The first ‘rock’ music video I have looked and created screen-grabs for is Ignorance by Paramore.
I believe that this is a very ironic ‘rock’ video, firstly I feel that the performers straight away give away that they are a rock group. Just by their costumes, as they are all in dark clothing and each have their own instruments. Also, the lead singer definitely shows that she is in a ‘rock’ video, almost promoting the genre by her brightly coloured hair and wearing really skinny jeans, with common shoes like Converse. With this style, each band member is confident when they perform and the singers lip-synching is perfect, making it believable for the viewer when watching the video.
The lighting in ‘rock’ video is usually dark and dull, but in this video the lighting is constantly dark throughout with one little light in the video, and the light is being pulled about everywhere, almost showing the confusion and madness of the video, making the audience more interested to how the band actually performs. Also, with one light in each frame, the main focus is able to be on anything, like in shot 6 its on the lead singer and a guitarist, but in the shot you can only see their faces making it mysterious.
I believe that this is a very ironic ‘rock’ video, firstly I feel that the performers straight away give away that they are a rock group. Just by their costumes, as they are all in dark clothing and each have their own instruments. Also, the lead singer definitely shows that she is in a ‘rock’ video, almost promoting the genre by her brightly coloured hair and wearing really skinny jeans, with common shoes like Converse. With this style, each band member is confident when they perform and the singers lip-synching is perfect, making it believable for the viewer when watching the video.
The lighting in ‘rock’ video is usually dark and dull, but in this video the lighting is constantly dark throughout with one little light in the video, and the light is being pulled about everywhere, almost showing the confusion and madness of the video, making the audience more interested to how the band actually performs. Also, with one light in each frame, the main focus is able to be on anything, like in shot 6 its on the lead singer and a guitarist, but in the shot you can only see their faces making it mysterious.
The mise-en-scene in this ‘rock’ video is basic, for example the costumes don’t change throughout the video, but one reason could because you can’t actually see them and also the location doesn’t change drastically, as they go from a small room to large area where the band can perform. However, I feel that this does work well due the lighting arrangement, as the light almost creates confusion for the viewer and makes them wonder where the band actually is as they are unable to see where they are, as seen in shot 1.The cinematography in this ‘rock’ video is a bit messy, but looks really good. To with the idea of confusion, each frame shows a sense of confusion as the band is rocking about and use of tracking/panning the band makes it a lot crazier. Also, I like how they have lost the sense of rule of thirds, as each frame the performer is never central, maybe trying to show the audience that this song is really crazy and that the viewers should lose themselves in the music.
Overall, I feel that this ‘rock’ video promotes the genre of ‘rock’ well because the lighting is very dark, the bands costumes relate to the genre and the performance shows that they are crazy like a rocker.
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