Music Video Idea: 1

Since I dispise popular music and only like classics from bands that sing not mime. I have decided to focus my research on Rock/Metal/Classic Rock genres of music and will select a song from my library to conduct a music video after having done more research.

Taking Dawn: Time To Burn Analysis

Taking Dawn - Time To Burn
It would defiantly seem that rock music videos have women in them as a standard. This is band who have only pretty much just started out. As seen in the video editing is little to none other than the fast paced cuts and the dubbing is very off. The video would be quite difficult since it mixes a story with the band actually doing the story rather than others so the band singer sings, which is perhaps why the dubbing is a little lame.

Spinal Tap: Majesty Of Rock Analysis

Spinal Tap - The Majesty Of Rock

If ZZ Top are low budget then Spinal Tap are even more low budget. The fact that there are some cuts which are simply Microsoft Word letters (ROKC). It would also appear that in this video the band don't leave their instruments simply take them with them into open spaces. The cuts are also much longer, however the editing is even more simple, Queen head mask made me laugh when I saw it as did the cheap half done props, although the camera work is brilliant in the video with its many corny angles like sweeping long shots and close ups or moving variants on the two.

ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin' Analysis

ZZ Top - Give Me All Your Loving

The video begins with a set up of a story, in fact the whole video is story of a guy trying to attract women. It would seem that for a rock video like ZZ Top a story is standard. Most of the video is story also means that I lose some of the problems of dubbing which in other media videos is very noticeable. Only toward the end of the video is the band seen actually playing their instruments which shows that instruments aren't always needed in a video. The video also uses lots of add remove editing of a frame then having the band stand then shoot the frame again without the band. A cheap and effective editing method.

Metallica - The Unforgiven II Analysis

Metallica - The Unforgiven II
More of a metal video than a rock video. The song is more of dark setting in a gloomy cave somewhere. The simplicity in my opinion makes it seem rather boring. One aspect I do like however is the part when the camera focuses on the singer (James Hetfield) and he talks to the camera. The action is focuses solely on the singer, until the guitar solos with small cuts to the drummer and bassist. It is seen in all the videos that the focus is all the time on the singer.

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I am Brad Linney this is my second blog for A level media studies, this is my A2 advanced portfolio.