Dan Black

In Dan Black's 'Symphonies' there are many intertextual references.
The first of these is the opening of the video which is similar to the 'Universal' movie clip in which the world is rotating, Dan has made his own copy of this in which he has a planet rotating which looks like the moon (i think it probably is) with UN pictures covering it.  This gives the video a sense of it being the opening of a movie.  When the beat kicks in we then see a clip of a road which then has Dan Black's name rolling down and the songs name, this has been copied from the opening scene of Lost Highway where we see the shot moving down a road with the credits coming up above the lines in the road.  There is a reference from the original TRON film in which the artist is hovering above a simulated area lit up with green lines with green arrows flyring around as if he were in some virtual gaming system, just like in the TRON movie.  There is a clip taken from the movie Starman with a spaceship flyring across the screen giving the video a sci-fi type theme as these kinds of clips run thoughout the video.  There is then a clip showing the artists falling down inbetween building and this has been copied from the film Sin City where we have the black and white colour theme with the Red writing which is similar to the Sin City title.  Next there is a reference used from the film 'Symphonies' and so the audience can then see that this is where the influence for the song title has come from.  The video then goes on to having refernces from Bond films where we see a figure of a woman and we can see the artist through her, this is used mainly in the opening of the Bond films.  There is then a reference from the film Bonanza where we see the artist in what is obviously an old western style shot with the credits in the font used in western films.  Elements of The film Donnie Darko have been put into the video where we see the artist through a mid shot with smoke surrounding him and a black background and this quickly changes to him having a rabbit mask on, and this, for anyone who has seen Donnie Darko, can be immediatly recognised as there is a character in the movie who wears a rabbit outfit.  It then goes on to a Thunderbird type clip with the artist as a big headed puppety figure driving a toy car around which is noticably similar to Thunderbirds as well as the credits that come up similar to the Thunderbirds title to reinforce the idea.  At the end of the video there is then the credits reading 'The End' in the fonts of all of the movies that Dan Black has included in his video.
The use of addition in this video is that the artist has brought together a variety of different narratives and made it into one.
The use of deletion in this video is that the narratives are only shown as the opening's of each or the endings where the rest is not shown, there is a continuous use of this throughout the video.
The use of substitution is used throughout the whole video for every clip where Dan Black has replaced the characters from each narrative with himself and all of the scenes he has replaced with his own inspiration of each scene. 
The use of transposition is that the artist has brought together for example a spce theme and an old western theme and edited it to make it fit to his own advantage and made it work, nothing in the video really fits with anything in the video and so this is why what he has done has created a new meaning.