's theory of music videos - "Funny You Should Ask" by The Front Bottoms, and "Shiver" By Lucy Rose

The Front Bottoms - "Funny You Should Ask"

According to Wikipedia;

As we can see, the band's music itself is not genre specific - however, I will explore how the music video for "Funny You Should Ask" meets the generic conventions of a music video.

1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine in boy/girl band)


The first thing we see in the music video for "Funny You Should Ask" is a spider, crawling along the neck of the guitar - as a drum roll steadily increases in pace and volume - immediately there is a direct correlation between the music and visuals. Unusually for a music video however, a small director's credit is visible at the bottom left of the screen.

Furthering the link between audio and visuals - as the song is counted in - the camera cuts to the drummer (in time with the drum roll), who physically counts in the song. 

From here, when the song jumps from the introduction to the pre-verse - a shot revealing the band playing the song live (with a steady cut on every fourth bar of music). The next shot also shows the bond between the music and the visuals - as we see a midshot of the singer of the band begin to sing the lyrics.

The only part of the video 

Song Choice

I chose the song "Sarah Minor" to create a music video in the coursework. The track can be heard below and the lyrics follow.

And I know that there's friction
Between me and you,
I know that you're uncomfortable,
Believe me, I do.
I know that it's hard for you to tell me the truth.
But while we are doing so,
Sarah, I love you.

And though your skin's sheet white
And your arms carry scars.
Your hair isn't clean much,
Your lungs black with tar.
And god, you love to argue,
You can't play guitar.
But still, let me tell you
That I love who you are
Still let me tell you
That I love who you are.

Love, young love
I hope you are well
At least we now both
Have a story to tell
Young love, I feel
You know me better than most
In spite of real distance, we'll always be close,
In spite of real distance, we'll always be close.

Golden Brown was our soundtrack
A long time ago
We spent all our days in the lines
Outside shows
And I still remember this day,
A long time ago
I walked through the rain for you,
You said to "go home,"

Young love, young love
I hope you are well
At least we now both
Have a story to tell
Young love, I feel
You know me better than most
In spite of real distance, we'll always be close,
In spite of real distance, we'll always be close.

Introduction & Brief

The Brief for A2 media is to create:

"A promotional package for a new, debut artist that includes the debut CD album cover and a music promo video for the debut single. For those of you who want to add to the brief you may also complete any of the following three options:

• A website homepage for the band
• A cover for the album release on DVD
• A magazine advertisement for the DVD/album"

Over the course of the A2 course I hope to not only complete the brief, but also create a magazine advertisement for the DVD/album and a website for the band (website to be made on Tumblr, a social media, blogging site which allows for the sharing of posts and promotional material)