Readers,
Today I am going to give my opinions on three contemporary directors of music videos. The three that I am going to look at are Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry and Samuel Bayer. I will be looking at one video from each of them and giving my personal opinion.
Chris Cunningham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF7VwQNv9Kk&list=PL9EB279FC2939E94B
I did not like this music video because I found that it did not move on to anything else except flashing images with the same beat playing in the background. After the first 20 seconds I became bored and didn't want to watch anymore. I feel this would narrow down the audience and therefore have less views and not become a success for the artist.
Michel Gondry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkQjvjToefQ&list=PL5F67175A34FF9DD9&index=1
Again I didn't like this video. I found that the random story line has nothing to do with the song and the costumes used were unnerving to myself as the audience. Unlike the Cunningham I wanted to watch the full video to see what happened next to the artist singing and what other weird things could be in the video. Again I feel that this video would cut out a significant proportion of viewers as the video is so random and has no connection with the song.
Samuel Bayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bbTtPL1jRs&list=PL05B1CAC5271F26BC
I did like this video. I liked the used of darkness and busts of flames around the band. My Chemical Romance is known to be dark and Gothic so this video really captures the bands image to the public. All the camera movements, jumps and fire explosions were all on the beat of the song which gives a sense of synchronisation which in turn looks professional. My only criticism is that the song doesn't go anywhere and is just focuses on the band with no back story or change of scenery.
Phoebe
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