Music Video Analysis

This music video mainly contains medium shots of the band members playing their instruments. This follows typical genre conventions of rock music videos as 50% of the shots focus on the band. There is also a relative amount of close-up/meat shots of the lead singer, again following music video conventions as the lead singer is usually the main focus and seen as the 'most important' member of the band. The featured song is the soundtrack for the movie 'Jackass 3' and therefore has an intertextual reference to the film; the other 50% of shots are clips from the movie and clips of the stars from the film singing along with the band during the chorus (which contains gang vocals, thus making a link between the music and the visuals.) another link between the visuals and the music is that the fast, upbeat punk rock sound of the song matches the Mise en scene of the music video (clips of people riding skateboards, BMX's and doing stunts.) The song is the type of music that you would listen to whilst skating and BMX-ing etc, and that is why it is perfectly suited to put the in the music video; it's the perfect genre of music for this style video. It is also likely that the fans of jackass are fans of the band, it is therefore probably not a coincidence, but a choice by the record/ film producers to use this band for the song/ video. There is a link between the lyrics and the visuals; the main line in the song is 'Memories, make me want to go back there' as it shows clips of the jackass stars looking back over making the Jackass films.