Alex Turner – Piledriver Waltz analysis

This video is concept-based, intimately following a young couple. This links thematically with voyeurism – looking in on what appears to be a home video from the 70’s. The video appears to have been shot with Super 8 cinefilm, giving a gritty and retro quality to the video – this links closely with the visuals – no clearly set up shots are included, simply two people walking around in one another’s company. The camera is often shaky, and the clips are mostly very long, sometimes cuts bearing no relevance to the music featured. The lyrics, likewise, appear to have no relevance on the actual video – all this furthers the idea that it is a personal, home made video, lending a very intimate feel to the video. There appears to be no form of narrative, just a selection of clips thrown together. The retro feel the video shows is a very common convention in indie music such as this. The clips are taken from the independent film Submarine, as is the song – this cross-media convergence is a very tactical way of promoting the music.


Inspired by this, we are going to pursue a concept-based video, possibly very similar, thematically, to this. We believe that this would be very suited to our video, as we are doing a song from a similar band in the same genre. However, the video is slightly dull – nothing is really left up to the audience to decipher, so we will look at a more ambiguous route.