Literal Videos

We had a lesson spent watching and discussing literal videos on youtube. These videos replace a songs lyrics with descriptions of the action happening in the video. Some examples that we watched included Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean', James Blunt's 'Beautiful' and Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZP-O88skY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOlI5Qiq-9g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovEDhFfgdOo

The links for these videos are above in respective order.

These music videos, which became famous in 2008, generally do use a lot of media terminology for shots which are in the music video, things that a usual audience for the video wouldn't notice. Furthermore the lyrics focus upon the unusual and odd things that occur in the music videos. For example in Billie Jean, lyrics focus upon the cat and the lighting up of different objects such as the lamp post and pavement.