Cage the elephant – Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked
Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked is a highly unusual music video with elements of performance and narrative. This would be ideal for our idea for our music video. We want a roughly equal percentage of band time and narrative acting time. This music video mainly showcases narrative but there are bits in the music video where the band performs and plays its instruments.
The video is about 3 minutes long which is ideal for my media analysis because that would be the ideal time for our piece, so it gives me a chance to look at what can be done within 3 minutes. At beginning the video starts off very slowly, this matches the tempo of the song at the beginning which is quite slow compared to bits later in the video, when the tempo is picked up we usually see the band performing showcasing their talent and how they are doing what you are hearing, this is a perfect idea for a media piece, because you get to see the narrative video of what they’re singing and then you see them perform. Sections in the video are often repeated, which matches the song, A’int No Rest for the Wicked, it repeats the idea that this ‘state’ won’t end until they close their eyes for good and give in, this accompanied with the mise en scene creates this idea of a wasteland where life is a misery and again works well with the lyrics to create this music video, this lyrics in this song match the visuals most of them time apart from when the chorus is repeated, this is when we see the band play, the song is also picked up at these points when its song and we see the band play, other times we see what the band is singing about.
The colours and lighting in the music video are also used to create this idea of a wasteland and Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked, the colours and special effects are all quite dull, grainy, such colours are mainly brown, yellow and the lighting is quite bright and reflective off the colours, again creating this idea of this wasteland they’re in. The special effects add another layer which is film grain filter creating an old style feel to the whole music video, the special effects are quite obviously done on a green screen, this is stands out a lot and we can see its quite obviously done to grab the audiences eye, it makes the video feel like an old movie where backgrounds would be quite obvious, creating the idea that the wasteland is cut off from modern life, it catches the viewers eye.
The camera angles and techniques and editing used in this video also relate and match the song, at the beginning of the song its starts off quite slow and you see the narrative side of the video, the camera angles and techniques used here also match this, when the songs tempo is down so is the speed of the editing, but the lyrics change this in some place and then so does the speed of the editing, when the singer sings faster the editing picks up faster and the camera movements are more rapid and wild.
This music video is narrative which lets the audience understand the song more, it allows them to see the band in a new way and it lets them see what the band is thinking while singing the song, this video can also be considered as a conception video due to the way it’s made and the way it’s filmed which makes it a fun and entertaining video to watch and view. It can be considered as a concept video because its mise en scene and lighting, because they are done the way they are it makes it seem very idealist and meant to be that way. The more concept the video the more is the more entertaining it is to watch because it has a deeper meaning and sometimes make the video more colourful and vibrant and changes the whole layout and idea of the video.
There is also another theme in this music video which is not so apparent but still links in with the wasteland idea, the video is about why people do what they do, the vidoes showcases people robbing the band and doing things to get money off them, the idea of the wasteland still comes in because it’s about how people get through life and the world they're in is just a desert with people trying to make their way.
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