Rock Music Videos.

I chose the genre Rock but the new style of rock and focused on bands that are around today, these 5 bands I have selected have very similar music videos.

This is We Are The Ocean- The Waiting Room.

 

This is Young Guns- Crystal Clear.

This is The Blackout- Higher And Higher.

This is Lostprophets- Last Train Home.

This is Billy Talent- Rusted From The Rain.

Firstly the conventions of these music videos are normally black clothing, instruments, long hair, skinny jeans, about certain people struggling, tattoos, piercings, the band doing a performance in some way sometimes with a crowd and other times without and sometimes they include a bit of black and white within the video.

The camera shots mainly focus on the lead singer and the band, show a lot of close ups on the lead singers face so the audience can connect with him also show emotion but to reflect the words of the song with the movement of the lips of the lead singer. When showing the band doing their performance they are normally medium/ long shots. The camera moves to track the band as they move so there is a fair bit of panning, tilting and the camera zooming out from the lead singer so you can suddenly see the rest of the band. 

The cutting rate is normally fast so it matches the song and the movement of the band members which are normally jumping around therefore they need to have a fast cutting rate otherwise it would look weird with fast tempo music and the band members jumping around but moving from shot to shot was really slow. There is also a lot of jump cuts jumping from one thing to another just to keep the video up to speed with the song.

Sound wise there isn't much that is additional sound as the song is the main sound throughout the video therefore there isn't really much need for sound effects etc.

Rock videos have developed over time as back in the 80s they use to just play on stage to a crowd and that would be there music video but today with rock bands they try to portray a story within there music video so it keeps there audience move involved as they normally do both just cross cut between the two.