Music Video Research - Artist's

Music Video Research - Artist's

Kings of Leon

Pyro
- Located at an American bar.
- Pyro is short for Pyromaniac which is defined as an obsession with setting things on fire.
- The lyrics link well to the music video.
- The dress cose is very redneck/country type.

Supersoaker
- Old fashioned in terms of colour, lighting, costume, makeup, location (1950's).
- Performance based like a lot of their other videos.

Back Down South
- Members of the band are brothers and cousins.
- The dress code is very red neck/ country type, jeans, leatherjackets and boots etc.

Similarities
- All three videos feature the band together playing instruments and singing.
- All feature women barely dressed.

Differences
- The concepts of the video lining to the lyrics.

Gotye
- Born on May 21st,1980 in Bruges, Belgium.
- Making Mirros is the name of his first album.
- In 2010 he set up a recording studio in his parents barn.

Somebody That I Used To Know
- Mixture of narrative and perfomance based.
- The video itself is not telling us the story but the lyrics are.

Easy Way Out
- A panning shot is used throughout the video. This shows what the man does in his everyday life.
- Animation is used.

Eyes Wide Open
- Animation is used throughout the whole video.
- Gotye's face appears in the video.
- The lyrics do not really match with the video.

Owl City
- American electronica project created in 2007.

Fireflies
- The artist is in his room filled with toys.
- He is singing the lyrics to the song and playing the piano whilst the toys start dancing.

When Can I See You Again
- Written for the film 'Wreck It Ralph'.

Alligator

The Script
- An Irish Rock band from Dublin.
- Nearly all of their music videos are performance based.
- Their videos usually contain dull colours.
- The lead singer 'Danny' is usually in the video himself.
- Some of their videos are completely in black and white.
- Many of their videos were created by Digifish.
- Some of their videos were directed by Mark Sheehan.

Adele 

Chasing Pavements
- Was released in 2008 as the second single from her first studio album '19'.
- The video features two views.
- Narrative based as it tells a story about a couple who were in love and happy but the woman has another lover.

Rolling In The Deep
- Was released in November, 2010 as the first single from her second studio album '21'.
- Directed by Sam Brown.
- Adele is in the video, like a lot of her other videos.
- Pyrotechnics are usedin the video at the climax of the song.
- The use of sudden light at the end portrays that the artist has hope.

Someone Like You
- Was released in January, 2011 as the second single from her second album '21'.
- There is a shot of a path and the length of it could represent how long it will take to get over the breakup.
- She looks as is she is dressed for a funeral which could portray the death of her relationship.

Bruno Mars
- Performed in his family band at the age of four.
- His passion for retro/old fashioned videos comes from his childhood of inpersonatingbElvis Presley.

The Lazy Song
- One of his first videos and is probably his most popular/well known videos.
- Directed by Bruno Mars himself and Cameron Duddy.
- Bruno is in the video himsef, like a lot of his other videos.

Locked Out Of Heaven
- Directed by Bruno Mars himself and Cameron Duddy.
- A lot more serious than 'The Lazy Song' video.

Treasure
- Directed by Bruno Mars himself and Cameron Duddy.
- The video is retro themed (costume and effects).
- The video itself is distorted and unclear like 'Locked Out Of Heaven'.
- They have choreography and move in sync. 'They' are known as the 'Hooligans'. He has them with him in a lot of his videos.

BMTH
- Changed their style from Deathcore to Electronic Metal.
- The lead singer 'Oli Sykes' has his own clothing line called 'Drop Dead'.

Shadow Moses
- Jerky camera movements are used and go along with the beat of the music.
- Cold, snowy, icey setting.
- Storyline of the girl walking around the different place, going nowhere like the lyrics say.
- A mixture of narrative and performance based.
- They're performing in the middle of nowhere.
- Oli Sykes  moves to the beat of the music.

Sleepwalking
- The band are in the video themselves, like a lot of their other videos.
- Camera mainly focuses on Oli Sykes.
- The band perform in a pub which is an unfitting scene.
- A mixture of narrative and perfomance based.
- Oli Sykes screams 'Wake Up' at the girl.
- The girl is sleeping, she wakes up at the end.

Blessed With A Curse
- Jerky camera movements are used, like in a lot of their other videos.
- The band members are in the video themselves and the camera mainly focuses on Oli Sykes.
- The band are performing in a plain setting surrounded by unusual things.
- Elizabethean style could represent curses and how bach then people believed in curses.
- Weirdness?.
- Same girl dressed in black is the same girl in the Elizabethean scene.
- The girl is 'stuck'.

Editors
- British alternative rock band based in Birmingham, formed in 2002.
- A lot of their videos are perfomance and narrative based.
- A lot of their videos are in black and white.
 Papillon
- Meaning 'Butterfly' in French.
- Directed by Andrew Douglas.

A Ton Of Love
- The song is a statement to describe the passion that people around the world share in their own beliefs and that we have a desire to be affected by what others  do and what they believe.

Munich
- The band appear in the video themselves, like a lot of their other videos.
- This video  sshows a man and a woman being put through their paces in several types of exercise and show how they react to it and who is the more stronger willed and who is fragile.
- Reference to WW2.