Actual Music Videos

James Blunt-1973


This fits the genre by James Blunt walking down a street to a sad song like most of his other songs, and him looking back on old memories which he is sad about. The relationship between the lyrics and visuals, he singing about being in a club with a girl in 1973, and the video goes from old street to into a shop all colourful as it was in 1973 giving the feeling of warmth, and what it was like for him back then, which amplifies the lyrics to what it was actually like by using visuals too. The relationship between music and visuals is that is a slow quite sad song and the visuals look as if they have been slowed down, which is very effective to show it is a sad song and amplifies the effect of the sadness and slowness of the music in the background. James blunt always shows his face, and keeps the same amount of stubble in all of his videos, and the same scruffy hair, to keep his image the same and so the audience can realise who he actually is. Most of the shots are from in the shops in 1973 looking out at James Blunt singing like you are there looking at James singing, also there are shots from balcony's above James watching him walk down this dead street, as if you where there looking at him, maybe a bit voyeuristic of him. you also do get to see a good looking lady dance in a next to nothing on the breasts dress, which shows voyeurism of the female body too. This video has a little bit of intertextuality of the TV sitcom 'Friends', where they are always hanging in a coffee house, and in the video it cut to in a coffee house with lots of people inside, and he says "i will always be, in a club with you in 1973". which refers to 'Friends' when they are always in the coffee shop together.


Jason Mraz- I'm Yours


Chris Brown- With You

This is Chris Brown's 'With You', and like all his other videos, it is quite a heart felt song for a girl, which fits his genre of RnB. With him dancing in the street fits the RnB genre, with him dancing while getting his message through that he really likes this girl. The lyrics and visuals contradict each other because he is singing about being with a girl, and how she is his sweetheart and hes into her, but she isn't there with him to hear it. Though he could be singing it for her, and hoping she will hear it. With him dancing in the video, this amplifies what message he is trying to put across, showing he is in such a god mood about this girl, it makes him dance and sing when he thinks about her. The music and visuals go together well because it is a quite slow song, and the visuals are nice and slow, most shots are slowed down on him with things going faster in the background, so all focus is on Chris Brown. Cris Brown's record label must want a lot of close ups and mid shots of Chris singing and him doing some of his trademark dancing, which is very smooth and very entertaining to watch. Chris' dancing reoccurs in most of his videos creating a visual style for his videos, and it is expected of him to do his trademark dancing. In this video the cameras sense of "looking" is seen as you are a person who is with Chris, watching and listening to him singing for this girl.