Analysis of Warp Trailers and Music Videos

Warp Music Videos and Film Trailers

Music Videos:
1. Jamie Lidell - You got me up
Uses Rotoscoping
Narrative: Man holding his cat, he then begins to sing.
Purpose: Purely to entertain. Obscure themes in such, what relevance is the cat.


Reference: You got me up - Jamie Lidell (2005) Music Video, Directed by n/a, UK, Warp Records, Available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0h0pvjVSzo [Last Accessed: 08/09/14]

2. Gravenhurst - Hollow Men
Black and white and uses CGI. Recurring theme of war and corrupt government.
Narrative: People who constantly follow what their government wants them to do, giving them a hollow feeling. Instead of following what they want and can do, they instead rely on something with a higher power than they do. This links in with the soldiers, that they just follow orders no questions asked. 'Senseless Violence'.
Purpose: It almost feels like it is trying to send a message; to stop following the crowd and to do something else.


Reference: Hollow Men - Gravenhurst (2007) Music Video, Directed by n/a, UK, Warp Records, Available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVSnLEzdfg [Last Accessed: 08/09/14]

3. Grizzly Bear - Knife
Psychedelic. Extremely obscure. Uses animations.
Narrative: Seems to mess with people's mind; Man stuck in a desert and a odd humanoid entity places weird stones on his torso. During this his hand seems to expand and the stones begin to sink into his body and strange tentacle like appendages emerge from his body and begins to link other parts of the tentacle like appendages.
Purpose: Psychedelic and may have the purpose of producing odd 'outside-the-box' images.


Reference: Knife - Grizzly Bear (2007) Music Video, Directed by Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch, USA, Warp Records, Available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYZbYtAl9A [Last Accessed: 08/09/14]

Trailers:
1. Hush
Narrative: A couple witnesses what seems to be a kidnapping. A woman is stuck in the back of a truck and when an argument breaks out between them, they become separated. This forces the man to play an unwanted chase of cat and mouse between the kidnapper and the man.
Purpose: Entertainment; It may be trying to surface the question of 'What would you do?' to the audience; to question the action of someone in the situation they were given.


Reference: Hush (2009) Film Trailer, Directed by Mark Tonderai, UK, Warp Films, Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXuUMDUIP5g [Last Accessed: 09/09/14]

2. Kill List
Narrative: A former soldier who has turned into a contract killer, is sent on another job. The job he was given some time ago has left him mentally and physically scarred and being sent on another contract mission will bring back a part of his traumatic past. He is sent 'deep into the heart of darkness.'.
Purpose: Entertainment; The purpose of this film trailer was to give some form of obscurity about the story.


Reference: Kill List (2011) Film Trailer, Directed by Ben Wheatley, UK, Warp Films, Available at: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqkqF--v1tg]

3. Berberian Sound Studio
Narrative: Set in 1976, a British sound engineer arrives in Rome. He is to work on a sound track for a project named, The Equestrian Vortex. The project however takes a dark turn and begins to be come more terrifying as the sound engineer holds the true horrors to this story in his mind. He begins to believe that he is in a film.
Purpose: Entertainment; Almost psychedelic and progressive intensity.


Reference: Berberian Sound Studio (2012) Film Trailer, Directed by Peter Strickland, UK, Warp Films, Available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKG63WoOFGI [Last Accessed: 10/09/14]