Music Video Analysis 2

The Wombats- Kill The Director

Artist: The Wombats

Track: Kill The Director

The video for ‘Kill The Director’ begins with an establishing shot of a market place, which is quickly taken up by the back of a males head who is looking ahead. The shot then changes as he begins to walk down the market, looking at several different stalls. These shots are mostly taken from the side of the characters, which has been done so the main focus is on the male who is walking down the market street.

The performance in this video is intertwined with the narrative throughout. The male who begins the video walking down the market street sings the lyrics to the song, and is soon joined by the other band members playing the drums and bass guitar. To lead into the chorus, during the bridge of the song, an eye line match shot is used showing the male picking up a guitar. This suggests to the audience that the male is the lead singer of the band, and not just an actor.

Instead of panning the camera at one side of the lead singer, the camera angles begin to vary during the chorus. A close up of the lead singer of The Wombats is the most regularly used, while the other shots are mainly the usual expected band performance angles, i.e. close up of guitars/ drums etc. The lighting used at the beginning of this video is bright and sun lit, to represent the light hearted boppy style of the song. This changes towards the end of the video, much like the video for ‘Back Down South’.  This is a clever convention I may use in my music video, as I like the idea of a weather and lighting change in my video because it makes it more interesting for the audience.

There are several relations to the title of the song throughout this video. Firstly, the marketplace is full of males who are wearing shirts with jumpers tied round their necks, a stereotypical fashion sense of directors. Towards the end of the video, it changes to slow motion and shows several different shots of paint exploding on the males shirts and them collapsing, simulating them being shot. This has been done to relate to the title of the track.