

This questionnaire is intending to find out more about the audience along with their opinions and views on music videos. I view that people with different genre taste will have different views on the type of music videos they watch.
This is a table showing all of the candidates and their responses to the questionnaire. During the questionnaire, there may be some candidates who chose not to take this seriously at it seems. This sort of response can also determine the type of audience they fall into. Also, there had been responses that they name their favourite genre, but without an explanation why, so this may had been that they can’t think of a reason why it’s their favourite genre or that they forgot to write the reason. A lot of the candidate favourite genres listed have a large quantity on rock, although they had responded to simply just rock, so what type of rock music they like is not justified. There is a mixed result of candidates who had a sense of detail awareness of the music videos, so that what they see in the music videos may be relevant to their demands of the media. Each of their type of music video preference is also mixed, with no real correlation between the 3, regardless to which genre they prefer. My view is that people who like heavy music would have a preference to performance, as a reference to high energertic performance those bands usually do, although some ended up choose abstract and narrative, so my view is wrong.
Because I am doing the hard rock genre, I specifically wanted to find out what are the candidates interests in rock are. It is known that most of these people are very energetic when listening to these music, so I would try and base my video to be just as energetic.
She is Beautiful - Andrew W.K. A fairly mainstream video, this video is a more unique style having only one person in the entire video as opposed to having multiple members, which is rare for the hard rock genre. This is more of the alternative than the classic hard rock people would know as. During the start when the music kicks in at around 0:20, high angle shots on the subject shows the isolated space around him giving the impression he is alone in the house. Also, shots getting progressively closer to the clock 12th hour as the second passes by produces the effect of getting the audience ready for what is about to happen. Alot of the transitions keep to the rhythm of the song, keeping the energy of the video along, using a mixture of close-up shots on the instruments, mid shots and wide shots, along the way. The person in the video style is messy, in which people could view this as the messy genre of hard rock.
I never knew girls existed like you But now that I do I'd really like to get to know you The girl's too young She don't need any better It's all coming back I can feel it The girl's too young She don't know any better It's all coming back I can feel it Chorus: She is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful The girl is beautiful You're giving me moves and hits from all sides And when you're hitting like that, you melt my eyes The girl's too young She don't need any better It's all coming back I can feel it The girl's too young She don't know any better It's all coming back I can feel it You know I never know you I look at your face. To tell you that I love you Don't know what to say You're everything I got you beautiful girl The only thing I live for in the whole wide world Chorus: She is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful The girl is beautiful I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose) Gonna throw it away And talk to you She looks good She looks good And it's true And it's true The girl is beautiful She is beautiful I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose) When I'm living one time And I want you She looks good She looks good And it's true And it's true The girl is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful Na na na na na na na na She is beautiful She is beautiful Na na na na na na na na The girl is beautiful She is beautiful She is beautiful Na na na na na na na na She is beautiful She is beautiful Na na na na na na na na I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose) Gonna throw it away And talk to you She looks good She looks good And it's true And it's true The girl is beautiful She is beautiful I ain't got nothing to lose (Nothing to lose) And I'll never forget When I saw you She looks good She looks good And it's true And it's true The girl is beautiful She is beautiful
The lyrics tells how the person felt when he saw a girl he immediatly falls in love with. The music video overall appears to be a man waking up then gettng ready for what appears to be a date.
This lyrics appears to tells the story of the people whos friends parted ways and they have a reunion. The first moments they had in the situation could be described as meeting up with strangers as though they never met. After some time together they now feel the emotion of being together for a long time, aka 'Perfect Strangers'.
Among their influences as a band, they label bands such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones which in turn are bands that help grew to shape the hard rock genre.The album, 'Perfect Strangers' is very simple;
1) Deep Purple title. Simple white and small font.
2) Perfect Strangers album name. The use of rule of thirds used as audience naturally look to bottom right, although a red colour considered to be dark colour in contrast to colours like blue and white.
3)Symbol of album. Holds the most attention of the cover itself in a bright blue mettalic colour with the shine that stands out against the black background.
4) A black background, keeps the user attention on the symbol as black usually signifies emptiness.
As compared to other albums with more abstract art, this really stands out against albums that are abstract, as the design is simple, which catches the attention of audience since they expect something more of the design compared to other albums.
The back cover is similar;
1)Track listing in white. Nothing fancy to emphasise the simplistic design.
2)Picture of the members with high contrast in blue. Same colour as the logo.
3)Deep Purple on the side.
4)Perfect Strangers both the band title and album name are in their respective colour in relation to the front cover.
5) Record label using rule of thirds.
Paradise city is a song by Hard rock band Guns n’ roses.
Half of the music video was filmed at Giants Stadium in New Jersey while Guns N' Roses were on tour with Aerosmith, midway through the video, they are seen boarding the Concorde jet so they could make an appearance in England, and return as quickly as possible back to the USA to continue touring with one of their major influences. The concert in England is the Monsters of Rock event at Donington Park. The reason for this is because of some deaths that took place while Guns N' Roses were performing. As a result, they thought the footage taken at the concert would be good music video footage and a proper show of respect to those who died at the concert.
In the music video, about 4 minutes into the video, Axl Rose is seen sporting a World War II Nazi officer cap and a stage pass which appears to bear the SS eagle. Axl opens the pass, shows off the SS eagle, closes it again and gives a meaningful look to the camera. Most of the video was shot in black-and-white. The video angle is generally shot at eye level, generally the audience perspective, and the beginning of the music video has long shots for emphasise on the stage performance and size of the gig. When the downbeat kicks in and everyone rocks out, shots showing the band members are maintained throughout, typically using jump-cuts with short length between each transition to emphasise the tempo of the rhythm so something alot such as a big performance and the energy of the gig is happening in one go. Most notably, the music video is over 6 minutes, longer than generally around 3 minutes.
Van Halen
Hard rock / Glam Metal
‘Jump’ is Van Halen first single from the album 1984. The concept for this music video is just based on a rock concert with no real story behind the video. This song is probably one of the most known songs from the Van Halen discography known for its pop-synth based melody line driving the song along. Interestingly enough, this song also hides the fact that despite the success of this song, Van Halen is better known for producing music in the Hard Rock/Metal genre.
The concept for this music video is just based on a rock concert with no real story behind the video. This music video focuses on the playing style of the genre of the band in which the technical side of the music is emphasised by camera shot close ups onto the band members instrument playing.
These are the lyrics for the song:
I get up, and nothing gets me down.
I like to jump, and then go round and round
And I know, just how it feels.
You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real
Oh can't you see me standing here,
I'm getting ready for a soccer scene I ain't the worst that you've seen.
Oh can't you see what I mean?
Might as well jump. Jump!
Might as well jump.
Go ahead, jump. Jump!
Go ahead, jump.
Hey you! Who said that?
Baby how you been?
You say you don't know, you won't know
until you begin.
Well can't you see me standing here,
I'm getting ready for a soccer scene
I ain't the worst that you've seen.
Oh can't you see what I mean?
Might as well jump. Jump!
Go ahead, jump.
Might as well jump. Jump!
Go ahead, jump. Jump!
Lyric wise actually has no relation to the video whatsoever; the song is based on when a person attempts suicide by jumping of a building. This makes a rather depressing theme but is taken away from the cheesy pop melody of the song, along with the music video having no references to suicide.
I chose to do the last two options and focus on doing genre on Hard Rock, with the main band for this topic of Van Halen, along with similar bands. I'm doing one of the songs off their discography.