A2 Media - Genre

When making our video in intend not to subvert the genre but instead to adhere very close to all aspects of the metal video genre. The aspects of this being what is typically in a metal video. In order to gain an idea of this me and my partner James studied several metal videos looking at similarites and difference in between the metal genre as a whole and then at sub-genres of metal such as thrash (vortex's sub genre of metal), death and power metal. From the videos we watched we came up with a sumisable list of what features in the genre in which we are engaged :

• Quick fast paced edits
• Range of shots, from establishing, long, close-up, medium, two and moving shots
• Focus on the vocalist during vocals
• Singular shot on the guitarist frets during the solo
• Movement of the actors across the area playing
• Headbanging (actors)

Each of these things we noticed was present in the videos we watched and so in order to slide into our chosen genre we need to make sure that we ourselves include these in our video also.