Analysis Music Videos

Analysis of 'Foo Fighters: The Pretender'

The official music video for the Foo Fighters' 'The Pretender' is a extremely basic performance based video, what makes the video interesting however is the quick cuts and the seemingly challenging camera shots used.

As I said in the opening, the music video itself is a performance, as there is the tradition band set-up

(Image of band set up here)

however this seems to change from around the second verse as there is a 'riot' control member introduced, and later more members are introduced. This may show and help give meaning to the track title 'The Pretender' as all the 'riot' control members each have a number, where as the band doesn't they are individual, although they remain in the 'alternative rock' stereotype. Throughout the track the lines:
"What if I say I'm not like the others" and "What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays, your the pretender, what if I say that I'll never surrender" this implies a confilct of stereotypes, eg the typical 'rockers' and the numbered riot officers. The band members each have their own persona where as the riot officers only have a number to relate to (figurtively speaking).



The tempo of the music video increases after approximately 00:00:32 (32 seconds in)along with quick cuts and  focus points from the drums, followed by a guitar (not sure if solo is right). Later in the music video 00:03:17 to 00:03:27 (to be precise), the tempo gets reduced back to a similar beat to the beginning of the track, accompanied with a slight slow-mo effect and long shots to imply that there is a somewhat large impact point, followed at 00:03:28 by the implied impact point, until the ending or 'out-ro' which has the stereotypical, smashing of instruments on the floor.


Analysis of 'Foo Fighters: Best of You'



The music video for Best of you is a traditional performance piece with a fair amount of cut away, to keep the audience interested. The song it self is a 'softer' take on the 'rock' genre.

The establishing shot of the music video is a close up of the mic. and the vocalist, this suggests a sort of intimacy between the audience and the vocalist (approx. 00:00:00 to 00:00:43) during the opening, the close up shots alternate between close ups and extreme close ups. After this shot there is a small series of seemingly unrelated cutaway (approx. 00:00:44 to 00:00:46) that are used to keep the audience interested just after there is yet another close up, which then on the line 'I needed somewhere to hang my head' there is a impact point and a change to a band performance shot, mixed with close ups and cut away.

Analysis of 'Linkin Park: Breaking the Habit'



Linkin Park 'Breaking the Habbit' is track 9 from the album Meteora the music video for this track is different from the others as it is an AMV (animated music video), and the main insperation for my preposed AMV.
The video to this is a narritive, although I'm not quite sure of the plot. The narrative also appears to be reversed until the last part of the song, which is a rooftop performance but it doesn't seem to explain anything to do with 'why' the lead singer is on the bonnet of a car.
As the track title sugests the plots may be people that have certain habits that need changing, there is one plot in which a female character who is later revealed to be pregnant throws several objects at their partner, who is later revealed to be cheating on the female character perhaps this is the male's 'habit'. There is another character who appears to have a syringe full of a green substance, perhaps this is touching on drug abuse as a 'habit'.
The animation itself is smooth with a varied amount of shot types and angles, as well as cutaway to the seperate plots to keep the viewer interested