Analysis of Band

The Kooks; She moves in her own way

The kooks are a band of four males in their early twenties. Their video contemplates on their personality and their interests, for example, throughout the video they are consistently travelling around different places, then in some parts they are sat round a water fountain singing and playing their guitars. Throughout their video there are loads of busy shots where there are so many shots, for example, a particular shot was where they are in a hotel and they are all doing different things. This is to show their different personalities.

There music video consists of many wide shots where they fit in a great amount of detail. An example would be the shot of their tour bus and you can see most of the street and the people walking about. Another example would be when all the members of the band are sat on the top of the sign of a building singing and playing their instruments. However they also use a fair amount of close up shots, for example of each of their faces. I feel that this camera work was organized for the female gaze, in hope that when a female saw their faces it would attract them to watch the video.

There is not much to analyse on the lighting except that it is just soft but quite dark at time through the whole of the video. I feel that this sort of lighting is stereotypical of the Indie music video genre. The video looks as though it was made to look old style, in comparison to pop video which consist of bold and bright lighting.

In terms of the use of camera, some times to camera would be professionally used, with ordinary shots, then in some cases it would be shooting as it they were actually filming it them selves without the professional help. The camera is unsteady, but it gives the video a different effect, then the usual high quality videos. I feel that this Indies video is a Performance and a Narrative piece. It includes them playing on their instruments, as the performance part and as for the narrative we see many shots which appears to be them travelling and doing their own thing, however they are not performing which gives me the conclusion that it is in fact a narrative performance video rather than just a performance video.