Analyis of Bon Iver video and two other videos of the same genre.

tBon Iver-the Wolves (act one and two)



Bon Iver only has one official music video for the song The Wolves (Act I and II).
So I am going to Analise that video. In the video, there isn't a narrative structure or footage of the band playing or performing. The Music Video has been shot in a forest. I don't think there is anything in the video which relates to the lyrics. I am assuming that the forest in which it is filmed in, is the same place where the album was recorded. I don't think the music video has any particular mood, the and video are neutral in my opinion. Some of the shots used in the video are almost like still images as the camera doesn't move a lot, the shots don't show a lot either. A lot of the footage used is almost amateur in the style it has been filmed. Shots used are: Medium shots, long shots, extreme close ups, close ups and wide shots. Angles used are mid angles, low and high. From about 3:52 to 4:14 the editing is a lot faster and sharper from scene to scene to the rest of video, it seems to be in sequence to the music.


City & Colour-Waiting.


In this video, it shows the band, playing and singing to the song "waiting". The song is about becoming depressed and how people sometimes forget who important and short life is. It has been edited into black and white, I think this has been done to reinforce the lyrics about depression. it shows Dallas Green, who writes all of the music, and is also named after himself but not obviously, Dallas is state in America and his last name, green, is a colour, playing different instruments from acoustic guitar which is the rhythm, electric guitar which is the lead and the piano. for the first 10 seconds the camera is on a stand of some kind pointing down and framing Dallas Green on the right side of it, this shot is a medium shot of him. The following shot is of the piano he later uses. Within the mise en scene, guitars that aren't even used and amps are in the shot. single shots of the instruments make a montage. During the editing process, from the light bulbs and lights, a line of the light has been dragged in the direction the camera is moving. The first time you see this happen is 1:39 into the video, you also see it again at 2:16 but just as its leaving the framing, the drummer hits the drum kit which then makes the light line move, which I think it looks like a heart rate monitor. you see it a few more times,but at 3:02, Dallas Green is stood in the centre of four light monitors which then light lines seem to grow out of them, then making what looks like a piece of unwritten classical music notation.

Jack Johnson-Breakdown


This song is about stopping and realising what is around that you wouldn't normally see otherwise, taking in and noticing real beauty in your surroundings. In the video it shows Jack Johnson doing the things he love, which are surfboarding and music and shows other scenes recorded which weren't perhaps recorded for the music video, but still works well. Camera shots used are long shots, close ups, medium shots, extreme long shots,There is no narrative structure to the video. most of the footage has been filmed on location of Pichilemu, Chilean which is a famous area for surfers.