While She Sleeps - Our Courage, Our Cancer Deconstruction
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MUSIC VIDEO DECONSTRUCTIONS
While She Sleeps – Our Courage, Our Cancer
Type Of Music Video
Our Courage, Our Cancer is both performance-based and concept-based.
Genre Characteristics
The music video has the element of performance to it throughout, and this is common to a lot, if not all, Metalcore bands. Common instruments can be seen as well, such as the guitar, bass and drums. There is also a piano, which is quite unique in the genre.
Relationship Between Lyrics And Visuals
“My Inspiration”Seems to be
talking about a specific person, or
a person that symbolises a group i.e. War
heroes.
“We think of you with love”Shows a boy
hugging a man (Father and son presumably),
which is a sign of love.
Most of the lyrics have no direct
relationship with the visuals, the visuals just illustrate the
meaning of the song and the main theme;
life and death.
Relationship Between Music And Visuals
When music slows, so do the visuals: shots are longer and often in slow motion.
When the music is fast, and the guitar and drums kick in, the visuals accompany this: shots are shorter, the band move faster.
The video also demonstrates on beat editing:
- 0:42 – 0:45- 3:07 – 3:10
Close-Ups And Artist Motifs
These print screens also demonstrate this feature, as throughout the video there are close-ups of the band. A motif would be that the whole band are wearing black, and this does not change at any point during the video.
Reference To The Notion Of Looking
3:38
0:02
0:54
0:56
Reference To The Notion Of Looking
0:140:16
2:14 2:15
Reference To The Notion Of Looking
2:40 2:41
2:16
2:17
Intertextual References
The music video refers to war through images frequently.
Intertextual References
Life/Death is another reference, which also links to war.
Intertextual References
Rebellion/riots also seems to be another reference.
Goodwin’s Theory
Goodwin’s theory was that every music video will fulfil at least 4 of these features, but Our Courage, Our Cancer fulfils all of them even if it is only vaguely.