The first video i'm looking through at is
R U MINE by
Arctic Monkeys, this is the first video that represents the Indie Rock genre which is what i'm concentrating on for my media project. This first video is a clear representation of the conventional Indie rock music video as it includes main features of that genres topics. These topics range from the same as many mainstream chart toppers which is on the verge of cars, girls and men however differs completely in the style of how these are portrayed.
The first screen shot i have captured from the bands music video would be the style of typical music videos of my genre as it shows the band in black and white tint playing their instruments with the singer at the front which is how the bands are commonly portrayed of this genre.
Smoke is coming out beside the set up to sort of make the band look even more relatable to the genre in hand as it makes them look chilled with a calm atmosphere while playing their upbeat music.
This genre usually includes some sort of fashion statement away from mainstream styles which in this case would be the band in all black with leather jackets and a prop in this clip which is completely unrelated as there is a TV sitting in the bottom right of the screenshot and this is put here to continue with their idea of a cool music video which is how it comes across to the viewer.
This is the second screenshot i acquired from this music video and it shows the fashion sense shown in most indie rock videos which is usually cool and chilled out and relatable to the style of music the sing about. so here we can see the type of clothes they're wearing goes with the look they pull off. so from this we can see that tinted aviator glasses fit well with the style of their dress. in the background of this shot it presents the driver of a car/minivan with drumsticks in his hand portraying a full on music lifestyle of the Arctic Monkeys. they're using this well to try and show the fact that music is life in this genre. the fact they're serious and not smiling shows that the music style of choice is a simply more chilled and relaxed style of music as they aren't trying to get the viewer smiling like a band of One Directions features which is very upbeat and happy compared to Arctic Monkeys relaxed serious video style as they're trying to look cool and very attractive to the viewer.
This final shot from the R U MINE music video shows a man in the back of the van with a couple of attractive girls which relates well to other styles of music where they have plenty of good looking girls however this genre portrays girls much differently. The band here have designed a style for these girls including black masks covering their faces and cowboy hats. they could have decided to use this as it shows that girls are devious and not as open as people think and that they're actually not nice people and are very secretive. this description of the girls relates to the song name and as its a question like are you mine? it could portray how women are very two faced and that they try to keep everything very clear from people. The fact they're a van twist the car theme in most music videos as a van is very different and is being made look cooler than a ferrari or porsche in some ways as the band are trying to attempt to create the illusion of a popular car when it arguably isn't and in the style of hipster choices. This music video overall creates the impression of this genre being very surrounded by the idea of being cool and in some ways attractive due to the women included.
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