RadioHead- No Surprises

 

 

RadioHead-No surprises

 

How goodwins theory applies to this video

 

we see a link between the music and the visuals as the music sounds very tranquil and soft and it its seems quite lulling and as we listen to the song we see water rising up slowly and a man slowly drowning. People have said that drowing is supposed to be one of the most peaceful ways to die because of how overwhelming and yet beautiful water can be. There is also a slight link between the lyrics and the visuals as he sings in the chorus 'No alarms and no surprises' and throughout the video we see just the one shot and after a while we expect something different to happen but we see no 'surprises' making this video unique and stand out.

             There is also a slight use of voyeurism as the artist is looking through the glass straight at the viewers to create the notion of looking

straight at veiwers and so viewers can feel a direct more personal connection with the artist and also the song.

 

John Stewart theory

 

The john stewart theory applies to this video because of the constant highkey lighting advertising the artists face and making him seem more appealing and angelic in the video. A constant close up in also used to create focus of attention on his face and this is very daring and veiwers will be able to see the whole of his face and be able to see his every movement and feature.

 

Mise en scene: we see the artist has his head in a glass bowl prop and this could maybe be a visual representation of how he feels iscolated whilst he works in his 'job that slowly kills him'. He seems to be wearing a blank facial expression and thats all we see and this can also allow veiwers to empathise with the artist as he sings about his observations of the people around him being miserable. It also allows the song to have deeper meaning as we see how it personally affects the artist.  The lighting within the scene changes from low key to high key to show gradual change and highlight the artists face alot more during the main part of the video.

 

Camera angles and movement: There is no camera movement within this video making it very unique and also makes me video seem very steady and allows the steady music to become a focus point instead of being completely blown out of proportion because of an excentric music video. Throughout the whole of the video however we just have the close up used throughout the whole of the video. This may seem very confronting at first however as the video develops we recognise the personal alter ego of the close up and become emotionally attached to the song and the artist because we can see all of the emotion shown in the artists face and with this well sad song we realise this real use of the close up in this video is to reflect the depth of depression in this song.

 

Editing: There seems to be no obvious editing within the whole of this music video as in no fancy pants visual effects used or any scene transitions or CGI used. However this whole video was taken using just one shot. meaning there were no transistions needed because there were no different shots used. This would have made the video exstremely difficult to film as the shot would have to be perfecct the whole way through and no mistakes could be made and also the underwater stunt would have also have increased the difficulty filming. This can also back up his lyrics as he sings 'No alarms and no surprises'. He is showing you a straight forward shot which seems to viewers very simple and easy to create showing no implications of change. Its simply just him singing about how misrerable life is.

                Another slight bit of editing i found was the lyrics of his song appeasring on the inside of his bowl and rising up almost like a script. I especially like this element of the video as he sings the lyrics 'bring down the goverment they dont speak for us' because its almost like he ios just reading the script saying what he is being told to say almost like a newsreader and this shows how little control we have as people to what is going on around us involving the goverment.