A2 Music Video (A Grade)

 

• The music video has very key camera shots such as a close up on the face of who we assume is to be the main protagonist of the narrative of this music video
• The main narrative of the video seems to be following a teacher who is challenged by anxiety of a different mental disorder possibly schizophrenia and it shows the story of how he is troubled by it in everyday life and shows how he is able to overcome this darkness shrouded him and face it head on 
• One of the shots at the beginning of the music video shows a drunk whiskey bottle which could signify that the protagonist uses drinking as a way to escape from his nightmare 

• The lead singer of the band I do not feel matches the vibe of the song as it is quite and aggressive and strong song while the look of the main singer seems to be more suited for a pop band  
• The lip syncing however is very good from both the lead singer and the other musicians 
• I do feel the rest of the band does a better job of looking more the part for a metal/metal inspired song.

                                  

• The target audience this band seems to be trying to appeal to is definitely fans of the rock/metal genre of music 
• The costumes for the narrative section of the music video makes it very clear what role the protagonist is supposed to be throughout the video as it shows he is a teacher of some sort this is also given away by one of the setting they chose for the music video which was a school looking classroom  

• there are several jump cuts shown as he is walking to and from work this could be seen as the editors wanting to add a cool visual aesthetic of it could have been used to reflect the mental state of the protagonist as quite jumpy/paranoid or scared of something 
• I was not able to pick out any intertextual references throughout the music video 

• This section of the video clearly shows his paranoia, that he is deeply afraid of something so much so even when in work he cowers in fear and tries to hide away 
• I feel they did a good job trying to convey the story in this video and that what they went with was a solid idea