The Music video 'Grapevine Fires' by Death Cab fot Cutie demonstrates a number of characteristics and conventions that can be understood using Andrew Goodwin's framework.
The video of the song is animated and created by Walter Robot. It features a semi-literal interpretation of the lyrics by showing a wildfire and its effect on the lives of the people in the video.There is an illustrative and implying relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, for instance,the lyrics ' the wake up call to a rented room, sounded like an alarm of impeding doom.To warn us it's only a matter of time...'. The call felt like it was bringing tragedy with it; it was a warning for something that would come in time. This part of the lyrics is symmetrically played at the moment when the fire alarms sounds.Subjectively the singer introduces the viewer to a new scene where the tragedy is dramatically more intense creating a connection between the lyrics and the image. It merges two different stories (The one told by the lyrics and the other by the visuals of the music video) creating a mirror effect between them.
The video of the song is animated and created by Walter Robot. It features a semi-literal interpretation of the lyrics by showing a wildfire and its effect on the lives of the people in the video.There is an illustrative and implying relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, for instance,the lyrics ' the wake up call to a rented room, sounded like an alarm of impeding doom.To warn us it's only a matter of time...'. The call felt like it was bringing tragedy with it; it was a warning for something that would come in time. This part of the lyrics is symmetrically played at the moment when the fire alarms sounds.Subjectively the singer introduces the viewer to a new scene where the tragedy is dramatically more intense creating a connection between the lyrics and the image. It merges two different stories (The one told by the lyrics and the other by the visuals of the music video) creating a mirror effect between them.
We can also find more acute examples within the same theory that enforce directly the lyrics. As the the chorus is repeated 'Before we all burn...' the scene is filled with fire , playing with the understanding that everything is made of paper. Thus this phrase becomes the representation of the fire and presents to the viewer the focus of the tragedy and demonstrates the power that the lyrics hold onto the visuals.
Next Goodwin's supported theory involves music and video. These keep a strong relationship that is sometimes contradicted. The music starts and the video follows, the scenes are cut following the beat of the song as they are telling a story. The anomaly is when the instruments and beat lower the intensity to emphasise the visuals of the death of the main's character's bother's partner to let the viewers focus on the tragedy of the moment and be moved by it. After that scene the music builds up and the video returns to follow a mirrored structure that shared with the music before.
'There is always an inter-textual reference (to films,TV,programmes etc...)'
First visual reference in the video occurs in min 1:12, when the band members make a cameo appearance loading a van. Another aural reference is found in the drumbeat of the song which is modelled after "Purdie Shuffle" although drummer Jason McGerr says it is more of emulation, as opposed to a replication, of the famous drum pattern.
Grapevine Fires is both a literal story of escaping a wildfire in California, and a metaphor for the ability of love to overwhelm the direst of circumstances, including the sweeping decimation of death and nothingness.While our lives are finite, and will inevitably be swept away like grapevine in a fire, our time is made valuable by being with those we love, and dancing amid the despair.
'There is always an inter-textual reference (to films,TV,programmes etc...)'
First visual reference in the video occurs in min 1:12, when the band members make a cameo appearance loading a van. Another aural reference is found in the drumbeat of the song which is modelled after "Purdie Shuffle" although drummer Jason McGerr says it is more of emulation, as opposed to a replication, of the famous drum pattern.
Grapevine Fires is both a literal story of escaping a wildfire in California, and a metaphor for the ability of love to overwhelm the direst of circumstances, including the sweeping decimation of death and nothingness.While our lives are finite, and will inevitably be swept away like grapevine in a fire, our time is made valuable by being with those we love, and dancing amid the despair.
This is a positive start - para 2 is particularly detailed and well thought out. Make sure you refer explicitly to Goodwin in every paragraph. You also need to include screenshots to illustrate the point you're making.
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