Earthquake - Dj Fresh - Music Video Analysis

Name of track: Earthquake Artist/director: DJ Fresh
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Genre characteristics	Genre - Hip Hop Use of Rap and Heavy and quick beats that are noticeable.	This song uses rap as well as heavy and quick noticeable beats. The noticeable beats in the song make it more appealing.
What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?	There is a relationship between the visuals and lyrics in a way that the lyrics talk about an earthquake and the visuals show a lot of disrupted movement.	The lyrics are in time with the actions in the visuals. When the lyrics say certain words such as 'Earthquake' there is an explosion as if there is actually an earthquake.
What is the relationship between music and visuals?	The music has a lot of bass drum beats and loud thumps, showing what it is like when there is an earthquake.	The music and the visuals are in time with each other through some of the song. When there is a drop in the beat, there is usually something big happening in the visuals e.g an explosion.
Are there close-ups of the artist and star image motifs?	There is mainly long shots and medium shots throughout showing a group of people. There is also a few close-ups to show emotion.	There are close-ups, medium shots and long shots of the main characters walking down a road with things happening in the background. There are no visuals of the artist in the song singing.
Is there reference to the notion of looking?	There is a lot of close-ups and medium shots of women in small outfits.	There are close-ups of some of the people walking down the street and the camera shows all parts of their body.
Are there intertextual references?	There are no intertextual references.	There are no intertextual references in this music video.
Is it performance-based, narrative-based or concept-based? How much of each?	Concept based music video.	This music video is fully concept based and it doesn't really have much of a story, it is mainly people dressed as superheroes walking down a street with explosions behind them.