Video Analysis
A video with many similarities to our song choice would be Jimi Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic.
It's a short video with a total length of 2:24, quite fitting for its time.
Jimi Hendrix comes into the Classic Rock genre.
Relating to the Goodwins music video analysis, the video does demonstrate genre characteristics as it shows Hendrix performing a live show. Also fitting in with his analysis would be a relationship between lyrics and visuals as it displays traffic in new york, heavily relating to the title "Crosstown Traffic". There are a lot of close ups on Hendrix as he is the main person, therefore relying heavily on star image.
Crosstown Traffic would come under illustration - a narrative video that illustrates what the music and lyrics represent in a simple, straightforward way.
The only real prop in the Crosstown Traffic, is Hendrix's guitar.
Locations: New York Inner City, Live Shows
The lighting in this video consists of natural and expressionist as its mainly shot outdoors along with a few shots from a live performance.
The video starts off with Establishing shots of New York city in the early morning. We then get close ups on Hendrix sitting in a taxi (star image). We then get medium and long shots of pedestrians. There are a lot of medium shots of Jimi performing live. Close cutting occurs often as there is a lot of footage of everyday life in New York and live performances.
There are no special effects in this video, possibly because of its era, or maybe it just special effects would have been irrelevant.
