'Perfect Strangers' - Music video analysis

This is Deep Purple's song 'Perfect Strangers'

The music video interestingly enough is not a performance based song or few scenes with performance elements in, as opposed to other Hard rock music videos. Since the song is a steady beat with no fast tempo involved, the transitions and editing goes with the song with no flashy shots. There are however, effects utilized during a part where band members with close up shots on their faces have a graphical effect. This is used to emphasise their facial expressions on how they are enjoying what they are doing during their band rehearsal/recording an album.

These are the lyrics to the song:

Can you remember remember my name
As I flow through your life
A thousand oceans I have flown
And cold spirits of ice
All my life
I am the echo of your past

I am returning the echo of a point in time
Distant faces shine
A thousan warriors I have known
And laughing as the spirits appear
All your life
Shadows of another day

And if you hear me talking on the wind
You've got to understand
We must remain
Perfect Strangers

I know I must remain inside this silent
well of sorrow

A strand of silver hanging through the sky
Touching more than you see
The voice of ages in your mind
Is aching with the dead of the night
Precious life (your tears are lost in falling rain)

And if you hear me talking on the wind
You've got to understand
We must remain
Perfect Strangers

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.