Textual Analysis for Music Video "History" by Funeral For A Friend

This music video has a narrative structure and intertexual references to the 1980's as it is about the miners strike. The band funeral for a friend included this in their video as their family's were deeply involved in the strike.The video uses media languages and forms as The video uses very dark colours such as sepia's this is to create the mood and makes it become authentic. Although the narrative is based on the strike. it is also based on history and life in the 1980's the video can link with the song words although the song is not originally based on that them. The video starts with a mid shot of a banner the typography on the banner is very effective because although you only see certain words the news report like speech over the top talks about miners and police cops been injured in a battle.

The slow motion movement of the video is also very effective as this creates sympathy as it fits with the serious nature of the video. The opening sequence starts of with a close up of a man this later becomes the main character in the narrative in then zooms out to show them sat in the back of the police riot van. This particular part of the video fits well with the music as this part is a melody when the music kicks in the violence in the video does also this works really well. Although the band do have some performance in the video. The narrative is the main focus point of the video, the band are situated in the fight location this could represent that they are used to been surrounded in this sort of situation. The genre of this music video is intertexual to history and the miners strike therefore is based upon this subject. you can tell the genre of this video and song by the way the artists are dressed, there not representing an image of glamor and style but simply just playing the music, you know straight away that this is in the genre of rock as that is what its all about. the violence in the video also represents rock music as this is based on many rock artists lifestyles. the mise en scene also shows the genre as dark, dingy colours are used.

The close up of the main character shows real emotion as does the violence. The whole video is very emotional as it shows violence in a very surreal way. The miners and the police in the video all strongly stand up for what they believe and this shows the slow motion violence. The camera does switch to shots of the band at significant parts of the song showing how they are involved in this video. The setting is the protest of the "battle" the scene is dirty and with injured body's sprawled around this represents how those days where.The song itself has a slow melody in parts but guitar and drum beats shows genre but also adds emotion. identifying the audience although funeral for a friend are famous in there music scene I wouldn't say there world wide famous, obviously there audience is people who like that genre of music, but with the video being intertexual with the miners strike and history of the 1980's this could attract people interested in that subject, or people who's family who were involved in this particular part of history. The ending of the video show the main character at home with his family, this particular part of the video really shows the hardship of them times.