Analysing and decontructing a music video part one (Mikill Pane - Return Of Mr Pane)

Name of Track: Return of Mr Pane Name of Artist: Mikill Pane
Features to look for:	General Example:	Detailed Example:
Genre Characteristics	Various, however he is a rapper but is different from everyone else as that is his style because he wants to be something no one else is.	He is a mix of different genres and sub-genres and wants to be different from other artists. He is a not well known artist in the UK and is not recognised globally. His audience is very niche as he doesn’t have a style or genre.
What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?	Visuals will show what he is saying to express to the people what he is talking about. Talks about himself and what people possibly think of him.	There are visuals where it shows what he is talking about, for example he says “lemon and lime in his corona” the visuals show a lemon and lime with a bottle of corona.
What is the relationship between the music and visuals?	Shows the lifestyle he lives	Living in London he is showing himself living in the outer skirts of London where we find estates and rough London boroughs
Are there Close-ups of the artist and star image motifs?	There are Many Close up of the star persona of the artist	The camera mainly focus’ on the face of Mikill Pane, however we see that at the beginning the camera focus’ on the other parts of his body for example his shoes and the surrounding are shown before his face
Is there any reference to the notion of looking?	There are no notion of looking	The Camera does not use editing skills to make notion of looking of the artist instead we are constantly focused on his face and suburbs of the area he is filming in.
Are There Intertextual References?	There are no Intertextual references apart from possibly the clothing	Mikill pane only looks at the new and in the video does not use previous ideas. He is only representing himself and nothing more. The clothing could be used for advertising.
Is It Performance- Based, Narrative-based or Concept-Based? How Much Of Each?	Concept based and possibly a little performance based.	The video is set up in the boroughs of London where Mikill Pane hangs around in, we can see that the video comments on himself and how he doesn’t care what people think about him

Essay Form:

The Video which relates to the idea of my music is made by a not well known Artist named Mikill Pan. The song which I am analysing is named ‘Return of Mr pane’. Directed, shot and edited by J.Miller. This song talks about himself and the kind of person he is. The genre of this video is mix of different genres to create a slight twist between several genres, the song relates to Hip-Hop, Rap, MC and grime.  The video, because of the London boroughs we can indicate that this video can relate to grime because in grime videos they are usually located in urban areas in boroughs of London or other cities.

The relationship between the visuals and lyrics are the showing of the star persona is there with the lyrics talking about himself and what people possibly think of him, for example he talks about ‘one you never expected was actually a rapper’ describes how people if they wasn’t to know who he was would not think of him as a rapper because his appearance doesn’t show it.  Another way the lyrics relates to the visuals is when there is a connection of showing the consumer what he is talking about, for example when he used the words ‘Lemon and Lime in his Corona’ a lemon and a lime will appear with a bottle of Corona appearing between them, this is to help with the idea of getting the message across to what type of person he is and expressing the feelings across to the public.

Music Relates to the visuals of the video through the uses of area, and styles. The area where the video was footage in the council estates of London where local shops and homes are, this relates to the fact that this is where Mikill Pane is from and that showing the type of genre this video would normally indicate is grime and MC where they would have been brought up and use their local areas to footage. However Mikill pane has a different appearance to what these types of artists are like for example the type of clothing he wears is different as to the brand and style, there is also a difference from the fact that he has tattoos covered over his body and two big stretchers in his ear. Without the music he would be stereotyped as punk and reggae.

Close up and made broadly of the artist to create his star persona. However not all close ups are focused on his facial image, for example in the opening before he starts rapping the lyrics the close ups are made on his shoes, tattoos and the area he is located in showing graffiti. This can help us indicate where he possibly hangs around possibly brought up to show us that his life isn’t rich yet still has talent.

In the video we seem to be focused on Mikill Pane and not with his notion of looking, with the camera work we are focused on the fashion he presents and the clothing which might be towards what he thinks for example he wears a t-shirt which says go F*** your-self’ representing his lyrics and how he believes what people might think of him is not the truth and what he thinks his is. The camera is also focused on himself and his voice seems to be in control of what happens in the video, for example when he says ‘The Trainer Collecting UFO Time Mayor’ trainers will pop up in front of him  of the type of shoes he likes.

There are no Intertextual references used in this video, Mikill pane looks at creating something new and because he is not a well known artist he isn’t able to create a video which uses lots of special effects etc. this video has been made plain and simple so that it looks good yet is cost effective. The only intertextual reference in the video could possibly be the clothes he is wearing maybe advertising them.

This Video is concept based because he is commenting on the public in what they think of him and he describing to us the type of person he is and what he thinks about things in his life, from this we understand that he doesn’t really care about other people because he seems to be fed up of the idea of what people think.  ‘who’s mouth that sort of bend to the side when he speaks’ is a comment towards himself possibly what someone may of said but doesn’t seem to bothered by it and exaggerating it to make people seem aware of it and show it is something different about him but people should accept it.

In Conclusion This video is a basic concept towards a way that unknown artists can make, yet become successful because it isn’t all just about the video and instead believe it should be about the music but to cover up the idea that to get to a broader audience a video needs to be created to get the artist somewhere. Mikill Pane is just enjoying making music instead of making loads of money.  

Mikill pane Promotes this image towards his single does not have an album cover for this video and song, he used ‘HoodVideoShop’ to promote this song which is a YouTube channel. However there are pictures to represent the song and this one is one of them which is the first picture he made which helped promote him. This picture represents him towards the fact the picture is a image of him wearing glasses and has a beard but the sign of the two bones crossing each other is a representation of a pirate. This could be because he does not want to have to look up to anyone or follow others rules. There are other singles and album covers which could represent other representation of the artist. One album Cover which is Identical to this but in a negative colour is ‘Summer In the big City’ This Album is the follow on from ‘Return of Mr pane’

 
 

Before the start of the lyrics of the song. We are made to see the representations that make Mr Pane. For example we see his shoes, tattoos and the area before we see his face. This give the audience concerns on who this artist may look like and is more for the audience to look forward to. This could be great in my music video because it will then make a great opening to the video not knowing who this new artist is.

 

In Mikill Pane video we see intertextual references which are shown to be heard in his lyrics yet they are actually produced in the video. For example this clip represents Mr Pane talking about corona beer with lemon and lime; this is represented in the video. For my coursework I wish to do the same with many similar ideas which seems to be a way for the lyrics to be in control of the video.

Using the signal interferences is a way to make the video seem that something about the video is distorted or that it could be coming to an end found in this video. This concept could be a great way of making my video seem distorted or that the mind is lacking which could be showing anything towards being intoxicated with some form of substance.