Existing music videos - professonal

The Darkness - Open Fire  (April 2015)

This video is, in my opinion, the perfect mix between narrative and performance. The video starts with a setting of a scene, and then the band leader (Justin Hawkins) entering a room with his guitar. From this we then see footage of the band (in the location that was set in the first shot) playing and lip syncing the opening of the song. The rest of the video then cuts to a narrative and back to the band throughout, and the main character featured in the video is Justin. At the end of the video, we see him walking back through the room in which he entered at the start, creating the feeling of a circular narrative and finishing off the video perfectly.



Halestorm - I get Off (October 2009)

The video for this song, from pop rock band Halestorm's 2nd album, is a great mix of narrative and band lip syncing that features a very clear and strong narrative. The two locations used are a garage style room in which the band are playing, and a room (presumably in a prison) where a hooded figure is being confronted by some sort of authority. One thing that I found very interesting in this video was the CCTV (within the room) playing on a small screen outside the room. This is because sometimes we would see the hooded figure being confronted, and other times the band were in the room instead. At the end of the video we find out that, like in the video for Open Fire by The Darkness, the lead singer of the band (Lzzy Hale) is the character featured throughout the narrative. I think this technique works as it allows for an easy crossover between the band playing and the story.


OK Go - The writing's On the Wall (June 2014)

This video is quite different to the two above. Firstly, rather than using editing, this appears to be all in one shot. As well as this, there is no narrative, nor is there footage of a band playing. We do however, see lip syncing from each person as visual illusions of shapes, faces, words and phrases appear on the camera. I think that this video, much like other videos by this band, is innovative, impressive, and different. It does however create the problem of their video becoming more well known than their actual music and after watching this video, I have no idea what the song sounded like. I do not think that I will do this sort of video because we do not have the facilities, but we may take on the idea of a one shot video.