My medium specificity assignment is
a silent music video of the song “Nothing’s Wrong” by Echosmith. One of the biggest points of this video is
that the human body is a piece of art that is capable of sharing thoughts and
feelings in many different ways. While
watching a music video, the viewer is bombarded by vocals, instrumentation, and
a visually dynamic moving image. There
is so much in a music video that distracts from the performer, including
color. Take Taylor Swift’s music video
for “Blank Space” as an example. While
being an incredible piece of art, there is a lot of distraction from the main
point of a music video: to see the singer actually sing.
In
my video for “Nothing’s Wrong,” there are many things that lead the viewer to
appreciate the actual singing aspect.
For example, most of the video is in black and white. The performer barely moves throughout the
video to create minimal distraction. She
is blindfolded so that the viewer has to look at her mouth. And, of course, there is no sound. If the viewer wants to know what the singer
is saying, he or she has to pay careful attention to try and read her lips. The random shots that are in color represent
the desire to break out and do something crazy and exciting, which are what
many music videos are like.
In the text
written by Scott McCloud, he discusses how he regained an interest in comics as
he got older because there seemed to be something there that wasn’t there
before. He said, “I felt that there was
something lurking in comics…something
that had never been done. Some kind of hidden power!” (3). There aren’t
many music videos that don’t have sound.
This new way of viewing a music video forces the viewer to appreciate
music in a new way. The singer’s lips
move according to a certain beat as they mouth the words to the song that
clearly must be playing even though it cannot be heard. This video addresses some disabilities such
as deafness, blindness, and color blindness and that something still exists
even when it cannot be experienced. For
example, if a person cannot hear, that does not mean that music doesn’t
exist. Music can exist in many different
forms, even if it is only in the mind.
In conclusion, one
does not need to hear music in order to feel it. It is not even necessary to hear the words to
know what is going on. So many songs
have such beautiful or important messages that are drowned out by too much
noise, both visual and aural.
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