Arctic Monkeys

About Arctic Monkeys

• Arctic Monkeys is an alternative rock band
formed in 2002, in the suburb of Sheffield.
• It is consisted of 4 members, who are,
Alex Turner ( lead vocals), Jamie Cook
( lead guitar), Nick O’Malley ( bass guitar ),
and Matt Helders ( drums).
 albums
• ‘whatever people say I am. and Nicholson
departure’, this was the bands 1st debut album. It
was released in 2006, this album sold 363,735 in
the first week, and became the fastest selling
album in UK chart history.
• There 2nd album came in 2007 and was called
‘favourite worst nightmare’, the band began to
pick up award, even in the US for ‘best new
artist in the US award’.
• There current album is ‘humbug’ and was
released in 2008/10.
 Arctic Monkeys- Leave Before
The Lights Come On
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEukS2YN9B8
• This is one of Arctic Monkeys song. There is a difference
in this song with all other indie music videos as it is all
narrative based.
• Most indie music videos that we have researched are
performance based, but this is narrative based and
includes no lip syncing at all.
• We thought this would be a great idea for us, as we
already had problems with casting finding a character so
we decided to not include no lip syncing in our video to
make it easier.
 Arctic Monkeys- Leave Before
The Lights Come On
• This song is about a lost girl who is attempting suicide half
heartedly, so she is not fully sure about it and wants to attract more
attention from the people walking beneath her by throwing her shoe
of as someone walks by. It shows the girl is wanting some forms of
care or love.
• Through out the whole video we see no lip syncing at all and is all
narrative based.
• Even though it has no lip syncing, us the audience still know what
the music video is about through the narration bit.
• This video has influenced with the making of our video as we
thought of making it fully narrative based with no lip syncing but at
the same time the audience will still know what it is about.
 Analysis of video
• Genre : alternative indie rock
• Lyrics and visuals : there is no match between lyrics and visuals.
• Camera shots: there where many different camera shots used, but
the main one was close up of the girl or the man, this is to show the
facial expression as she is attempting to commit suicide and this is
something serious so showing the expression informs the audience
feelings of the characters.
• Editing: as the camera shot changes to something else, the beat of
the music changes as well, e.g. when she holds the guys hands at
the top of the building, as soon as her hand touches the guys hand,
the beat changes.
• Costumes: the costumes used are casual clothing, with a shirt and
jeans for the man, and the lady Is wearing a blue top with jeans.
• Location: the main location is outside on the streets, and a café.