Textual Analysis Of Drum & Bass Music Video

Name of track: Original Nuttah
Artist/director: UK Apache & Shy FX

Features

Genre Characteristics

• very fast dancing- lots of women dancing around
• man in front of the camera, miming, and using his hands as a ‘way of dancing’- using hand and arm gestures
• 0.32 minutes

What is the relationship between the lyrics and visuals?

• miming the words in the song in front of the camera
• 0.38 minutes

What is the relationship between the music and visuals?

• fast music and fast lyrics
• fast dancing to compliment the speed of the music and lyrics
• fast-pace editing, fast shot changes, and the length of the shots, themselves, are not very long
• 1.20 minutes

Are there close-ups of the artist and star image motifs?

• camera very low-down
• the artist is crouching down throughout- to look into the camera. this ranges from a medium to a long shot
• 0.20 minutes

Is there reference to the notion of looking?

• there isn't reference to the notion of looking as such; however, there are women dressed in a way that would appeal sexually encouraging, for example, in very short shorts etc.
• this can be interpreted as provocative
• 1.26 minutes

Is it performance-based, narrative-based or concept-based? How much of each?

• performance-based only
• there is only singing and dancing in the video- there is no narrative
• 1.11 minutes

Evaluation of analysis

After analysing a music video for this particular genre of music, I can conclude that this type of song is not befitting my groups' interests or abilities.