In today's lesson we watched a variety of different music videos. We noticed that even though some of them were filmed years apart the concept was still the same.
The first video we watched was for the pop song Tell Him by The Exciters, filmed in 1962.
It is filmed in a zoo and the camera switches between the singers and the animals. The video itself has absolutely no relation to the video at all. The singers are bright and cheery which fits in with the bright, cheery song lyrics and music.
We followed this by watching What Makes You Beautiful, another pop song, by One Direction. This video is a lot more modern as it was filmed in 2011.
The video is filmed at beach and once again the lyrics don't have a lot of relation to the video. It therefore follows a very similar structure to Tell Him, which was filmed 49 years earlier. It is another video portraying bright, cheery people singing a bright, cheery song.
Blink 182's video for All The Small Things is a parody of the stereotypical pop song video. It was filmed in 1999.
The video is made up of stereotypical elements commonly found in a music video. It has the performance element of them singing to a crowd of fans, singing and posing at a photo shoot, at a beach, singing to the camera and following a strict dance routine. The video has nothing to do with the lyrics of the song and as it is a parody they are merely only pretending to be bright and cheery.
The song You Got It, by New Kids on the Block, filmed in 1989, is very stereotypical boy band pop song.
They follow a structured dance routine and drive around being filmed having fun. It has a lot of the elements within it that Blink 182 over-exaggerated in their parody.
We then went on to look at a different style of video that has been carried on throughout the years.
We looked at Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit. The video was filmed in 2000.
It is made up of fan, the band and various celebrities singing the lyrics straight into the camera. The singers get more aggressive as the lyrics do, so to that extent the lyrics do relate to the video.
We also watched Rockstar, by Nickelback, which was filmed in 2007.
It takes the same idea as Limp Bizkit and is made up of fans, celebrities and random people singing the lyrics. In some cases the lyrics obviously relate to the person who is singing them.
Finally we looked at two videos by Bloodhound Gang. We watched The Bad Touch, filmed in 1999, and Why is Everybody Always Pickin' on Me, which was filmed in 1998.
Both videos are very humorous and each video have an obvious concept. The lyrics heavily relate to the video the whole way through making it easy to follow and understand.
Well done, Eleanor, this is a good blog. to improve this, you need to say what the similarities are between some of the videos (eg Exciters, 1D and even Blink182)
ReplyDeleteLook at some of the conventions which have been used and say if they act as any sort of inspiration (or not!)