Iconic music video 1 deconstructed- David Manning

The reason why i have chosen to analyse "Eminem-Star" is because it his rated one of the most best narrative based music videos of all time. This should give us an insight in how to portray a narrative within a music video.

The truly dramatic music video by “Eminem- star” is showing how over a period of 6 months one of his fans becomes addicted to him. The narrative explains how the pregnant girl friend reacts, the setting and with baby. The audience to this music video would be 14 to 20 years of age. However some parts would not be appropriate for the 14 to 16 year old demographic, such as going to the toilet is slightly personal observation and how they dealt with the swearing. Audience will feel sorry for Stan, however relating to him isn’t possible as the ideologies are completing different between Stan and the audience.

The genre of music is rap with r and b. We know this due to the lyrics and the way they are projected on the singers. The lyrics become digetic and non-digetic through out depending on eh story line.

The camera angles are mainly close ups either show the emotions or show important prop e.g. the letter. When Stan had committed suicide, the camera shoots turned and looked into the past with monochrome. This made it clear that he had died and that we are looking back in the past were some shorts have already been seen.
The camera tended to pan left and right to keep the enigma going, as it was hard for audience to keep following the story line.

The main acting cast weirdly all looked like Eminem. This was quite claver due to the fact Stan wanted to be Eminem and his girlfriend looked like him to.

The lighting throughout was minimum. This is showed as the mood of unhappiness and the scene that this was a cloud that would never be lifted.

The most expensive shot and interesting shots were in a wide range. The first being the pan down through the house which was very interesting and kept the storyline going, as if he was walking away for ever. This was shown again as only once she went down stairs and then got grabbed away. This showed them at different levels all the time and if she tried to help she would just pushed away.
The second was the crane short off the bridge, showing the car falling. This shows the distance off of the fall, adding tension and enigma to the audience.
The third was under water shoot showing his car under water and how this was the end this also brought the audience age up due to we are in the same environment.

The mise-en-scene was in America. We knew it was poor part of in America. We knew it was poor part of America due to the old car he drove, small run down house and poor dated lighting.

The ending was some what symbolic so the young boy was shown also dyeing his hair. So Stan had passed on his hair. So Stan had passed on his issues to a young child, very emotional to the audience.

The reputation of Eminem was that he had grown up and was able to construct a letter that was positive get telling Stan he needs help. This shows him in a good way get telling Stan to get some help. It was also interesting that it is if he wants to keep his fan. It was also interesting that Eminem tried to see his fans but get pulled back by his security. He also hugged Stan at a book signing. All showing side