A2 Media - Hammerfall

This band are not actually of the same genre as the band we are actually using, but they are still metal they are just in the genre of power metal rather than thrash metal. The band called Hammerfall made this video for the song "Any means nessecary", despite the fact of this being a different sub genre of metal i felt that this video lends an important insight as to what qualities a metal video that does contain a narrative if a very small one. The video itself contains a narrative or at least another element besides just the band playing the narrative of this story seems to be that of an explosion in reverse until at the end when it is fully reversed it is redone again. With regards to the actual song itself the use of the flames and the explosion in general relate to the title of the song “Any means necessary” suggesting they are willing to use any means necessary to get what they want. Not only this but in the video we can see multiple times where the band is being put in slow motion or they are not playing in time with the song due to the slow motion, this sort of element could be something we could incorporate into our final piece using the slow motion shots to create a sort of emphasise on a particular part of the song or a particular player in the band, but at the same time simply using it where we have not been able to sync up the music to the video. The content of the video is pretty much the same as any other metal video we have looked at, there are multiple shots of different length and angle on different members of the band and a constant slow motion is used seemingly on the drummer the most to put emphasis perhaps on the way he hits each drum and the symbols which is an interesting idea. However much more noticeable in this sub genre of metal is the focus on the singer this is one part from this video we will have to disregard. Furthermore the linking of the song with the video in a way in which when the song slowed down just before the guitar solo the music video had a sombre moment where the singer was moving toward the detonator, the timing of something like this really sets the scene of the video and the song which shows that when we begin to plan our own narrative we will really have to think about what we can do and how we can link it up with the music in a way to create such atmospheric effects that are related to both song and music. Also with the use of narrative we can defer away from the actual band and then so forget about the syncing of the music for a while examples this here is when the flames dance across the front of the screen consuming the full screen.