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Intertextuality Within Music Videos

A good example of intertextuality is "Robbie Williams- Let Me Entertain You", with his influences stemming from the rock-legends "Kiss". The make up he wears within this video was associated greatly with the band and made them recognisable all over the world.

In "Dan Black's- Symphonies" he copies the start of some famous filmes dating from back in the 60's to the present day. An example of this is shown above.





The example below is from Eminem- Just Lose It;

The Nites- No Reason Lyrics

The Nites- No Reason Lyrics

Intro (instrumental)

I need a last show, yeah I wanna see the sun

Don’t wanna let it pass, don’t wanna walk when I can run

So many times I tried, and many times been wrong

Still everytime I tell myself, don’t you dare

Sell yourself a line your nothing more

And the face you wear, theres no reason why

It’s the way things fall

In a world full of questions

Don’t have to ask them all

You Just got to let it go sometimes, sometimes

Theres no reason here, that I can find

And im done with searching

Wanna close my eyes

Just gotta let it go sometimes, sometimes

I read the wrong book, I didn’t see the signs

I took a right hook, in old classical style

I took everything they had, still look them in the eyes

And everytime I tell myself

Don’t you dare

Sell yourself a line your nothing more

And the face you wear, theres no reason why

It’s the way things fall

In a world full of questions

Don’t have to ask them all

You Just got to let it go sometimes, sometimes

Theres no reason here, that I can find

And im done with searching

Wanna close my eyes

Just gotta let it go sometimes, sometimes

Talking in circles through the night

Im trying to find that something real, and right

Im chasing your shadows everywhere

For what its worth and how it feels

Theres no reason why

It’s the way things fall

In a world full of questions

Don’t have to ask them all

You Just got to let it go sometimes, sometimes

Theres no reason here, that I can find

And im done with searching

Wanna close my eyes

You just gotta let it go sometimes, sometimes

After using Wordle to present the data of favourite music genres, I felt it would be beneficial if I put the lyrics to "No Reason" and get a visual image of the words that appear most in the song. After seeing it visually it has helped spark more ideas for narrative and themes for the music video as the reoccurring words are more easily identified.
I then printed the Wordle to annotate with word meanings and ideas for some of the words, this was easier to do when the words aren’t in context as you don’t think of the idea from what was said before it to make the lyrics link with one another so it was a good idea to collect all different ideas. The ideas/meanings I have got for the following words were:

Reason: looking for substance and the answer to his questions

Eyes: wants to see something

Wanna: his desire to discover someone/something

Gotta: his need to discover someone/something

Find: he's searching for something

Let: hes willing to change/adapt

Searching: looking for someone/something to answer his questions or enrich his life

Within our music video, we will aim to create a video with a fairly strong narrative, but also incorporate certain shots and ideas that will leave it memorable in the brain for being a little different.

Our Roles

In my group there is 4 people;
Ryan Fleming- Actor/props
Jacob Ede- Actor/lighting
Amy Hale- Camera/director
Emma Phillips- Camera/director

Although giving eachother these specific jobs, we intend to take into account everyones opinions and ideas and welcome the idea of changing groups if someone is deemed to be better at a different job to what we decided they would do. Not only this, but we all intend to help towards the editing of the video.

The Nites- No Reason

The track we have chosen is by a band with a acoustic/pop/rock  genre from London, UK. We chose a band with this genre as it crosses the divide of music we have between the members of our group, and also as we believed we could easily mime and create a video that did the song justice from ideas we had gained just by listening to it a couple of times.

The Story of the band (according to them);

"The story of The Nites begins back in 2003, when a barman named Ant met a cleaner named Mike. One day, Anthony came home from work to get ready for a gig that night and found Mike cleaning his apartment. Back then Mike worked for a cleaning company that cleaned Anthony's apartment once a week. Mike had been asked to fill in that day for a sick member of staff and visited Anthony's apartment for the first time. They acknowledged each other briefly before Anthony went to get ready. Shortly after, he heard music coming from the lounge and went out to discover Mike singing a song on his beloved vintage Martin guitar that his uncle left him. But he soon forgot all about this when he tuned into what Mike was playing. After finding out it was one of his own tracks they instantly geled. After talking about their styles and influences and getting to know each other, they started writing the very next day and after 3 years of hard work enlisted the help of Craig Powell, head of the Songmaker Group, who instantly saw their talent and song writing capabilities. Currently in the recording studio laying down their debut album, so expect good things from The Nites in the future."

Band Members

• Anthony Goldsbrough - Vocals
• Michael Gazzard - Guitar, Piano, Vocals

Conventions of a Music Video