Analysis of music video

Artist: Paramore

Song: Ignorance

Genre: Rock

Locations: The location of this music video is in a small room. Surrounding is dark and gloomy throughout most of the music

Costumes:

Artists: as characters –The band all wear casual clothing (t-shirts, jeans,.) it is all black which can connote that if they aren’t bad, something bad is about to happen to them. Also with their genre and audience, black is a very popular colour.

Storyline:
The video begins with the girl being singled out and ignored by other members of the band. She shines a light bulb that is hanging by a wire, directly in their faces, whilst describing how they ignore her and treat her like just another stranger in the lyrics. The cramped and bare setting emphasizes the inescapable, rising tensions between the band members. The video is intercutted with clips of the band performing in a cramped small room, that appears to be a closet. The performance itself.
Style:

Jump cuts – This skips the movement of the character to further along the sequence and back. However mostly set in a small room.

Fast cutting – used during the climax of the music, this fast cutting between different shots literally moves at less than a second and flashes up images that, almost like a montage and There are many extreme closeups used to emphasize the emotions of the character.

Pausing the music – In certain points of the music video, the music stops and a scene happens that throws the audience off. This, whilst working with all the other effects, forces the audience to remain on the edge of their seats.