Faithless-Insomnia tbc

ACT: Faithless

TRACK: Insomnia
YEAR: 1995

DIRECTOR: -

GENRE: Trance, Dream house

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUALS + LYRICS: 
there is a relationship in the fact that the song is a very dark song, this is emphasised by the dark lighting used. The lyrics go 'no electricity' during these lyrics there is just the artists face visable. 

The song is also obviously about insomnia the inability to sleep, therefore the director has cleverly made the 
video very dark and gloomy, this is what you would imagine it being like if you couldn't get any sleep.

There is no clear narrative in the visuals as it is very random, however you get a general feel of the aim of the video. The flashes of rndom images are what i believe nightmares of what keeps the character in the video up at night. therefore the narrative isnt clear however you can pick out what the artist is trying to get across. it is a clever concept video

GENRE CHARACTERISTICS: 
with alot of trance songs the videos are very random as that type of music is very energetic and has the sole intention of being used in nightclubs etc for people to dance to therefore there rarely is a main narrative to the songs.

INTERTEXTUALITY?

in this video there is no intertextuality i could find it is a very unique video and was something that hadn't been seen before with the randomness of the video.

PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE AND/OR CONCEPT?:

the video i think is a concept video.

PERFORMANCE STYLE: 
the performance style of this video is very much unique as it is mainly lip synching and acting by various characters. it is all very random. there is no clear idea of what they are doing. however the lip synching is very serious, with alot of intent in connection with the words 'getting stressed' 'insomnia release me' the character never breaks a smile he is very serious and emotional.

STAR TREATMENT

 the singer in faithless is the main character (Maxi Jazz) who is the character who lip synchs for nearly all the song. this is because he is telling a story of his personal experience of insomnia.

PACE + ANY VARIATION OF PACE: 
when the song drops into the up pace beat the shot variety becomes much more. however the song in general to say it is trance isn't very upbeat there are very long takes, not going with the beat like many dance videos do

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DIRECTOR STYLE:

The directors style is very unique and different it was a pioneer in music videos as nothing like that had been seen before. The lip synching and nightmares that the character has was just different, most videos then either told a story or had a performance (e.g dance routine).

the way the words go with the video was very clever as the whose song is about him getting no sleep. It then puts you in his mind with the boy in red paint which suggest satanic spirits is why he cant sleep, the boy keeps him awake! everything is dark, which the director cleverly chose in every scene as he is in a dark place.