Analysis of redundant and entropic elements

Fall Out Boy-Thanks for the Memories

Entropic; in this screen shot there is a chimp on a phone texting, this in itself is unorthodox but added to the fact that he is wearing clothes this only adds to the oddity.

Redundant; typical set up for an alternative and rock band. Although the music at this point is not as it is violin music.

Redundant and entropic; this is a shot of a phone, this type of phone is seen a lot in not only just this music video but in more of Fall Out Boy’s music videos. This is intertexutality which is a common feature of mainstream music videos.

Redundant; this, however weird it looks it normal for a video, or at least for band. Destruction of set or their own gutair’s normally takes place on stage.

Entropic; again this is another shot where monkeys are taking the place of humans.

Redundant; a establishing hot of the band which is used to show a change of set. This is used often in music videos and so doesn’t seem out of place.

Entropic; this however, is anything but normal. This pose could be seen as, again, a chimp replacing the place of a human. Throughout the video the replacement of humans by monkey’s could be seen as a way of telling the audience that they are smarter than we are.


Linkin Park-What I've done

Redundant; an establishing shot. This is somewhat unconventional. This is not a entropy shot as you would expect something like this in a music video, but as the video plays you understand that this video has a meaning, it’s not just random shots and clips of people.

Redundant; a close up of the lead singer is a common feature of music videos.

Redundant but entropic for most videos; you wouldn’t except to have an image of a man eating, but this is used in contrast to the next picture in the music video which is of a starving man.

Redundant; this is another common feature of Linkin Park’s music videos, because they use different types of backing music, this is a common shot to show the different aspects of their music.

Redundant and entropic because of what they symbolise; although this is not a uncommon picture or clip the image of the World Trade Centre has become nonexistence since 9/11.