Music Video of The Week

Franz Ferdinand- Take Me Out

Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out' is an extremely interesting music video. It is performance based, however is very entropic, as the performers have been edited to be shown as robots. Their movements amplify the beat of the song throughout the video, and many close ups are used to show the lip syncing/ band performing. In terms of star image, the image the audience recieve are that this band are eccentric. This matches the sub-genre of the music. There are intertextual references such as robots and the grainy editing which conveys a cartoon look. There is a variety of camera work shots, especially angles shown in diagonals, etc which is interesting as it adds to the entropic element of the video.