Lady Sovereign - I Got You Dancing

• Taken from her second album.

• Released 6th April 2009.

• Hip-hop, Rap, Grime, Electronic, Funk.

• Thriller style video, lots of make up and costume changes.

• Both narrative and concept .

• Fast paced editing, very short takes, lots of cutting to the beat featured.

• Lots of close ups of Lady Sovereign.

• Quick camera movements, makes it feel like it has lots of energy.

• Stop motion photography is used.

• Lots of shot variety included and good use of different and interesting angles.

• Lots of 'looking' is featured especially straight through the camera lens to the audience.

Tenacious D - Tribute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcJwz7wu8_s&ob=av2n (embed code disabled)

• American rock band that formed in L.A.in in 1994.

• Comedy rock, hard rock, some critics also call it 'mock rock'.

• Made up of Jack Black and Kyle Grass.

• They've released 2 albums.

• 'Tribute' is the first single off their self-tittles album that was released in July 2002.

• The song tells the story of their encounter with a demon that demands them to play the best song in the world. They make up a song on the spot and it just happens to be the best and the demon was amazed. But the lyrics then make out that this song that they have just come up with on the spot doesn't actually sound anything like this and it's a tribute towards it.

• Before the song itself starts there is a narrative section that makes the music video into a small film. Jack Black and Kyle Grass enter into a cheap shopping centre karaoke booth thats been re-wired to record their tribute.

• The video was directed and edited by Liam Lynch.

• There isn't really much camera movement involved in the video.

• Use of diagetic sounds.

• Graphics program has been used for the part when they see the demon.

• Generally slow paced editing and fairly long takes are used.

• It also features some celebrities, for example, Dave Grohl plays the demon, and at another point Ben Stiller walks past the 'recording' booth.

• Narrative/ Performance

Grunge Metal [The Seattle Sound]

• Originated in the late 80's

• Influenced by heavy-metal, hardcore, punk and indie rock

• Key bands include Nirvarna, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Soundgarden.

• It was made to combat against the hair meta genre because they saw that as a joke.

• Sound Garden - Black Hole Sun - narrative performance, strange theme used which is very controversial

• Pearl Jam - Jeremy - essentially narrative but with a few aspects of performance but it just includes the lead singer, extended intro and lots of use of colour filters on the camera lens.

• Alice In Chains - Them Bones - performance video, strange camera filters used, these give a weird tone to the whole feel of the video, cave/dessert setting which links into the their album cover of 'Dirt'.

• Nirvarna - Smells Like Teen Spirit - performance video, located in a gym in a school however they were more focussed and fussed about their music rather than how they looked. The youths are shown in the video lots to show and prove that they care about them. There is very little emphasis about what the band are wearing they weren't very bothered about what they looked like or their identity, it's very simplistic but most of the members of the band have long hair. There songs and videos often include very controversial and rebellious aspects.

• Lots of Grunge Metal videos relate quite a lot to their lyrics.

Thrash Metal

• Fast tempo and lots of aggression, fast percussion, low guitar riffs, shredding style of guitar playing
• Big 4 Thrash Metal bands: Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeath, Metallica.
• Anthrax - Madhouse - it's set in-front of a mental asylum mixed in with theperformance concept. Fast takes in time with the music split screen effect is used.
• Metallica - Fade To Black - completely performance based, footage taken from an actual live gig, black is used quite a lot and it helps to signify the genre, they are also wearing black.
• As with most performance music videos, there is lots of focus put on the lead singer and in Thrash Metal they are normally male and sometimes topless. 

Weezer - Island In The Sun (Spike Jonze Version)

• Concept video

• Involves the band in a hot place (maybe Africa?) near mountains, playing with cute and cuddly animals.

• Very soft lighting and slow motion makes it nice for people to watch and it makes it accessible for a very broad range of audiences so that more people will want to watch it and buy the music. There's nothing within the video that could be objected about.

Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff

• Performance video with some aspects of concept included. very typical to the genre of 'Nu-Metal', lots of leaning into the camera and looking straight through it and at certain points a fish eye lens is used.

• Includes loads of different people including celebrities such as Eminem.

• There are some big crowd scenes that the fan base helped with, this show that the band are loyal to their fans and they care about them.

• Nu-Metal band, one of the most iconic from the sub-genre

• Includes the band members showing off and proving that they can play their instruments. At certain points some of them switch instruments.

Nu-Metal [Rap]

• Korn, Linkin Park, Rage Against The Machine, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit.

• Critics say that the genre is disappearing because some of the bands are creating different genres, but others say that the genre is recovering because Limp Bizkit has a new album coming out.

• Their songs are about suffering and bad things that they have taken from their personal life (such as drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide, pain, paranoia, hurtetc..). This fits in with their target audience of teens so they will be able to relate to it a lot.

• The mainstream success of this genre was in the 1990's - 2000's 

• Mostly performance videos with narrative concept ideas also included that fits in with the lyrics. In the video for 'Papa Roach - Last Resort' the audience were surrounding the stage).

• The clothing of the people included in the music video help to anchor the genre.

• Very realistic which is quite different from many other metal videos.

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine

• Shot in black and white, howevere it has a few colour sequences included. Black and white can tend to be a little risky but they were a big band at the time so they could take the risk and use it.

• They use the idea of removing the fourth wall and looking behind the scenes which is a little unusual, but this shows a more personal side to the band.

• The band logo is shown straight away on the bass drum, and on the backdrop behind the band, this provides anchorage for the audience.

• It uses the ideology of the performance music video, however it's filmed in a warehouse but with no audience just the film crew and technicians etc.

• There is lots of background footage used as if a fan has taken it. Other camera's filming the band and lights are also shown so you can see the process of the video being made.

• Some cutting to the beat is used and the editing speeds up (especially during the instrumental break).

• It's a post modern video, even at the time that it was made. The actual meaning of the video is a little obscure and it can't really be pinned down.