Goodwin's Theory Music Video Chart

Goodwin’s forms and conventions of music videos

(The music video is below the chart)

Genre characteristics	The video follows the characteristics of having dark colours in the video, the main character looking sad, a live performance from the artist and the costume being normal.
Relationship between the lyrics and the visuals	The lyrics and the visuals relationship tends to be illustrated, ‘I heard that you were coming home’ and there’s a girl finding her way through a maze. ‘I am awake now’ It’s filmed at night, and the shot shows how awake the girl is after being woken up. ‘You’ve got a lions heart’ The maze seems to be something she could fear however she’s being brave the way she’s walking around it, she also looks scared at points.
Relationship between the music and the visuals	The music is fast and upbeat, however the pace is quite slow, it spends a lot of time filming the band, and on the girl when she’s discovering things, despite the upbeat music. The video cuts on certain beats of the drum. During the instrumentals, the pace seems to increase, with more cuts, and after the instrumental, the pace of the song increases, as does the videos.
Style and iconography	The record company is looking to sell this track as heart-warming, and an upbeat track. The band are displayed as talented. This video is separate to other videos provided by the artists, previous videos tend to be solely the band playing in a location.
References to voyeurism	The video doesn’t seem to display people sexually, neither does anything else in the video. The references to voyeurism seems to be directed towards the people in the maze to see what they’re doing as they’re not completely understood.
Intertextual references	There isn’t any noticeable intertextual references.