Weezer

Image - The band demonstrate mise en scene  through their costume - They are  wearing similar funkie styles with brightish colours like the orange and purple trainers with red and green tops however they are generally dressed in black this is probably to make the prop of the guitar stand out as that is quite bright with the lighting bolt of the strap. It is quite a simple idea for a cover.

Body Language they are all posed as if to say i am ready to make some music with eye contact with the audience especially the one furthest to the right with his heads behind his back as if to say we've been waiting for you - bit creepy but not as creepy as the facial expressions which are quite stern especially the one closest to the left he looks almost angry with his scrunched down eye brows and screwed up face.  These poses are use to show that the band are serious about their music.

Colour - lime green connotes jealousy but is probably just there to attract attention because it is so vibrant or the video perfect situation the guy purposefully got rid of the girl in order to take her place as lead singer. Thus he was jealous of her in that song from the album. I think the colours I will spatter on my CD cover will be red (connotes death/blood) this green (stands out) and light blue (masculinity) with a white (purity) background and black (connotes death) font and logo. The white font is pure and stands out against the green.

Font - clear wide and lowercase with very little text it is difficult to analyse.

Layout - all aligned centre almost symmetrical which is appealing to the eye. However, the band is kind of clustered to show that they are a group - a force.

Language - "weezer" according to the perfect situation video it was called weeze when the girl was in the band but then changed to weezer when the guy took the lead of the singer.There is  no album name which provides mystery and intrigues the listener to question  what is the album about. Additionally, the lead singer Rivers Cuomo had the nickname Weezer in school because of a breathing problem according to http://library.thinkquest.org/4626/rock.htm which states rock band name origans from his health problem. The glasses in the image reinforces the dorkiness of the band because they are wearing glasses which is a negative stereotype against disability.

I feel that even though I found that these bands were on this link http://www.fuse.tv/galleries/2013/07/20-iconic-pop-punk-album-covers saying that they are pop punk I think this one is more popie because it reminds me of LND (above) and everyones on it by Lilly Allen. Unfortunately the original and official video has been taken off the Internet and I can't seem to find it so you won't be able to look it up. Moving on the CD cover follows the bright pop iconic genre, but the music is quite punkie.

Mise en scene body language and facial expressions - all of the people that lip sync to the chorus and lyrics "on drugs" have really spaced out expressions and are almost like human robots with no emotion. Whereas the male protagonist is muddled this makes the audience slightly confused as they follow his perspective conveying his importance.

Props - this is the third pop punk video I have watched that has started with someone waking up in bed. when the male protagonist gets this hair cut it is obvious that it isn't a very trust worth company because it only has a few cans of hairspray and scissors it is quite dull and dodgy. the male antagonist digging with a drill in the wrong place reveals the erratic behaviour.

Costumes - these follow the same brand as the front cover with the vibrant colours. except the other character e.g. the male antagonist wearing an american police uniform which creates a worry for the audience as he is guiding the traffic badly, also a female antagonist was driving a car was wearing mainstream clothes with her  daughter in the back reinforces this emotion of worry. Both the daughter, the paper boy the older woman who crashes into the male protagonist and the young girl on the tire swing were also wearing mainstream clothes which infers even normal people take drugs not just celebrities. The priests costume connotes that even the people you are supposed to trust are not worthy. this is emphasised with the nurses and fireman's costumes all connoting their authority as these are iconic costumes. Hence the people that are supposed to be running the world like the president or a bus driver who are not doing it safely because they could have taken drugs.

Editing -  the director has decided to select some of the costume change and cut out the costume changes to quicken the pace as the music is very rapid as well. the cutaways to the wet band playing foresees the fireman being on drugs and spraying fire on the opposite house as the house on the other side of the road is on fire. cutting back and forth to the band also makes the pace of the video quicker and brakes the fourth wall reminding the audience of reality like all music videos. When the male protagonist get hit with a piece of wood it is obvious that we are following his narrative because it blacks out and gives an upside down close up of him in a ambulance bed this is obvious from the mise en scene. The fact that he is upside down also disorientates the audience therefore they understand his emotions.

Sound -There are no non diegetic sound at all e.g. knock at the door, the crash of the car or spraying the fire out. Even though people are lip synced to the lyrics there is no added sound thus lacks in continuity and gives a sense of disorientation.  The guitar solo kicks in when the hairdresser was about to shave all of the male protagonists hair this creates tension and a climatic point it demonstrates that we trust people who could be on drugs and doing their jobs on a high.

Camera- There are a range of camera shots and angles most of them when introducing characters and settings are long and mid shots. from the middle to end the band is shot mostly in close up. when the male protagonist is walking down the road tracking is used. Close ups are used when the characters are driving on  objects such as scissors and the two carts crashing to show detail.. Zoom out is used when the policeman is directing the traffic in the wrong direction .  This is used to portray a wide shot of all the traffic and the chaos it would have caused if the cars had crashed as the policeman appears to be high on drugs