Andrew Goodwin

Andrew Goodwin is an Australian born operatic tenor. Goodwin spent years analysing music videos and put together a set of key features.

Features between Lyrics + Visuals

-Illustrating

-Amplifying

-Contradicting

Music + Visuals 

-Illustrating

-Amplifying

-Contradicting

-Cutting visuals in time to music

Music Videos generate genre conventions

-Stadium Performance

-Studio Performance

-Location

-Narrative

-Conceptual/Experimental 

Several close ups of the artist

-Artistic Branding

-Celebrity Culture

-Artistic Portrayal 

-Implications on looking good

Star Iconography

-Branding

-Style

-Brand Values

Looking + Voyeurism

-Nudity

-Exhibitionism

-Intimate Location

-Frame within a frame

Intertextuality 

-Other Music Videos

-Films

-TV Programmes

How To Analyse Music Videos

-Thought Beats - Where you see the sound

-Narrative + Performance 

-Relating visuals to song

-Technical aspects to a Music Video

Thought Beats

-To look at the music itself we must take into account the structure of the song.