30 Seconds To Mars music video for “Kings
And Queens” shows a number of ways on how both the artists image and the
meaning of the song are portrayed in the video, through star image, and the
textual elements of MISE EN SCENE Camera Shots and Editing.
The format the for “Kings And Queens”
is a mixture of both performance with the band playing and performing the song
throughout the video which helps promote their image of being organic and
showing the originality star image quality. The video also uses a narrative
structure showing a huge bike ride through the city of Los angels at dusk and
night-time.
The video shows of a number of unique
bikes from penny farthings to BMX’s. The video was directed by the
bands lead singer Jared Leto and this shows off their creativity star image.
This Music video for “Kings And Queens”
helps promote Many of 30 Seconds To Mars’ star image qualities.
Firstly one of 30 Seconds To Mars’ star image qualities is originality. this is
shown in the video narrative has never been seen or look similar to any
other video done before, also like most other 30 Seconds To Mars music videos,
they are made into very short films that have a strong narrative with small
bits of performance mixed in.
For example “Kings And Queens” is named “The Ride
based on The song Kings And Queens” in the opening credits of the music video. Another star image quality shown off in
this music video is their creativity, this is shown again in the narrative of
the video which is totally unique with the idea of a mass bike ride and also
with the vast range of bikes used it really shows of how creative they are in
their music videos.
In “Kings And Queens” the video is very
long shot oriented, but also includes close ups, medium shots, panning and
tracking shots to show off different meanings in the songs and help create and
help audiences adhere to their star image qualities.
Long
Shots
Firstly in this music video the majority
of the camera shots are long shots, these are focused mainly of the setting of
the video being Los Angeles at night time. other longs shots include showing
the band playing on a rooftop, this helps show off their image of being organic
by playing their own instruments and adhering to their star image of having
talent. Also long shots in the video show off the group of people who are
taking part in the bike ride in the video and again adheres to the bands
creative and originality star image quality due to how unique the narrative is.
Close Up’s
Close Up shots are also commonly used
throughout in the video, but are mainly used on Jared Leto who is the lead
singer of the band singing the lyrics of the songs in time with the music. this
helps strengthen their organic image. Other close up’s used mainly show the
faces of many of the bike riders in the video.
Medium,
Medium Close Up & Medium Long Shots
The Majority of The Medium category shots
are again shown on the band when playing their respective instruments and
singing the lyrics which shows their organic image
Visual
matches
Due to the unique narrative to this video
there are not many lyrical matches with visual, but during the song when the
lyrics “we were the victims of ourselves” a High angle shot typically used when
showing someone's
vulnerability
is shown onto the cyclists when going in a circle, it also foreshadows the end
of the video as the final shot is them riding to the end of the pier and is cut
off leading to an ambiguous ending of weather they
survived or not
MISE
EN SCENE
The MISE EN SCENE in this video help to
strengthen their star image qualities and the bands overall image. First of all
in the video the members of the band wear their own casual clothing, which
shows off their organic approach by not wearing costumes that a synthetic
artist would wear.
EDITING
Finally in “Kings And Queens” there isn't
much special effects on the video which shows off their organic approach in
being naturalistic along with the whole filming and setting being filmed in LA
and not using a green screen.
In terms of pace of editing the pace follows
the tempo of song throughout, for example when the song is at a slow pace the
cuts between clips are spaced out, but when the pace increased the cuts came
much faster.
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