Radiohead Burn The Witch MV Notes

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RADIOHEAD CONTEXT:

  • Formed in 1980s
  • Met in school (Oxfordshire)
  • Inspired by a lot of alternative music genres e.g. Kranknock, Jazz and 20th century classical music.
  • OK Computer album (1997) became very big.
  • Mainly described as ART ROCK (challenging rock, things there to make you think)
BURN THE WITCH CONTEXT:
  • From 2016 album called Moon Shaped Pool 
  • Time of the EU referendum
  • Also 6 months before Trump was elected president, early days of Trump campaign.
  • Made in this context, that these things are boiling up.
  • Known to hold anti-capitalist (challenging status quo) views. 
  • A lot of this in regards of their support to environmental causes
LYRICS:
  • Making reference to middle ages, when there would be witch hunts.
  • ''If you float you burn'' ref to trials, if you sink to the bottom and die you're innocent but if you float they burn you for being a witch.
  • ''Sing the song on the jukebox that goes'' 
  • ''Sing the song of the sixpence that goes''
  • Putting together history and present times.
  • 'Gallows' what you would be hung from.
  • ''This is a a low flying panic attack'' military or governmental thing, again mashing two things together. 
MUSIC VIDEO:
  • The sound juxtaposes the whole music video, it doesn't match the imagery.
  • Stop-Motion 
  • There's no performance, no lip-sync and no star image.
  • It rejects Goodwin's whole theory
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
  • Long shots and mid shots
  • Still Camera
  • Shot in 4:3
  • Warm aesthetic to it and at the end it becomes blue.
  • Conventional except for the aspect ratio which is in 4:3, usual music videos are more widescreen.
  • 4:3 is more old-fashioned ratio, gives it a vintage vibe, also shows that the villagers are boxed in.
EDITING:
  • Lots of fades which usually means end of a scene, some time has passed but here it is not the case. This could be done to follow the beat of the song, almost like a breathe within the music video.
  • Cutting rate, longer than average.
  • Some match cuts, match on an action or on an eyeline.
  • Quite conventional in its construction.
  • The rhythm/pace of the music video is quite slow, at time matches the beat but sometimes its slower than the song.
SOUND:
  • At some points the lyrics do match the imagery.
  • Diegetic sounds, birds chirping
MISE EN SCENE:
  • Village in England; everyone knows everyone 
  • Locals dressed in a very different way towards the outsider character who is dressed smart (from a city)
  • Iconography of England (red postbox, pub, beef wellington)
  • Props; models because of stop motion
  • Video clashes different time period similar to the lyrics, uses pre industrial and 50s iconography
  • Dark underbelly to the nice british outline to it.

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