Blog Post 28

In my previous blog post I talked about common terms used in film and how they can be reflected into every day music video's. The terms included Auteur, Diegesis, Editing, Flashback and Flashforward, Focus, Genre, Mis-en-scene, and the difference between a shot and a scene. This week the class and I watched many more videos and continued to see these terms come into play for each video. For Auteur, or the "author" of the video, the song Swimming Pool by Kendrick Lamar. Just by listening to song and not watching the video or the background of the artist, one would have no idea that the song is

about Lamar's struggle with alcoholism. For diegesis, in the music video, See You Again by Carrie Underwood, you say an obvious massage of both happiness with reuniting and also with the pain of losing, but full of hope of never begin gone forever. The colors throughout the film where warm and the film was made up of other people stories of living and losing, helping the watcher to get the feeling's the song has intended. Flashback's and Flashforward in music video's are pretty common in that there is always at least one throughout the videos. I Carrie Underwood's video for Just a Dream, we see the

flashback and flashforward begin used almost continually to help hint the audience into the meaning behind the song and the feelings that were felt and are going to be felt to the person that is in the song.
In the music video the best of Times by Sage Francis, we see Mis-en-scene begin used very well along with interesting focus and stylistic type of genre.  The mis-en-scene, or the still shots in the film that could tell a story, are plentiful in this music video with casket full of photo's scene throughout, referring to letting the past go. The focus through out the music video is great as well as in Sage Francis face continually goes in and out of focus with his background. The video is made is a stylistic genre, which means it does not tell a story. Although there are some story like elements to the video, most of the shots and scenes do not follow a direct story-like pattern.