Music Video Analysis 1

Wonderboy By Tenacious D (Directed by Spike Jonze)


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This music video mainly focuses on the use of close up shots and a few mid rangs shots, I think this is to emphasise the fact that the song is really story like and to tell it they need a story teller so they use the close up shots to use Jack Black as the story teller.
As the story progresses mid shots are used more I think they do this to bring in more of the surrounding area to help tell the story, to show the audience where they are and what theyre doing. There are alot of pan shots in the clip to help show what the characters are doing, for example when Jack Black is walking in the snow the camera follows him to keep the focus on the "Story Teller", also when he is climbing the mountain the camera follows his feet moving up and his arms and hands climbign higher this might be a camera trick to fool ours eyes into thinking he is climbing or maybe to emphasis the tension in this at the fact he could fall.

The Mise en Scene in this music video is really good. The landscape and scene is amazing, where they are looks as though they are in the mountains in a Lord Of The Rings movie ( New Zealand ) I don't know if they had shot it there but they must have had a big budget to make this video. When jack black reaches the top of a mountain you see in the distance in front of him more mountains and with him in his costume and the scenary it creates a powerful aura especially with the music mixed with it. The props and costumes they have suit the era that they are trying to capture. The sword and the guitar seem to fit the same time era, if I am not mistaken the guitar is a lute.

I particularly like the editing in this video. They use a lot of fades and quick cut shots to emphasis the emotion and speed of what is going on through the story. They use quick shots near the end when Jack Black goes into the cave and meets the "Hydra" and fights it, the quick cuts show rage and anger in the scene and also show the fear in Jack Black through this. The fade shots are very useful when there are "inspirational" parts of the story, the fade shots include Jack Black slightly transparent with the mountains and snow in the background. The raw power of the mountains size mixed with Jack Black's powerful voice makes this part of the story awe inspiriing.