Daft Punk, Around the World, 1997. (Michael Gondry)
Awesome song and video, great watch and beat and music i think are linked awesomely to the dancing narrative. The set of 16 characters are shown in the video and are depicted as robots, walking around a circular platform representing a vinyl record. The song is meant to be a visual representation with each charcter representing an instrument. The Androids as the voice, the rapidity of the athletes to symbolize the bass guitars ascending and descending, the femininty of the swimmers to be the high pitched keyboard, 'ichty' skeletons to serve as the guitars and the mummies to represent the drum machine. For me its excellent work of choreography how all the dancers are perfectly in time and it just flows against the music, although the music is very simple and rarely changes beat the video i think just makes the song.
The mise-en-scene of each dancer and the costumes they are wearing to reflect upon the instruments, added with the set design show how easily a great video can be created from something so simple, and how linking the music to the dancers really add to the track. Plus the flashing lights in the background are used to match colour with the beat of the song, and the phrase 'Around the World' which is repeated regulary matches to the movements of the characters as the walk around the record. the track works well as a subsidary media, by creating a really awe-inpsiring track and compels the viewer to watch more of Daft Punk's abstract style videos and songs. This track is to show how technology is progressing much like some of their other videos the including of robots, setting the video upon a huge circle depicting a vinyl record and then having the charcters represent the new instruments, shows the transition through technology from record player to CD.
Great video, and shows how well choreographed dancing can work so well against a simple beat.
Joe - you need to keep your video analysis formal and detailed. this is far too short.
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