Goodwin's 6 key features:
Genre Conventions (Grunge Rock):
- Long scraggly hair
- Corduroy jacket
- Intense vocals
- Storytelling atmosphere (singer sitting down, looking intensely ahead and singing)
Relationship Between Lyrics & Visuals:
- Shots of young boy "Jeremy" as the story progresses. Quite literal interpretation - as the story goes on, Jeremy is shown in the scenes described by the singer, eg. "drawing pictures of mountain tops" and "clearly I remember picking on the boy"
- Lyrics are in the style of a memory of an event, so Eddie Vedder sitting down and facing the camera as he sings fits the lyrical theme of recounting a story
- Random details of the day the boy shot himself flash up of the screen like newspaper cuttings, emphasising the idea of a news story being retold
- The line "Jeremy spoke in class today" takes on a twisted irony when the video shows himself shooting himself at the front of the classroom
Relationship Between Music & Visuals:
- Slowly building, atmospheric track which echoes Jeremy's increasingly mentally unstable state, culminating in his eventual suicide (the climax of the song)
- Emphasised by atmospheric camera panning around Eddie Vedder, and faster cuts as the urgency of the song increases. Finally, we get almost strobe editing as the track climaxes and many disjointed images flash up on the screen, illustrating the confusion and emotion of the song
Demands of Record Label:
- Massive emphasis and multiple close-ups of the lead singer and 'star' of the band, Eddie Vedder. Other band members don't even appear
- Eddie's signature corduroy jacket is worn throughout
Reference to the Notion of Looking:
- Direct address from lead singer, telling you the story
- Narrative fading in around him, revolving as if in his memory (we are looking into his thoughts)
- Singer looks down, skywards and straight past the camera, as if looking into the past
Intertextual References:
- Reference to newspaper articles throughout
- Reference to the Bible, both through quotations and through imagery, eg. flames
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