Music Video Research

Imogen Heap - Goodnight & Go



Even though the music video mainly takes place within a small room, the mise-en-scene together with the lyrics keeps the attention of the audience. Imogen Heap acts like an unusual china doll, revolving round whilst her wind-up key turns. The room itself consists of cluttered toys and dolls giving it a sense of innocence. Along her collar bone is a vine of leaves giving the idea of fantasy. Later on in the video, her skirts lift up to reveal a dolls house. This reveals more of the narrative. Within a little room is a miniature doll representing the artist. The doll is dancing with a man. In the shadows is a crooked, old doll. To me, I believe the narrative is that she is trapped by an evil old man, but has fallen in love with another. I particularly like the theme of finding love in a dark place, where you wouldn't expect to find it. I may use this as part of my narrative for my music video.