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Song: Sabatage
Artist: Beastie Boy
Year: 1988
Director: Spike Jones

Target Audience - The core audience of the music video would be fans of the band and they would be similar ages to the band members. The majority of the fans of the band would be males.

Narrative Structure - The structure of the video is a pastiche/spoof of specifically American cop films and programmes such as Starsky and Hutch, Dukes of Hazzard and Cagney and Lacey. Throughout the video we see the band reinact scenes and situations that are typical of American cops. There is no constant story line, it is broken up and we are shown a variety of different story lines. It dosn't follow a classic narrative which contradicts what "Propp" dictated.

Setting - The settings the same as they would be in the films/programmes and situations they are imitating. They have tryed to fit in as many different spoofs in a possible which are typical to the copp shows but they have taken it to the extreme. They're not suposed to be realistic because it is entertaining for the target audience to see the band act out the situations drastically. As their target audience would have watched the copp films/programmes they could relate and understand the humour to the plott of the music video.

Characters - Band members are dressed up to create the characters. The target audience would want to see the band in the music video this is typical for the audiendce to expect them in the video for a rock genre music video.

The Costumes (Mise- en Scene) -Having the band members dress up also makes the video humerous. They are humerous as they are typical key features of fashion in the 70's and 80's. This is a form of intertextuality because Spike Jones is recreating scenes that are typical of a particular genre (copp films/programmes). Also a combination of whats expected and whats unexpected. The bands costumes consist of fake moustaches, sideburns and Ray Ban sunglasses (which were popular at this period of time). There is also a distingtive difference between different characters when they are "goodies and badies".


Lyrics - There is no distingtive link from the lyrics to the video because the lyrics do not tell the story shot by shot. However there can be a link between the two because the title fits in with the theme also some lyrics would fit in with the actions now and then. The way the lyrics are sung and the feel of the match the video and the song together well.

Special Effects - Random explosions fit in with the copp film/programme theme. The effects are poor but they are suposed to be this way because it is a spoof. For example when the man falls of the bridge, we can tell it is a dummy from the way it falls and is lifeless and limp.

Camera Angles & Editing - The editing is fast and snappy which matches the tempo of the song. Also matches the camera angles that would be used in an American copp films/programmes. When the music slows down so does the action in the video. For example at 2.10 the tempo of the music slows down and so does the action. However it still says in with the theme because they are still doing typical American copp actions such as eating doughnuts and drinking coffee. There is a huge variety of camera shots in this video. The establishing shot of the music video (minus the talk show part at the begining, this was the only video i could upload due to the new youtube rules about music videos) works with the rule of thirds as the police siren is on the top right intersection and just that one image establihes what the video will be about. Another shot that is used is a crash zoom which suits the genre of the video.