1. · Find what albums they have released over the years with dates of release and the
singles from the album. Find the album artwork too.
· Look at about 6 videos spanning the duration of their careers and from a variety of
the albums.
· Look at things that remain the same and don’t change – this is called brand identity: it
is part of the way the artist is styled and presented to the public.
· Look at ways the videos develop, improve and change over time – what do you think
this symbolises or indicates about the artists?
· Look for ways in which the video might link or connect with the album artwork in
some way (similar colours, imagery, styling, haircuts, settings, anything!)
· Think about budgets for the videos
· Add anything else about how the videos are tied to the song, the artists, and help us
to understand them in a better way.

2. ‘Showbiz’
• Released: 1999.
• Record Label: Mushroom.
• Song: 13.
‘Origin of symmetry’
• Released: 2001.
• Record Label: Mushroom.
• Songs: 12.
‘Hullabaloo’
• Released: 2002.
• Record Label: Mushroom.
• Songs: 21 (2 discs).
‘Absolution’
• Released: 2003.
• Record Label: Mushroom.
• Songs: 15.
‘Black holes and revelations’
• Released: 2006.
• Record Label: Helium 3.
• Songs: 12.
‘Haarp’
• Released: 2008.
• Record Label: Helium 3.
• Songs: CD-14. DVD-21.
‘The Resistance’
• Released: 2009.
• Record Label: Warner Brothers.
• Songs: 11.
‘The 2nd Law’
• Released: 2011.
• Record Label: Warner bro’s.
• Songs:13.
‘Drones’
Released:2015.
Record Label: Warner bro’s.
Songs:-

3. 1) ‘Mercy’
2) ‘Dead inside’
3) ‘Psycho’
4) ‘Panic station’
5) ‘Supremacy’
6) ‘Follow me’
7) ‘Madness’
8) ‘Neutron star
collision’
9) ‘Resistance’
10) ‘Undisclosed
desires’
11) ‘Uprising’
12) ‘Map of the
Problematic’

4. 13) ‘Invincible’
14) ‘Nights of
Cydonia’
15) ‘Starlight’
16) ‘Supermassive
Black hole’
17) ‘Butterflies and
hurricanes’
18) ‘Sing for
absolution’
19) ‘Hysteria’
20) ‘Time is
running out’
21) ‘Stockholm
Syndrome’
22) ‘Dead
star/in your
world’
23) ‘Feeling
good/hyper
music’
24) ‘Bliss’

5. 25) ‘New Born’
26) ‘Plug in
baby’
27) ‘Muscle
museum’
28) ‘Unintended’
29) ‘Sunburn’
30) ‘Muscle
museum’
31) ‘Cave’
32) ‘Undo’
33) ‘Muscle
museum EP’
34) ‘Muse EP’

6. Narrative.
Low budget.
Use of instruments.
Nothing that costs much,
just a simple setting with a
camera, cast and
instruments.
Lots of hand held
camera, giving the
audience the tense
feeling of the song.
Narrative is very
fictional, lots of
imaginary scenes.
Low budget
production values.

7. Performance.
Narrative.
More money spent on
this one, includes special
effects.
However, still quite a low
budget production values.
Indecent imagery
of women- hardly
any clothes on.
Men fully clothed.
Plenty of
voyeurism.
Very
fictional.

8. Performance.
Narrative.
Use of instruments.
Voyeurism.
Fictional.
Seems to be higher in
budget.
Mise-en-scene
such as props,
costumes,
backgrounds etc..
Wants the audience
to feel like the
singers are on a
roller-coaster.
As the music gets more tense and upbeat the
narrative seems to become more tense, such as
dull colours, fire, etc..

9. Performance.
Narrative.
Use of
instruments.
Lighting is very dull and quite calm colours,
however when the chorus of the song
comes the colours appear very dangerous
and tense, reds and blacks etc..
Non-fiction.
No special affects,
seems like it was a
low budget video.Dancers are very
perfectly in time,
until the chorus
appears, could
show that when
the ‘time runs out’
everything will go
wrong.

10. Narrative.
Fictional- dolls
becoming alive.
Real life people
(the band) same
size as the dolls.
Performance,
use of
instruments.
Explosives.
Dolls start to melt by the fire,
shows that the band (muse) have
power and are “victorious”.
Teddy’s come alive and
turn evil.

11. Narrative.
Shows humans
acting like and
been treat like
animals.
Narrative shows a
human being used
for animal testing.
Average in
budget.
At the end finally shows the man being
treat like a human.