I will be looking at Linkin’ Park’s ‘Crawling’ video in detail. The reason I have chosen to analyze this video in particular is because the general design and structure of the video is similar to the ideas that myself and my group have for our product. 

For example, our video will be fairly abstract. We are highly inspired by these images: 

All of these images are screenshots from the music video, ‘crawling’. They are all pretty abstract images, and most of the shots in the beginning section of the video are of objects, such as a desk, a music box, a dancing figure, water, a door handle, all not obviously relevant to the song, which initially gives off a abstract vibe, or as Goodwin would describe it, the visuals are contradicting the music and lyrics. 

On the other hand, the video is also representative of the lyrics.
The lyric “crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal, fear is how I fall, confusing what is real” is the chorus and is repeated multiple times in the song. These words are strongly reflected in the visuals.

“Crawling in my skin”. This could be interpreted in different ways. It could mean that the character in the video is trapped in her own mind set. But there are also times in the video when she is physically crawling across the floor, the picture to the left is example of this.

The line “these wounds they will not heal” is also reflected quite a lot in the video. An example would be when the subject (the woman) reveals that her arm has been beaten. This is shown in the image to the left. This is another example of when Goodwin suggested that the images can reflect the images in a music video.

The lyric “confusing what is real” is also reflected. You can see in the image above that the woman is looking at the lead singer of the band through what appears to be glass. She is trapped, ‘crawling in her skin’, and she cannot reach the singer. It is unobvious whether she is dreaming, or whether she is seeing him in real life, hence reflecting the lyric. The whole video could be a dream of hers, or she could really be crawling around, trapped within blue crystal, and looking at the band. But it all seems unrealistic, however, ‘unrealistic’, could be the theme that the band intended to portray in the video.

All in all, I find that this video is very reflective of the lyrics repeated in the song. We notice many examples that we can tell have been carefully thought out in the process of story boarding the video, of when the images directly reflect the music. But I noticed there was also examples where the images did not reflect the song. With the abstract images and shots that do not appear to be directly related to the song. I think with our music video that we will create for the song ‘Own little world’ by Celldweller, my group and I will use mainly abstract images. Such as shots of a gas mask, photo frames, snakes and pint glasses. This gives the audience the opportunity to interpret the video however they would like to. However, we will take an element of story into consideration. There will be a recurring theme of interrogation and pressure in our video. We will have shots of a man in a rundown interrogation room, and losing control. There will also be footage of the band playing live, and the audience forming ‘mosh pits’. (mosh pits could also be seen as another way to express anger and they will reflect the actions of the character in the video who is losing control).

We will be using narrative and obscurity in our final project.