Anaylsis of a music video

Panic! at the Disco - Ballard of Mona Lisa
genre: Alternative rock

genre characteristics

• camera: lots of close ups used of the lead singer and the instruments and loads of long shots used to show whole band.
• Editing: there are always cuts between the performance and narrative such as everytime the drummers beat comes in it cuts to an image of him.
• Mise - en - scene: unique costumes for the band which are old fashioned and mainly in very neutral colours creams, blacks, browns and white.
• dark low key lighting is used.

lyrics and visuals

• when stating rules such as rule 1 open all windows we see a girl cross to the window and open it.

music and visuals

• when the chrous comes in there are a lot of close ups of the lead singer and a lot of fast paced editing such as jump cuts.

close ups and motifs

• motif: always use very old fashioned style locations and videos.
• motif: use same scenery from older video before it changes
• close ups of artist and band

notion of looking and voyeursic treatment of women

• no voyeuristic views of women
• notion of looking when the door opens and we get the view that the audience are looking through the door to all the people talking inside.