AS Media Studies Looking at Media Language

Analysing Music Videos

You will be assigned a technique to try and spot in two music videos that you will be
shown in class.

Artist/ group
name
Jump cuts

Slow motion

Obvious edits

Camera moving
in time with
music

Artist making
eye contact
with the
camera

Repeated shots
of the
artist/performe
r

How many base

tracks can you
spot?

Editing in time
with beat of
song

Who is the audience for these videos and why?

Do the videos appear generically conventional or are they playing with genre
conventions?