This document provides a detailed analysis of the music video "Man made Disaster" by the band Betraying the Martyrs. It analyzes various technical and artistic elements of the video, including camera angles, shots of the band members, and an iconic shot that captures the band during a breakdown in the song. It also discusses the simple mise-en-scene setting of an abandoned warehouse, which is a common setting for videos of bands in the hardcore music genre. The analysis examines how the visual elements of the video illustrate and amplify the music.

1. Detailed Analysis
“Betraying The Martyrs – Man made Disaster”

2. Introduction
My Second video for detailed analysis, is one that I haven’t before
published onto my blog.
This video in particular is also a staged performance video, there
are no elements of Live performance, or narrative, present. This, I
feel, is irrelevant to the idea of an audience grasping a concept of
what the band would be like live.

3. Camera Angles/ Shots
Although the video has been produced and directed, the band members' stage presence is
portrayed to be very natural. Many camera angles and shots throughout this video allow the
audience to connect with the band members individually, yet also in a group.
The close up shots of certain band members’ facial area, are in higher definition, and the
group shots are a lot more clear. In comparison to the previous video analysis. The band are a
lot more in sync, both with eachother, and with the song itself. Especially within the
breakdown of the song. Go to the next slide for a continued analysis of that section in particular.
As when the camera becomes clear,
the focus has shifted to the rest of
the band.
Detailed close up of the vocalists facial features
and expression. Allows the viewer, I feel, to gain
an inkling of the passion the vocalist feels for the
lyrics, because of the powerful facial expression.
“Those that have held my hand,
that have held my hand,
I have cried in the faces,
Faces, in the faces of a million”

4. Iconic Camera Shots.
This shot, I feel, is one of the most iconic
throughout the whole video. It’s very well done,
and has managed to capture the whole band,
simultaneously moving in time with the music.
In this particular genre of music, the
breakdown is usually the most iconic part
of the song. Within their genre, Betraying
the Martyrs are known for this particular
shot.
An urban dictionary definition of a Breakdown. I feel that this ties
in with the iconic shot of the band movement, as a breakdown is
commonly known as a drop in tuning, and pace of the song. This is
relevant as, in the video itself the shot is presented in slow
motion. The visual movement of the band, then ties in with the
drop in the tuning of the song. Again making a direct relation with
another of Andrew Goodwin’s theories that There is a relationship
between the music and the visuals, with the visuals either
amplifying, illustrating or
contradicting the music.
In this case, I feel that it amplifies AND illustrates the breakdown
itself.

5. Mise en Scene – Set Design.
I have tried to keep the theme of my detailed analysis relatively consistent. Therefore the setting
for the video’s I have analysed seem to be fairly similar.
There are several themes when it comes to set design for video’s of bands of the Hardcore genre, in particular.
-Abandoned Warehouses / Large unused rooms.
-Mainly Empty, only containing the band themselves, and their instruments.
This ties in with Andrew Goodwin’s Theory that particular genre’s of music have their own music video style
and iconography. (Pictorial illustration of a subject or The collected representations illustrating a subject)
With the making of my music video, the abandoned room setting, is definitely one that I intend
on trying to pursue.
Again, the setting of this video, probably wouldn’t have took much preparation. Yet regardless of
that fact, I feel that the outcome of the video still has the same, if not a better effect than a video
with that of a more time consuming and complicated setting.