E.G8 Friend Within - The renegade

Friend Within - The renegade RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUALS + LYRICS:  Renegade - One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter. The renegade is a video in which a little boy in an african slump, carries a boom box round the slum with the the renegade song playing.  The relationship is between the location of the video and the title and lyrics. As a renegade is a deserter, someone who changes allegiance or group etc. It then proceeds through different people who join in with dancing to the renegade.  GENRE CHARACTERISTICS:  With dance/house music generally it involves some form of dancing as that is what dance music is made for, hense the name. It is made to be danced to in nightclubs, bars etc or in any situation you can dance.  Therefore dancing is used in most dance videos i have watched, from many of david guetta's songs to faithless insomnia. Dancing in dance videos is like lip synching in rap videos it is almost essential, and a common convention of dance videos. Dancing is used in most scenes by several different people. The boom box INTERTEXTUALITY? There is a lot of things intertextual with other dance videos, one is the obvious one which i dancing. Another is the fact they are using a boom box this is used in a lot of past dance and hip hop videos. It is something that was used in the past, however this appears to be a less fortunate country that don't have the technology we do. PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE AND/OR CONCEPT?: I would say the video is part performance part concept as there is lots of performing in the video, with several dancers. however the video is very unique and has no real meaning which gives it the concept feel.  STAR TREATMENT Yet again in a dance video the artist/artists are no in the video. This is because the artist does not sing the video, therefore it wouldn't go with the usual music video convention.  Therefore the star treatment is usually passed over to one character, which in this video has passed over to the little boy on the bike who rides around sharing the song on his boom box. SHOT VARIETY + NO. OF SETUPS:  Set up No.1, The first dance scene. Set up No.2 the second dance scene Set up No.3 Set up No.4 Set up No.5