Monday, February 13, 2012

Taxonomy of a Music Video

COMM 333 - Blogg 3





Code Visualized - Meek Mill & Rick Ross - Tupac Back


Lyrics-Illustration: The visual track telling the story of the lyrics.
Yes, what was accuring in the video goes along, and harmonizes with the lyrics. The story is about one singer who in the video is a suspect that catches hard time and gets sent to prison until a friend (which is another singer in the song) bails him out. The plot in the video basically uses the basic biblical storytelling structure expect it skips the beginning part about grace and life being good. The video starts out with the second part of the storytelling structure about falling from grace. In the "falling from grace" part the singer is in prison. The second half of the video is the part about "returning to grace" and the singer is bailed out of prison by his friend which is the other singer in the video.

Lyrics-Amplification: The track's visual amplifying and giving more or new meaning to the lyrics
Yes, in the beginning and in majority of the scenes you would shake and vibrate to the bass of the song. When certain words or phrases were said the performers in the video would make a certain gesture in a scene that is colored and lit a certain way to complement that certain line, word or phrase that was or is being said in the lyrics. 

Lyrics-Disjecture: Contrast in the lyrics and the video
To an extend there was some contrast because part of the chorus says "tupac's back," on the contrary he is not back because Tupac Amaru Shakur died on 9/13/96. The scenes in the chorus showed clips of Tupac. So there is contracts with the lyric in some parts of the video but mostly the video goes withe the lyrics.

Music-Illustration: Visual having a tempo and rhythm that goes with music
Yes it does.

Music-Amplification: The video enhancing the meaning of the song. 
Yes, but it could have enhanced it more if Tupac was actually in the video.

Music-Disjecture: No

Performance-Illustration: Yes

Performance-Amplification: Yes

Performance-Dijecture: No



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