Genre: Jazz
1st video: The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take five
Lyrics and visuals: The Dave Brubeck Quartet was a jazz band that produced instrumentals so obviously there can be no relationships between lyrics and visuals. The group was also founded in 1951, a time when music videos were commonly videos of the performers performing their music, nothing like the short pieces of art that accompany tracks today. The video is also shot in black and white due to the time it was produced in.
Music and visuals: One of the ways in which the visuals relate to the music is the camera slowly and smoothly panning throughout the video this matches jazz as a genre and is appropriate for the ‘cool’, ‘smooth’ vibes that are commonly associated with Jazz. The video matches the music in another way as well, whatever musician and instrument is the most predominant in the song at the time will be shown in the foreground or on his own. An example would be when Joe Morello performs his drum solo the camera pans slowly over each member of the Quartet until finally resting on him for the duration of the solo.
Close ups and motifs: there is no use of close ups in the video at all, the closest it comes to close ups are by using mid shots when each musician takes their turn at a solo. The band are being marketed as dignified, civilised musicians, the type of musicians who would appeal to the dignified, civilised audience that Jazz is associated with. There is no use of motifs.
Voyeurism: Again due to the context that surrounds the band and video there is next to no reference to voyeurism or sexualised displays.
Intertexuality: There are no intertextual references in the video.
The Video is performance based.
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