Both of these album covers are from the artist Muse, what i found from this artwork is that between the time span of the two albums they still decided to use a similar range of colours, this shows repetitive use of a colour scheme, which means that their audience will be draw to it and automatically know who the artist of that album is.
These album covers can also be seen as Cultural codes, due to the audiences that they are trying to appeal to, have to know what the covers look like before they can go out and buy them. Especially when the Muse logo itself is not as visible is some other artists.
This image is from the music video 'Broken Wings' by Alter Bridge. From this shot, we liked the way in which the silhouette of the natural light is behind the two guitarists, and therefore representing how the lyrics work with the video.
'On broken wings I'm falling
And it won't be long
The skin on me is burning
By the fires of the sun
On skinned knees
I'm bleeding
And it won't be long
I've got to find that meaning
I'll search for so long'
From this video many people have different views as to what it is really representing, but the main meaning that i found through my research was about the lyrics of the song. Songs are like poems and give off several different meaning to a range of audiences, these song lyrics show a sense of loosing ones own identity and self worth due to the loss of a loved one -this could even be that the person has been betrayed.
These specific lyrics;
"I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears"
Made me think that she feels drained and paralyzed by the fear of being alone, from this i had alot of different ideas as to why i could use this song as my music video - i have many images of a girl being alone in a ballet studio dancing, and looking as though she is trying to find herself again - her own identity needs to be revealed. To portray this i would use black and white footage of her in the studio, and then when it flashes back to when she is with her friends/boyfriend i would use colour. I did not include family as i have a feel that they might have been an influence on the person she is now, over the person she used to be, as though they have made her change, or they didn't give her the faith, support and belief that she needed.
I found this song was too heavy to use as an original, but i feel that it is more suited to our ideas from the unplugged acoustic album. Some ideas that we came up with for this video were, having a boy and girl montage of old memories, and how they have faded away...losing her love.
After researching the heavy version we feel that we would have to use mainly performance over narrative, as the acoustic version would allow for more of a meaning and relation back to the lyrics. We have also decided that overall we want to create a music video which has a balance of narrative and performance, over just using one genre.
I am planning to analyse My Chemical Romance's Famous Last Words and Evanescence's My Immortal to see what are similar and what are different. By doing this I will see if I can recognise a pattern in that specific genre, to see if there are camera angles or ideas for a location that I could use in my own music video.
The girl in this video was laying in a bath and then she let her head go under the water - in thought of suicide due to a problem. But I thought the camera angle was very effective as it showed her laying back but also a close up of her face showing real emotion: especially through her eyes. Also later in the music video they relate back to that moment and then close to the end she gasps for air, connoting she came to her senses that life isn't worth wasting! Because I was able to get a strong message from this type of music video, I thought the narrative was particularly effect, sending many different messages but also it contradicted the song title!
The shot of the girl coming out of the water is at 3:33 - 3:35
One of our ideas for our music video is I Could Die For You by Red Hot Chili Peppers, it helps us as this song does not have a video already, so we can use all of our original ideas and not need to worry about linking it back to the original video. One of our ideas was linking the video to the lyrics and making a narrative our of the lyrics. From this we came up with the idea of using a soldier that has been away at war for a long period of time, and during the video it shows a range of different memories that he shared with his girlfriend or his family - using a flashback technique; and then he comes home to his girlfriend (who he had to leave to go to war) and she is still waiting for him.
My partner and I have many different ideas of what bands or artists we could use for our music video, but we have not settled on one specific genre yet as we are still looking at the different options that we have.
Korn
The only song that we have thought about from this band would be Word up, this is because this song is more rhythmic over 'Screamo' music, which means that our video would look more realistic with the lead singing lip syncing this song. During the video there is not a real narrative being followed it is all quite abstract, without any real meaning or path to follow. I found this creative how they used the bands faces on the dogs, over just using performance as a whole.
