The video is a montage of the band's tour showing the band behind the scenes as well as fans and the band performing, the music is the only thing carrying the video forward to some sort of ending, the end or the closure is the band finishing performing that song when they are on stage.
Editing:
The editing does match up with the song and the edits are a montage of a tour, the song does sync up with the performance at times but it doesn't happen often. The edits are obvious as it cuts from the band behind the scenes to them performing, the video is quick takes shown in a montage.
Camera Movement:
The video seems to be mostly made up of close up shots of the band and the fans that are shown in the video.
Diegesis:
There isn't much in terms of a diegesis, apart from a few scenes where the lyrics and the performance sync up there isn't much of a diegesis there.
The definition of an Autuer is a director having full control over a music video, this means the artist will just be told what to do. A few examples of Autuer directors are Spike Jonze, David Fincher, Chris Milk and Eric Wareheim. These directors sometimes include themselves in the video in some way this could be through a picture on the wall or to being an extra in the background Spike Jonze:
Spike Jonze has directed quite a few music videos and is maybe best known for his work on music videos, he directered music videos such as Fatboy Slim: Praise and Weapon of Choice, Tenacious D: Wonderboy and Daft Punk: Da Funk to name a few. He was the director for movies such as Her, Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich as well as the Jackass movies. His personal style throughout these video is that they have an off beat visual storytelling this is done through either live action or animation. He frequently casts and collaborates with Lance Acord (cinematographer), Charlie Kaufman (writer), Chris Cooper (actor) and Catherine Keener.
A video that goes with a song, these usually last the same length of the song (not all the time), features the artists in some way (not always), tell a story (don't have to), they aim to be visually memorable or good enough to make an audience want to watch again.
Early 60's
"The Monkees" was a TV show that used filmed segments that were accompanied with music by the same group. This was based off The Beatles first feature film "A Hard Days Night" which used sequences with musical tones in them this was used a basic template for future music videos to base themselves off. The second feature by The Beatles "Help!" was filmed in colour in London and used different clips, using long shots and close ups.
Late 70's
Long running show "Top Of The Pops" started to play music videos though they did have some retrctions placed on them by the BBC on the number of outsourced videos that could be played. This meant that a good video by an artist could mean more sales of that song.
1980's
In 1981 the U.S launched a channel called "MTV" airing "Video Killed the Radio Star" and began to air 24 hour a day music on television. This meant that music videos could become a central part in the popular music market, acts like Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants and Madonna had a great deal of success due to the videos having some sort of appeal to make people want to re watch them many times.
2005:
This year saw the launch of the website "YouTube" which made it easier and a lot more convenient to be able to watch music videos by any artist. This also meant that anyone with a camera could create a music video or anyone could make a parody video. The band "OK Go" who became famous online after publishing "A Million Ways" and "Here It Goes Again" which both became popular online. The band also use a special feature throughout their video that makes it eye catching and unique such as their latest video is a set of optical illusions.
2009:
The band "Thirty Seconds to Mars" released their music video for "Kings and Queens" at the same time of its release where the video got over 100 million views and was featured on iTunes as video of the week and became the most downloaded video to be featured.
Music video analysis: Disturbed - Another Way To Die
Song Meaning: The song is about basically about global warming and what the lead singer of the band believes the future will be like. An example of this is in the video the pool of fresh water that is caged off and guarded that has a timer with how long people can drink for it for and it shows the desperation by the woman trying to steal and extra jar of of the water.
How the video puts this across: The video puts across the idea of this wasteland of a future due to people ruining the planet "glaciers melt as we pollute the skies" being an example of the lyrics and in the video there is a montage throughout the beginning of disasters and destruction from around the world, in the video the difference between the present and the interpretation of the future is shown through the colours used in the video as the present is shown as being normal and has colour in the different clips however this is difference when compared to the "future" clips as they are grey scale showing very little colour and the areas are basically just an empty wasteland. The lyrics and video are matched up by evidence of what the singer is saying being shown in the video such as "glaciers melt as we pollute the skies" is shown as a small glacier melting and the followed up with a factory. "A sign of devastation coming" is shown with dead fish in poisonous water. Another line that maths up with the video is "the time bomb is ticking" is accompanied by petrol station counters quickly going up. The songs fast pace goes with the montage of clips that represent the different lines in the song.
The video gets its message across by being fast paced and using a montage with clips that feature examples and evidence of what the song is telling the audience, showing poverty during the chorus to go with the line "and the millions cry out to be saved".
Welcome to my Media A2 Blog. During this year for my A2 coursework i will be researching and studying music videos by analysing them and comparing the lyrics of the song to the music video, if i look back on the work i did last year during the AS course i have made progress in the way i used different software such as Photoshop. This year i will be continuing to develop in my use of software as i research music videos leading up to me creating my own music video.
