A2 Students Media Videos

These two videos are existing A2 music videos.

My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade. 

This video uses many interesting camera techniques and has an interesting video.

Some of the inspirational things in the video are;

• The black and white filter could with the fading film filter

• the footage matches the lyrics

• the pans are slow to represent the tone

• there are sections of the video that are out of focus, when the music is emotional

• there is a flare of light when the drums kick in

• The actors are very involved and make the video interesting

• they are in appropriate costume for their genre

• the band members actually know how to play the song so makes the atmosphere more legitimate

• the small enclosed space makes the band feel more intimate and powerful

• there's a lot of high contrast and filters 

• Extreme close up of the singer make the song more powerful

• filler shots relate to the story line

• ending was similar to to beginning

Machine Head - Bite the Bullet 

This video also has an interesting video.

Some of the inspirational things in the video are;

• Fish eye lens

• zoom on the instruments

• Flashing light

• shaking camera

• worms eye view

• camera moved with band

• Camera left by symbols to focus more on drummer

• 'Story' links with lyrics

• band are aggressive and fits well

• Camera fades out to show the end

I fell the my chemical romance video is better than the machine head one as they apear to have spent more time on it and have shot in multiple places.