Radiohead- Street Spirit

Today we looked at a music video by Radiohead to the song 'Street Spirit'. It is an indie rock song and this can be identified in the video. We listened to the song for a minute without watching the video and then gave our feedback and analysis of it. We talked about what we thought of it as a class and said it was quite weird, slow, expressed a dark emotion and portrayed a star image of the lead singer Tom York.
Andrew Goodwin suggests relating the visuals to the lyrics in a music video. This has been done in this video because the lyrics are 'fading out' and there are fade transitions done through the editing stage. There are also overlaying of shots which makes it look eerie. There is strange artistic imagery in this video which has no obvious link to the music. This relates to the band because they see themselves as 'artists' in the creative sense not just in terms of being musicians. There is some performance but mostly narrative in this video but it is not ordered and is quite minimal.
The pace of the song and video is slow so there is not as many cuts as in mainstream pop videos. There is slow motion in a lot of this video and the camera lingers on some shots.
There are special effects in this video which all add to the atmosphere of the indie rock genre. These include slow motion, black and white, flashes, split screen, people jumping higher than natural and in one shot Tom York's arm has been edited off.
To comply with star image Tom York is positioned in the foreground to make him look bigger and he is also framed central. Camera angles in this video mostly include medium shots, close ups and long shots. The  camera movement is quite still which makes the video feel even slower, especially on the shots using slow motion.
Mise en scene- They are wearing non-smart clothes with no colour (due to it being in black in white) and they have spiky/scruffy hair (not mainstream). This shows they care more about the message the art is portraying through their music and videos and less about self-image. The video is set in an isolated caravan park which looks like it is in America. Radiohead is a British band and being in the States portrays they are  successful because they are international.

This is the band Radiohead. Only the lead singer Tom York can be identified in the music video. The other members of the band are featured in the video but only in the background so you cnnot tell who they are.