Analysis Of Arctic Monkeys Music Videos

Fluorescent Adolescent

The narrative of this video is a fight between two groups, Clowns and Non-clowns. The two possible leaders of each group are shown to have flashbacks of themselves together when younger. The only time the lyrics relate to the video is when the young clown sings to the young boy, “Where did you go?” other than this there is no real relation between video and lyrics. This would mean that this video is largely concept based.
The singer of the band says that he loosely based the song on the poem "Out of Control Circus" which is printed on the inside cover of the CD, this would give an explanation for the use of clowns in the video.When the Sun Goes Down

This narrative based film is about ‘that girl there’, who is implied to be a prostitute and her client, the ‘scummy man’. The video uses a lot of repetitive scenes possibly symbolising the repetition of her job. I do not think this is a particular good effect as it gets quite boring.
The song has intertextual reference to the song by ‘The Police’, ‘Roxanne’, a song about prostitution which was inspired when the band stayed at a seedy hotel in Paris, yet relates no reference to the video.

A view from the Afternoon

Shot in Arctic Monkeys home town, Sheffield, A view from the Afternoon is a concept based video yet it is also performance based as the videos main focus is a young man playing the drums backgrounded by high rise flats.
This ‘performance’ is intersected with different angles of the surrounding area and the people in it, such as a young girl wearing devil horns when the lyrics “wearing fancy-dress” are sang.
The video is mainly shot in black and white which gives it depth yet there is one scene in full colour is only 2 seconds long and is the drummer washing in shallow water as the fades into silence.