Summer Blog post 5

In the music video Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith-La La the music video tells a story to the viewers rather than performing on a stage at a concert to as the video is based on a old folks tale similar to the wizard of oz. The music video itself is very strange to some if they have no understanding of Bolivian stories. The story plays along with the lyrics itself to keep in line with the story adding emotion to the music video. The camera movements shown sync up with the emotions shown from the factors in it, such as zooming in to the main characters faces such as the angry father figure at the start it zooms in to his house to show his anger. It does this again when the man is in the gym and he realizes he is a free to leave it does a close up to his face showing him smiling this connotes his happiness.

The song itself is rather childless which does make sense seeing as that it is a children's story that the music video is based on, and that the main actor in the video is a child. To others this video could be very creepy and disturbing without a little insight into the background of it. The lyrics especially this specific part:
"When you spit your venom, keep it shut I hate it, When you hiss and preach About your new messiah 'cause your theories catch fire"
This shows the adult part of the song but it almost contradicts itself as it uses the very childish action of covering your ears and saying "la la la" which seems to conflict between who the song it aimed for but it does this cleverly as it shows men performing the action and basically gives off the message that even a child understands that not everything everyone says is true and that you have to listen the way the lyrics are written is in a very playful way regardless of the unrealistic acting.

The music video is very upbeat in the song despite the video being rather dark at the very beginning and at the very end, the happiness comes from the happiness distributed from the child to others in the music video it keeps itself together and makes you feel emotional about the leaving of the child at the end but if you understood the story you would understand the reasons behind this and that its still a happy song regardless.

Summer Blog Post 4

Nirvana Come as you are basically tells the audience not to be someone your not as the title itself explains, it shows that we should not be afraid to reveal our true identities no matter how other people feel about us. The music video itself does not show Nirvana the actual band members as they truly are as their faces are either shown behind water or their faces being mismatched so as that we never get a clear image of who they truly are. The music video tries to do this to show that this is the world we live in were people no matter how big they are usually have to hide their true identities Nirvana in this music video tries to send off the message that this is what needs to change, not our identities but our attitudes. They do this by revealing their true faces at the very end of the song.

The lyrics in the song contain and repeat the same lyric "I don't have a gun" this is done to show that there is no physical danger as they represent no harm to anyone else. The song seems to try and show what we as people are expected to act like in society as one line says "Take your time, Hurry up" this is contradictory as it says that we are only half doing that we are meant to do as in "Taking our time" an then following what society wants us to do which is "Hurry up".

The camera shots used connote lots of madness as they are quick and there is a lot of them, there is a lot of things in the video that have coded messages and meaning behind them such as the man swinging from a bar, this connotes madness and that we should let loose from our typical selves rather than lead the laid back lives that were expected to follow. The dog with an Elizabeth collar (the big lamp shade type collar around its neck) would normally connote that a dog has a medical condition but in this video its tied to a chain and its used to stop the dog from biting others the message behind it is that we are all tied up not allowed to be let loose from society.

Nirvana's music videos always contain very subtle message as Kobain once stated that he wants people to look at his music videos in extreme detail to make sure they pay attention. Nirvana give off a good message overall in nearly all of their music videos this is to show that they are good role models for other bands to take after.

Summer Blog post 3

The music Video from Eminem, is from his very well known song "Slim Shady". The music video is filled with comedy moments to show his playful character as well as his enjoyment in music. The music video is clearly meant to stand out from the regular music videos and also to make Eminem more well known to the public as "Miley Cyrus" has done with her music videos. Eminem's lyrics and the music video combine together as a funny video.

The lyrics make very subtle insults about other artists, this is done to show the public that he feels that he is the best rapper/artist out there and that he is above them in terms of his ability. Eminem takes a very strange unconventional look at this music video as he makes jokes about himself to show hes comfortable in front of the camera. This however is nontraditional as artists such as 50 cent would never show the same comedy value that Eminem does as they tend to rap about violence and extreme issues.

In the music video, some camera shots show Eminem looking down the camera (this does this a number of times) this shows Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) in a position of power as hes above the centre looking down the camera at the audience showing his power and hes authority. Eminem does some very extreme actions in this music video such as in the Unedited video he shows a obese man revealing his genitalia and also puts his two fingers up to the camera, but Eminem loves his audience and he does this to show how he doesn't care about what people think about him or his music video.

Summer Blog post - 2

This Music video is probably the strangest music video to be made in 2013, hopefully, the use of all the seductive and revealing outfits tries to show off originality it all has a meaning behind it but its still a very very confusing video. The outfits and the absurdity shown throughout the whole of the video will of been created to show Miley Cyrus' coming of age and that shes not a children's TV star anymore.

The use of colours vary from scene to scene, from pitch black to pure white to symbolize purity the actions shown is very original and its like nothing we've scene from this actress and its very stand out and strange. The video is very hard to analyze and there is no set theme besides randomness i think its meant to show how no one can tell you what to do so basically do what you want as the lyrics say.

In terms of the artist personality I think shes aiming to proves an adult and that she can make her own choices in life, but this music video kinda proves shes still living in a rowdy teenagers world as the scenes from this music video can be seen in some people parties(but less about that).  The music video was made to provoke a reaction to get the media to criticize her and say bad stuff but all this has done has got more of an audience to watch it and given the music video more popular ratings. as the lyrics and song itself are very bland and the music video was also created to try and spice things up and to give the audience something to look forward to from the artist rather than just a bland boring song.

Summer Blog Post 1

The Killers Mr Brightside video is a very strange music video that plays with the emotions of the lead singer, it seems to evolve around him and we see through his eyes what hes seeing, with his brain being tortured due to his feelings for the girl in blonde in the music video.

The music video shows a performance and a story simultaneously mixed together, to make us feel apart of it and for us to have an emotional bond with the artist rather than just watching them perform without any story line being played out.

In my opinion the music video reminds me of the movie Moulin rouge in a way due to the way they are both portrayed also the colours are quite similar, but the setting is definitely similar. shown below

There are scenes in this music video to show sparks of interest between the two main characters, such as when they are standing on the balcony fireworks can be seen this connotes a spark between them and love. The men just sitting around being mesmerized by the women connote that they see the woman purely as a object of beauty rather than dancers or entertainers. The storyline transfers into the future to make us feel a connection between the two characters, but all in all the music video isn't very strong and isn't extremely powerful as the band is already well known and the song on its on already has a strong sense about it so adding them together is a good mixture and lets the audience have both good senses from visual effects and hearing from the song itself.

Parody and Pastiche

Pastiche:

Is different to parody but the two concepts are not far from each other, pastiche is a somewhat copy of an original, below is an example of pastiche, The original (Silence of the Lambs) was created to show the evilness in the character played by Anthony Hopkins, the "Mask" shows just how dangerous the character is. Next to him shows Mr Burns who is somewhat of an evil character himself, on the outside people would say it represents a parody but looking closer shows the evilness of the character rather than mocking the original  it copies it.

My own opinion: In my own opinion I think that pastiche is a more serious style concept rather than parody and it has a deeper meaning rather than just a joke of an original.

Parody:
Parody is a deliberate exaggeration for comedy effect to please the audience, parody can be formatted on a number of different types of media and it can also be used to parody a lot of different serious things such as people, movies, and TV shows. Below is a definite example of parody, it shows the comedy genre and it shows the actor in the video (Jack Black)  playing to the audience and twisting the harmless actions shown in Spider man into other actions. There is also no seriousness in it due to the light hearted tone of the voice of the actors.

A music video that is an example of a parody is the one shown below as although the sound is the exact same and he is just miming he is still mocking her. Greg James although very funny has in no way praised or rewarded Miley Cyrus, it is essentially an act of disrespect in order for more people to compare the two songs as it brings fans of Miley Cyrus over to watch the music video and due to the mass size of social network it will be tweeted and shared all over the place creating a larger fan base and music video population

Samuel Bayer Auteur

Samuel Bayer is a well respected music video director, who had created music videos for many highly respected artists such as Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Nirvana.

Samuel Bryer tells a story through the music video to give the audience something to focus on and give them more visual effects along with a strong audio backbone. His music videos require little light and tend to be focused on one or two colours to keep the effect continuous his music videos  are powerful and have led the way for other younger directors to follow in pursuit of his style.

Below is a  Nirvana music video created by Samuel bayer, you'll notice how something is always happening on the screen to keep the audience interested and enticed.




Samuel's work artistry also includes:

. Green Day- American idiot


. Justin Timberlake- What goes around comes around


. Robbie Williams- Angel


His work is probably the most famous out of the three "Auteurs" I have studied he has done work for the bigger stars and created the more well known music videos which shows he certainly fixed the category