Music Video Analysis: Take That's Babe

Music Video Analysis: Take That's Babe

Relationship between Lyrics and Visuals

• Illustrative : They are singing about loosing a girl and their upset is obvious as they are alone and look miserable. And example of this is when he literally sees his son acroos the room when the lyrics say 'I saw hus face...he had my eyes'. The women and son also arrive, as the lyrics are saying 'I'm back again'
• Amplification : The idea of the chessboard, which is trying to connote complexity and the difficulties of relationships

Relationship betwen Music and Visuals

• Illustrative : Sound-vision editing

Performace, Narrative or Concept Based

• Performace : There a shots of them singing into the camera of all of them performing and also just of each member individually
• Narrative : We see one group member's story of them being reunited with their family

Visual Hooks

• There are lots of CU's and ECU's of the group members singing into the camera

Genre Characteristics (boy band)

• Mise-en-scene : Romantic setting, foreign country, snow etc. Colour tint : Orangey hue
• Music and lyrics : Slow tempo music and lyrics are about love
• Editing : Slow editing, which fits with the pace of the music
• Love interest : Stunning women
• Gesture codes : Entire group singing, emotion is shown through their expressions. They seem as if they are puring their heart out

Intertextual References

• Russian revolution : Families are seperated as the men go off to fight. Some men return and are reunited with their families, however others are assumed dead#

References to the Notion of Looking

• The performers look into the camera as they sing. We are watching their story and the camera is following the man as he is reunited with his girlfriend and son, making it feel as if we are there. It is a voyeuristic style.