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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sound-Image and Image-Image Relationships
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kXYiU_JCYtU
Music Videos have a tough job between grabbing the artists’ audiences’ attention as well as bringing forth a new and innovative image that correlates with what
would be expressed through the song. Linkin Park’s Numb provides a great
interaction between sound and image, as well as, image and image. The editing
within the video played a central role of understanding the message that lied
within the song.
In the beginning of the video, the audience sees a teenager looking off, standing by
herself in a huge environment. As she begins to stare off into a new direction,
we see nothing but buildings and then it cuts to the band. The cut proceeds to
her being in class when Chester (the singer) says: “tired of being what you
want me to be”. The teacher is lecturing to the students and she is just
drawing in her notebook which gets interrupted by the teacher hitting a stick
on her desk. When Chester sings, “I become so numb”, the speed between her
reality and actual reality changes. The students, through editing, zoom out of
the classroom leaving her alone looking at her drawing. This happens again when
she trips on the floor and everyone zooms past her. The situation repeats one
more time when she goes home and Chester sings, “can’t you see that you’re
smothering me, holding too tightly, afraid to lose control”, the teen is
sitting down staring off to space while the mother is fixing everything in the
kitchen in hyper speed, and then the mother sits down and yells at her. She
looks alone in the video and the hyper speed shows how unconnected she is to
the world around her.
Throughout the video, the teenager is wearing black, white, and grays. She’s mixed in a world of light and color, in a world that doesn’t notice her unless they are
scolding or being repulsed by her. The shots between the teenager and the band
are equally short except for the end. At the climax where Chester sings the
phrase “I become so numb”, the teenager is full of anguish, she just thrusts
her paint brush all over the page. Chester and his band mate keep singing, “I
become so numb, tired of being what you want me to be”. This scene only shows
the band and them pouring their soul out into the music. Then the teenager runs
into the dark church that they were singing in only to find no one there.
Without the cutting into the girl’s life, the video may not have been as strong as it
was. The ending, in which the female runs to the church where the band was
playing, unites both worlds. Showing the empty space when she arrives (an extra
shot was made) increases the notion of her being alone.
Music Videos have a tough job between grabbing the artists’ audiences’ attention as well as bringing forth a new and innovative image that correlates with what
would be expressed through the song. Linkin Park’s Numb provides a great
interaction between sound and image, as well as, image and image. The editing
within the video played a central role of understanding the message that lied
within the song.
In the beginning of the video, the audience sees a teenager looking off, standing by
herself in a huge environment. As she begins to stare off into a new direction,
we see nothing but buildings and then it cuts to the band. The cut proceeds to
her being in class when Chester (the singer) says: “tired of being what you
want me to be”. The teacher is lecturing to the students and she is just
drawing in her notebook which gets interrupted by the teacher hitting a stick
on her desk. When Chester sings, “I become so numb”, the speed between her
reality and actual reality changes. The students, through editing, zoom out of
the classroom leaving her alone looking at her drawing. This happens again when
she trips on the floor and everyone zooms past her. The situation repeats one
more time when she goes home and Chester sings, “can’t you see that you’re
smothering me, holding too tightly, afraid to lose control”, the teen is
sitting down staring off to space while the mother is fixing everything in the
kitchen in hyper speed, and then the mother sits down and yells at her. She
looks alone in the video and the hyper speed shows how unconnected she is to
the world around her.
Throughout the video, the teenager is wearing black, white, and grays. She’s mixed in a world of light and color, in a world that doesn’t notice her unless they are
scolding or being repulsed by her. The shots between the teenager and the band
are equally short except for the end. At the climax where Chester sings the
phrase “I become so numb”, the teenager is full of anguish, she just thrusts
her paint brush all over the page. Chester and his band mate keep singing, “I
become so numb, tired of being what you want me to be”. This scene only shows
the band and them pouring their soul out into the music. Then the teenager runs
into the dark church that they were singing in only to find no one there.
Without the cutting into the girl’s life, the video may not have been as strong as it
was. The ending, in which the female runs to the church where the band was
playing, unites both worlds. Showing the empty space when she arrives (an extra
shot was made) increases the notion of her being alone.
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