Land of Confusion - Disturbed
Animated/Spectacle music video.
Unlike most music videos this incorporates no footage of the band playing, and focuses entirely on a video to represent the songs lyrics and meanings. Although the songs meanings are displayed in an entropic manner with a stereotypical "fat cat" politician bursting into money, the intentions are redundant as the explosion of money represents their greed. The entropic elements in this are to attract the target audience and represent them and their video as satirical and clever. Although the message of the video will appeal to high demographics, the genre and animation style may deter them making this a somewhat niche video.
Comin' Home - City and Colour
Performance/Spectacle music video.
This video, despite having a spectacle element, portrays the musician as serious and devoted to his music through the soft focuses, saturated effect and numerous shots of him playing his guitar/singing. The spectacle aspect of this video is used to compliment the songs lyrics and emotional atmosphere rather than distract from the song and shots of the musician, making the video relatively redundant while maintaining a slight air of entropy for interest and depth.
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns 'n' Roses
Performance/Backstage
This video of Guns 'n' Roses shows them to be a dedicated band through the footage of them both playing their instruments on stage as well as off stage setting up or playing out of pleasure. The use of grey scale also adds a serious side to this video and further connotes a redundant theme. There is very little entropy in this video as it all connotes relatively dominant ideology, making this a somewhat mainstream song.
Song 2 - Blur
Performance/Quirky
Despite this video being focused totally around the musicians it is extremely entropic. To begin with the musicians seem to be serious as they play their instruments, but one the song gets heavily into the beat, the musicians begin bouncing off the walls and playing on the ceiling. This makes is similar to the Black Stone Cherry video, in the sense it is a performance video edited to be interesting. This will be a higher budget production compared to Black Stone Cherry though, due to a more mainstream audience and bigger record label backing. This entropic style depicts them as slightly playful and quirky musicians, while the performance aspect maintains a theme of devotion to their music.
Redneck - Lamb of God
Performance/Spectacle/Backstage
This video is extremely interesting in the respect that it combines three main music video genre styles seamlessly into one. Since the band is messing about in a rockstar fashion/setting up a stage and performing on it, this video technically a performance/backstage video. But because of the sheer entropy/juxtaposition of scenario and location, this gives the video a huge spectacle element. The entropy here is used to exaggerate their rockstar approach to life and capture the attention of the target audience. Although mainstream viewers would see this as ridiculous, the target audience will see this as total dedication to music and boost respect.
Gay Bar - Electric Six
Performance/Spectacle/Spoof/Sexy
Out of all videos so far, this is definitely the most entropic and bizarre. Although it includes a member performing the song with vocals and guitar through the entire video, the main element are the spoof sexual scenes. These scenes are highly entropic and although may seem for niche appeal, it will probably target a wider audience because of its comedic value. This does not display the band to be serious and brooding as most artists will want to, but shows them as extremely wacky and funny, while maintaining a devotion to music.
From this post I can conclude that the majority of modern music videos employ entropy rather than redundancy in order to capture the eye of the audience. This entropy aspect sets them apart from every day life, adding surrealism and thus interest.
Performance/Spectacle/Spoof/Sexy
Out of all videos so far, this is definitely the most entropic and bizarre. Although it includes a member performing the song with vocals and guitar through the entire video, the main element are the spoof sexual scenes. These scenes are highly entropic and although may seem for niche appeal, it will probably target a wider audience because of its comedic value. This does not display the band to be serious and brooding as most artists will want to, but shows them as extremely wacky and funny, while maintaining a devotion to music.
From this post I can conclude that the majority of modern music videos employ entropy rather than redundancy in order to capture the eye of the audience. This entropy aspect sets them apart from every day life, adding surrealism and thus interest.
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