Friday, 18 April 2014

I have been looking at other music videos within the same genre of my artist and narrowed the investigation to female artists, as I am using a female artist. One band I decided to look at was Paramore, a rock band with a female lead vocalist. The style of the music and lyrics are very similar to ones my artist writes and performs.  The first video I analysed was Brick By Boring Brick by Paramore. 


One of the main elements in the video is the super natural and hyperreality. One of the main characters is a little girl with butterfly wings, exploring a new world she has found. Although it seems exciting at first the character soon realises just how scary and lonely it is and she then she's the dark and corrupted parts of the world.



In this video there isn't any band performance shots which I found was uncommon in videos in the genre. The vocalist is shown throughout the video and looks like she is the older version of the little girl who got lost in the new world. The audience get that impression throughout the majority of the video but later realises that she's not when they cross paths. The video has a very mysterious tone to the video as it only reveals secrets in the video towards the end. 


The colours in the video have been very over enhanced, giving it an artificial look. The audience and tell the world has been created and the over enchanted colours show that maybe everything is not as it seems and adds a slight dystopian tone to the video.





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