Analysis of Sabotage- Beastie Boys

Song- Sabotage
Artist- Beastie Boys
Director- Spike Jones

Target Audience - The core audience of the music video would be fans of the band and they would be similar ages to the band members. The majority of the fans of the band would be males
Narrative Structure
Pastiche of a typical American show; Starsky & Hutch, Dukes of Hazard etc. Its portrayed as a cops v robbers crime show with no constant story lines but short, sharp different plot parts which are broken up. It doesn't follow a classic narrative which was dictated by "Propp".
Setting
There are dozens of locations which results in a numerous amount of spoofs that can be shown. This makes the video more entertaining and exciting for the viewer. The different situations and dramas shown through the setting are displayed as unrealistic and humerous. The audience can therefore relate and understand the humour and plott of the music video. The producer focuses on the situations being unrealistic as it's more entertaining for the target audience to see the band act out the situations drastically.
Characters
The characters are made up from the band members which is what the audience are expecting and want. Its meeting viewers expectations, this is a clear convention of this type of genre.
Costume
Moustaches are worn, big side burns are see combined with big hair, smart suits and sunglasses- all of these things relating to the 70's and are typical of police officers in this era and type of genre. This is known as intertextuality as its recreating scene's of a crime show genre.
Lyrics
The lyrics are powerful and strong which reflects the action theme and overall genre of the video. The video doesn't follow the songs lyrics word for word but is portrayed through the feel of the song and the way it's sung. The strong lyrics are mirrored in the strong action related video.
Special effects
The special effects are poor but are done this way purposely to again, reflect the american crime shows that were present in the 70's. The random explosions fits in with the cop show theme and the man falling off the bridge is a dummy witch re-enacts the spoof.
Camera angles and editing
The pace of the video matches the tempo of the song which matches the spoof american crime shows. For example; the tacky captions that are used throughout the video. There are a variety of shots, distances including crash zooms and fast editing. This keeps the audience interested and excited. The music follows the action, as the music slows down the shots slow down too. This reinforces the match of editing to the tempo