Bands and their &$#%^@ videos....

[StillGuerrillaFilms]

Yeah...if I see a video of the band just playing with the standard issue shots - fretboard/slow mo of the drummer on crashes/angst ridden dead center vocalist shots/yadda yadda yadda- I just don't bother watching and listen to the song instead. ANY story/concept would set most music videos apart these days - Like the one above. It could be shot with just about any halfway decent cam...as long as there is something unique about what is shown.

My point was if you are on a limited budget you want the best video you can do. The money might not be there to tell a story. But you can still do an effective music video based on the energy alone as long as the quality is good. Doesn't tend to work if the quality is bad as well. But either way, I won't dismiss artist who really try especially amid the sea of 15 minute famers.

 

[pulpfiction007]

My point was if you are on a limited budget you want the best video you can do. The money might not be there to tell a story. But you can still do an effective music video based on the energy alone as long as the quality is good. Doesn't tend to work if the quality is bad as well. But either way, I won't dismiss artist who really try especially amid the sea of 15 minute famers.

I actually thought the video you posted was interesting...of course there were some of the usual shots...but I was speaking more about angst ridden hard rock videos that are just about shot for shot identical to each other....and the music is as well. The band you posted was an entirely different thing.

I think some of these bands with very little to spend could just shoot ANYTHING other than the band in a room and they would stand out a bit....they wouldn't have to spend a lot either. Just a band - say- walking through a supermarket (not lip syncing at all) would give the viewers more of their personalities and something more interesting to watch. Of course whatever you film them doing should match the song's emotion/tempo.
Hip hop videos have their own set of clichets that could be broken quite easily....by doing ANYTHING other than what's always done.

 

[Efexone]

I suspect a similar phenomenon is taking place at schools.... where the literacy skills must have fallen to sub-zero levels.... I'm glad I'm not an English teacher...
can you imagine reading all those "k tty l8 wtf lol cya" essays...!?!?

sad but very true. its a much larger problem overall - you can call it the overspecialization of society. sorta like all the cliche sci-fi plots, we really are being replaced and/or made irrelevant by our technological advancements.