Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Music Video - Redundancy/Entropy

'Bullets' -TUNNG


This music video conveys a high level of entropy as the entire music video is based around a large collection of unusual objects (such as rubber ducks and talking pineapples) glued together and flying towards the sun, and doesn't relate to the song at all. This is not a typical feature included in every music video and there are aspects of this video I haven't seen before included in music video's and there for it has an element of unpredictability.

However there is a level of redundancy portrayed in this video as the band is shown projected on screens performing the actual song. There is also a shot where an acoustic guitar is showed being played by an arm and playing in time to the song the main riff.

'Ghosts' - Laura Marling

Similar to the video above this music video conveys a high level of entropy as the entire music video is created using animation and only certain parts of the video include the artist and her band members in real flesh, and even then only their heads are real and have been super-imposed onto animated cartoon bodies.


The video its self relates to the song and the lyrics and the animation is based around a grave yard and the idea of 'ghosts' which is the song title.
Although there are elements of entropy there are also elements of redundancy and this is shown through the shots of the band performing and playing and singing, although the shots themselves are conveyed in an entropic manner.

There are also some single shots of a piano and guitar being played by a skeletal hand.


Another example of a video using both humans and animation is another video of Laura Marling - 'My Manic and Me'

Blur - 'Song 2'


This music video has a high level of redundancy as the entire video is based around the band 'Blur' performing their song in a room. The idea of the band simply performing the song is a very predictable feature and very redundant. But there is a twist to the simple performing of the song for the video and the band members are seen one by one being thrown around the room and bouncing off the walls which adds a n entropic twist to it. A wind machine is also used towards the end of the song and dust and sand is blown into the band members, which again adds a less predictable twist to the video.