Analysis of a Music Video

I'm going to analyse a music video by called Spanish Sahara by Foals. The genre of thing song alternative. The conventions of this genre tends to be a male artists representing the song. The characters within this genre tends to wear smart/causal clothes. The setting of this genre can vary, depending on the song and how it's represented. This song follow the conventions of this genre since there is a male artist representing the song and he's dressed in smart/casual clothing.

Narrative:

The performance of this song is the artist lip syncing and the footage of the artist. The concept of this music video involves the artist in an cold environment dragging around a bag with him with an unknown object side. The artists drags the object to an area loaded with logs. He then sets the logs with the object on fire.


The editing in this music videos fit the beat of the song. The beat of these songs is very slow and the editing is very slow paced. When the best gradually starts to get faster, so does the pace of the editing.



The first line in this song is "So I walk into the haze". The song actually start with this image. The first image is an establishing shot, showing the setting of the music video and it represents the first line of the song.Repetition of the lines "Forget the horror here. It's future rust and it's future dust" in the song is represented through the fire in a metaphorical form.


The character in this music video appears to be very serious and gives very little expression. This visual presenting the song appears to be serious. No iconography or record company was shown during this music which is unusual since a majority of music video shows the production company.

There is only was person shown, meaning that all the focus is on him and what he's doing.

The music video: