This video directed by Sam Brown, sends off a strong political message. It shows the Foo Fighters performing the song in an ice hockey rink, evenly lit by strong strip lights on the ceiling. The ice rink is the only location in the whole video, and it is very interestingly laid out. It is a very simple set, featuring the band on one end of it, with a very large solid glossy red screen above and behind them throughout the video. Also, opposite the band on the other side of the set is stood what appears to be a riot police officer standing behind a black line on the floor. Due to the set’s simplicity and general emptiness, we are made to wonder what the massive red screen is doing there, and if it has a purpose. As the video progresses, other similar officers who again stand in line along the black line on the floor facing the band, looking intimidating, join the single police officer. The video seems to build up to a bridge just before their last chorus, where there is a very quiet and light music part, and the officers then start running and charge at the band in slow motion, and just as they get closer, the massive screen behind the band suddenly erupts a red water-like liquid jets shoot past and through the band and appears to overwhelm and throw the officers off guard. This of course coincides exactly as the band plays their last chorus, this time louder and angrier than before. It is clear that the guards were defeated as the song ends, and the front man slams his guitar on the floor and falls to his knees to what I assume is to represent the exhaustion after the battle. The video is composed of mainly pans, zooms and tracking shots, and close ups of the front man since he is the best-known member of the band (having belonged to Nirvana). The fact that the director isolated them in an empty ice rink makes the political lyrics stand out, as the singer shouts “What if I say I will never surrender”
Rhinana Jay Z and Kanye West - Run this town
The video was directed by Anthony Mandler. It involves people in masks, holding torches whilst walking. Rihanna takes a bandana from covering her mouth and starts to sing in a park while explosions are going off around her. Then Jay-Z sings his verse whilst in a temple-like area. At one point the trio are on a stage-like platform with the mob surrounding them. Kanye West sings in a cave-like area holding a torch and having a bandana cover his face like Jay-Z and Rihanna.
Arctic monkeys - The view from the afternoon
The video is based around a young male in a parka jacket playing the drum part of the song in the middle of a courtyard between blocks of high rise flats. Then, there is a sequence of surreal elements; an Indian schoolgirl walks past wearing plastic devil horns; a running fox; three men trying to attract the attention of the drummer who ignores them; the drummer is fed orange juice by the schoolgirl and then a brief shot in colour of him washing himself in shallow water. The music stops and it is revealed that his drumming has led his hands to bleed. Then, a shot of man in the dark wielding a baseball bat; a brief shot of the moon which then appears to explode; an older man struggling to lift a dumbbell. Finally the man with the bat comes near to the drummer and is about to strike him but the audio stops and we see a last shot of the male being showered in what could be rain or the fragments of the moon. The video is based on the story of Buddha. He was said to have meditated under a tree for days. While he meditated, devils came to seduce and sabotage him but he resisted. Seeing Buddha starve himself in order to attain nirvana, a lady gave him milk to quench the thirst. The video is shot in black and white and was filmed near Park Hill flats in the Arctic Monkeys' home city Sheffield, directed by W.I.Z.
Looking at The Beatles DVD cover it gives off exactly the right impression and the images you would associate with the band. The colourfulness is largely associated with the band, customers and fans could instantly recognise this. The logo of The Beatles is advertised on the front and advertises this huge band. The back of this cover is almost the opposite to the front it is very dark and shows all the songs that feature in this DVD. It includes an interesting image of the band drinking coffee, a very mundane activity for such a controversial band. Within the spine it includes the DVD sign and again The Beatles Logo and the dvd’s name also four images of each band member. The Repetition of the band logo and the colourfulness to represent the band is highly effective in this and I hope that we will be able to use such affects with in our own DVD cover.
This DVD front cover is simple and the main element is the image of the artist. As we see a striking pose for this artist in a live performance we see the emotion he puts in to each performance. Other than that the cover is extremely simple and uses three colours, purple, red and white, it features his name and the name of the album. The back of the DVD again includes a image of Richard Marx performing showing how much of a ‘true’ perfomer he is. It also includes his name again following the same colour conventions, and shows the 10 songs the DVD features. The other two images shown are other DVDs that the artist offers, which would be a good idea to include in our own DVD cover.
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