1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics
This is alternative rock music which is only just a sub genre of rock, going by the characteristics this music video contains many for what a rock music video should include. The band members are viewed in the music video and they mostly have long hair and scruffy clothing to go with what a conventional rock star looks like. unpredictable things take places in these peoples lives as coming across energetic scenes that collides with the music is very effective to emphasize the actions that take place. going with the codes and conventions of a rock song the band also have a performance based act for most part of it as all members have their individual instruments and they are playing the song as if it were a live performance and this is really good for what appeals to the audience.
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals
At the start where you see Dave Grohl in his car it is representing his life and showing how he is stuck and in life he isn't really getting anywhere. He realizes that just sitting isn't going to get him anywhere and the only way is if he gets up and does something about it and the lyrics saying 'learning to walk again' is representing how when he tries he is moving on instead of being stuck still.
He also says in the lyrics, 'i think i found my way' represents how that if in life he tries to do something about his situation he can actually get up and find the right path which will lead him to a better situation then he already is. He also refers to saying 'I believe I have waited long enough' and this is important to say that he's waited and realized that he isn't going to get anywhere and once in the new situation that he worked for, he is basically saying hes waited long enough and after trying he has got to the place he wants to be. he also looks at his watch saying 'i believe i have waited long enough'.
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals
At 2:15 there is a moment in the local store where Dave Grohl hits the store owner with a salami at the same time to the drum being hit and this is so the pace of the music video matches up with of the music that is playing to make the video work with the song rather than both going at a separate paces and not combining with each other at any point.
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
In this music video you see many close ups of Dave Grohl from the Foo fighters showing his facial expressions as they vary because fans know how crazy he can acts and it goes towards his expectations as his audience expect this level of humor and its good that they are included as fans enjoy seeing the artist. also the way he
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking
When Dave enters the burger restaurant he looks at the woman over and she smiles at him and this is trying to show how the woman can be perceived as a sexual object as he looks at her like any other woman giving a smile and he thinks hes better than her because of the way he goes about it. he doesn't really value her but only smirks at her like shes any other woman.
6. There is often intertextual reference
Dave Grohl swaps his usual scruffy hair for a tight nit due and sports intellectual spectacles to create a near enough duplication to Michael Douglass’s character in the 1993 film “Falling Down”. Walk supports humorous versions of the events matching the Joel Schumacher film. For example Dave Grohl channels the films frustrated “white male” sat in a traffic jam as an annoying kid stares at him from the back seat of the car in front, encountering signs such as “BIEBER is my copilot” and “ Thank you President Bush” Grohl just like Douglass’s character snaps and storms off.
7. Whether the video is primarily performance based, narrative based or concept based and how elements of each is used in it.
This music video is mainly narrative and performance based as the lyrics tell a story and the band performing their instruments is obviously the performance part of it
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