A2 Media - Research

Me and James have begun to look at music videos from the chosen genre now, from the initial videos we have watched we noticed several common elements:

• very fast paced edits, these being used along with the music to create a very quick mood and very fast paced video which works well with the music which itself is very fast paced
• there are a plethora of close-ups used in multiple different angles whereby sometimes it would be close up on the singer, then other times it would be a close up on the guitar player, in particular his guitar
• there is also focus on the musicians and attempts to bring them together in shots or sometimes use of a long shot would include the whole band
• we have also noticed that generally there does not seem to be a story element, the videos tend to instead put massive focus onto the actual band itself rather than a particular story element to it
• there are however cases where this story element is present for example in the "Hanger 18" by Megadeth there were alien, but the focus always came back toward the band

This is just what we have noticed from a few videos however we will post three or four videos each and analyse these in detail looking at the deeper elements of the videos.