Fall Out Boy: I Don’t Care (Shot count)

In this music video there are 185 shots approx.

There are plenty of MEAT shots in this video and the MEAT shots of this music video focus on the whole band rather than just the singer as it follows them around showing them doing annoying things around town and also showing them performing the song on a stage in front of a crowd. This video is unusual to other music videos as most videos tend to focus on one band member for the most parts and have bits and spots of the other members some where in the video, but Fall Out Boys I Don’t Care video gives each band member the same amount of screen time throughout the video.

With the song going at a relatively fast pace the shots move quickly and is edited seamlessly between one shot to the other. The pace of the editing and shots match the song perfectly as they fit with the tempo of the song switching between shots as quick as the beat is in the song.

There are many different types of shots used throughout the video, example of some of the shots used are tilts, pans, close ups and medium shots. All the shots are used to keep up with the tempo of the song and they do keep up well with the tempo as there are many of them shown and they switch from one type of shot to the next quickly so as to match the tempo. The shots also link well together showing the mix of the narrative that links with the words of the song and the performance of the band singing the song.

We can see clearly that the video is an illustration as it puts the point and meaning of the song across so well. The point of the video is to show that the band and also the people watching the video shouldn’t care what anyone thinks about them as the lyrics point out “I don’t care what you think as long as it is about me”. The video is very comedic as it shows the band performing there antics around LA much to the annoyance of the residents but it perfectly demonstrates the meaning behind the lyrics as the are doing anything they can to annoy anyone and not caring what they think of the in the process.

Album cover analysis: Chosen covers

Album cover analysis

The typical features of an album cover are a way for the consumer to identify the contents of the music product and used as an identifiable image for people so they know what band or artist the album belongs to and in being able to recognise this from the cover art they can then make a decision about whether to buy the product or not. Another feature of an album cover could be the band or the “MEAT” on the front and this helps to sell the album, as again it is instantaneously recognizable. All of my chosen album covers that I am analysing have the same feature and that is of an identifiable image. The Fall Out Boy album has a person in a bear costume carrying a bear on their shoulders and fans of the band would recognise the cover immediately, the All American Rejects cover has the band themselves on it as well as the bands logo which is instantly recognisable by fans, the Gorillaz cover has the cartoon characters of the band on and again that would be an identifiable image, finally the Black Eyed Peas cover and the BloodHound Gang cover are identifiable as it has the name of the band on as well as and image that doesn’t specifically have anything to do with the band or album on it.

3 of the 5 album cover do not depict the band members on them and this shows that they can be categorised as bands that do not need the appearance of an artist to sell their product whereas the other two albums the show the band members can be categorised as bands that may need to show the artist to get sales but that does not mean that they put the image of the band on the cover in this case as the band may have been put on as an identifiable image for fans to easily recognise or they may simply have just preferred to put the band on anyway.

The purposes of these album covers are mainly for sales. Other functions can be to promote the band and act as a primary image for fans/consumers to recognize.

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