'Eminem - Without me' is a great example of a Postmodern music video. The whole music video is built around parodies of comins - Batman, Robin and Blade trying to save a child who bought a copy of 'The Eminem Show' that has a Parental Advisory sticker. Intertexuality is used when references are made to original Batman movies when Robin climbs up the wall (also hyperreality) and Robin and Batman are in a fast car. Intertextuality to real life is used when we are reminded of when Elvis died on the toilet when we see Eminem dressed as Elvis sat on the toilet. We see hyperreality when 3 mini people are floating on water inside the toilet that Elvis has just been sat on - this isn't possible and is weird for the sake of being weird. The 4th wall is broken and we are reminded that it is only a text when the red recording button appears on the screen and when Eminem sings to the camera and the lyrics are printed at the bottom of the screen, making it like a karaoke for the audience.
I used Photovisi to create a collage of screenshots of Eminem's video.
'Adele - Skyfall' is a more recent example of a Postmodern video. This video is different to the average music video because because it hardly features the artist. Adele, the singer, is only shown for 5 seconds out of the 4.48 minute video. 'Skyfall', the song,was written for the James Bond movie 'Skyfall. Skyfall the movie has its own trailer which lasts 2.34 minutes but this music video is almost like another longer trailer for the film. It is different to other music videos because at the beginning we see adverts for Columbia, the golden lion trade mark, 007 and credits to the major people involved with the film. This is the same as a typical film trailer would have. Intertextuality is used throughout the whole of the music video to shows clips of the James Bond film, and nothing of Adele apart from the 5 seconds at the start.
Again, I used Photovisi to create a collage of screenshots of Adele's video.
