Music Video Analysis- Goldie - "Inner City Life" / Marxism Theory Based

Artist(s)/ Band: Goldie
Track name: Inner City Life (album -Timeless)

Release date: 12^th September 1994,1995(Album)

Genre: Drum and Bass, Electro/Techno

The music video of a famous electro/techno DJ, Goldie, narrates the reality of a particular section of society, the lower middle class. Shining the light on the lives of the middle class instantaneously causes much of the audience to relate to the video, oppressing the status quo of how they (lower/middle class) are benefit dependant, have low work productivity and a leech to society, but in fact there lives are in fact hard to sustain even for a decent living to support family and keep surviving.

The majority of camera shots are low angle shots used to show the housing estates which visually looks unpleasant and creates an empowering enclosure to the lives of the people living in them. This negative amplifications are used to portray the reality of the life of people living in the city, hence the link to the title of the video "Inner City Life", with the sepia colour scheme used in the editing of the video, we get a sense of colourless, which can be also used to resemble emotionless characters. 

The mise en scene used in the video shows shows bills and empty trolleys, this representation shows the bombardment of money in which middle class people have to pay out to survive in order to get food and shelter, the empty trolley can be used to imply the lack of food and water, the money being absorbed through bills, any essentials are swallowed immediately and therefore families are in struggle to survive.