By:

Shahrukh Hussain

A style or category of art, music, or

literature is known as genre.

Alternative Blues Classical Country Electronic Folk Hip-Hop Jazz Latin Metal Opera RnB Rap Rock Pop

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later. Rock music mostly involves electric guitars, electric bass and drums, like other genres as well. But, modern rock involves distorted guitars, effected bass, drums with steel snare and a wide range of equipments is used in the modern rock.

Rock is further on divided into types.

Some of the types of rock are given below

:

Alternative Rock

Soft Rock

Hard Rock

Progressive Rock

Punk Rock

I have analyzed five different music videos

which belongs to five different bands. I

have mentioned all of the features of the

videos which are immaculate for being

used in a music video. I have analyzed the

videos of the following five bands: Dream

Theater, Nickelback, Entity Paradigm,

Avenged Sevenfold and Pantera.

I am inspired by the video of “The Looking Glass” – “Dream Theater”

as it uses dark lighting, variety of camera shots and angles, which I

may use in my self-produced music track’s video for the portfolio, but

not confirmed. Some of the screenshots of Dream Theater song’s

video are shown, in next slides.

The Looking Glass – Dream

Theater (Example # 1)

Guitar Close-Up is used here because a guitar riff has been played at this

particular shot.

Birds Eye Shot is used here to show Mike Mangini’s giant drum kit.

Over the shoulder shot is used here to show that both of the guitarists are

playing at the same time.

The band have used their own jam room for the shoot

of this video and I will also use this idea in my video.

Very light make up has been applied on Dream Theater in this video. They have kept it totally natural and I think that I should also keep it this way.

All of the band members have long hair in the video, as mostly rock musicians or metal musicians have long hair because it gives a heavy and a dark impact on the audience. I guess this thing automatically shows the representation of the genre.

Website URL: www.dreamtheater.net

Dream Theater’s website theme is dark blue which is very much representing their genre. The home page is represented by the Dream Theater’s logo. It also contains the following features: Home News Music Videos Galleries Band Forums Links Tour Store

Well, the set used in this video is quite simple, but

the camera shots, angles and lighting used in this

video are very reasonable and attractive for the

audience. Lights used in this video are white, which

creates an epic, dull and aggressive appearance.

The thing I like the most about the video is

directions. I am planning to use such directions in

my music video.

The location used in this video is a house, and the

video has shot in a jam room as shown in the next

slide.

The Location

A high angle shot has been used in the video to show the drum kit and the

other equipment in the room. It also focuses the drummer and the guitarist

of the band.

A low angle shot is used to focus on Chad Karoeger while playing the

guitar riff.

Another high angle shot it used to show the entire jam room below the

stairs. I saw this shot for the very first time in a rock video and if I will get

a chance to take a high angle shot in my music video, I will use such type

of a shot.

Hairstyles

Members of Nickelback also have short hair like Entity Paradigm (Shown

in the next example). Maybe, the trend of long hair is changing day by day

in rock bands or the modern rock bands.

The Make-Up

The Make-up used in this video is of such a type which looks good in white

lighting as it has kept so natural, like the previous example of The Looking

Glass – Dream Theater.

Website URL: www.nickelback.com

Nickelback’s website theme is black, grey and white which

represents a dark/aggressive feeling. If you compare it with

the other examples, their website has comparatively less

features, that are:

Merch Store

Fan Club

Mailing List SignUp

News on the home page

Entity Paradigm is a Pakistani General Rock band. The

video of Ajab Tamasha is one of my favorite video ever

made. The yellow and warm lighting and the

pyrotechnics made this video look so good. They gave

it a lively and a rocking feeling. It has a perfect video

opening as shown in next slide and I may use such

type of opening for my music video.

The Opening

The pyrotechnics used in the video enhanced the level of

the video. It gave a lively feeling. This concept is used very

rarely in the videos as pyrotechnics are costly and they does

not fix/suits in every Rock music video.

Water splashes were stroked on the drums to create a different and

an attractive appearance. I have never seen such type of concept in

any video so far.

The Make-Up

Blush on and eye make-up are used in the video to create a dull feeling

because most of the rock/metal bands uses such type of make up to express

a dark feeling. If you compare it with the other examples, no one has applied

such type of make-up, so this example is comparatively unique from the other

videos.

Hairstyles and The

Location

All of the band members have short hair unlike most of the rock bands.

The location used in the video is a big hall.

Entity Paradigm does not have a website but a

Wikipedia's article.

URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_Paradigm

The video of Nightmare by the famous band Avenged

Sevenfold is quite different from the other examples.

The video contains the performance as well as the

narrative acts. The narrative depicts lead vocalist M.

Shadows about to undergo surgery, when the

surgeons take him out of the room on a gurney. So this

idea is comparatively different from the other videos

and makes it unique.

A screenshot from the video is shown below of the narrative. The

location used in this part of the video is a hospital. Whereas, the

performance part of the video has shot in a studio’s small room, as

shown in the next slide.

The Location

The Make-Up

The make-up used by the band members is very different, one of the

example of a band member is shown below. He have used a make-up

base on his face and the blood on his forehead to show an evil

appearance.

A guitar close up has taken while the guitarist is playing the solo, just to

make the video more conceptual and natural.

Hairstyles

Wild hairstyles like spikes are used by the band, unlike the other

bands, one of the band member’s hairstyle is shown below.

The lighting used in this scene is a normal light of a room along with some

supporting lighting.

Website URL: www.avengedsevenfold.com

Avenged Sevenfold’s website theme is also blue and black

like Dream Theater, this shows that most of the rock bands

uses dark color schemes. It is more of a forum based

website, unlike the other examples.

So it is an another example of a music video which

contains narrative as well as the performance shots in

the video. A graveyard is shown in the narrative and

the whole concept of the song is shown in the

narrative. The locations used in the video are a

graveyard and a live concert. The screenshots are

shown in the next two slides of the narrative and the

concert shot after it.

A shot from the narrative part of the video.

A shot from the narrative part of the video.

A shot from the performance part of the video.

The band members have long hair, as long hair also represents the

rock/metal music.

So this is going to be my first example in which no make-ups are used by

the band members as they have merged a live concert video in their music

video.

The Make-Up

A transition between the narrative and performance part of the video is

shown below. None of the other examples contains such type of transition

used in this music video.

Website URL: www.pantera.com

Pantera’s website color scheme is orange, grey and white. Their website is very much like Dream Theater if we talk about the features, as listed below: Home News Band Bio Discography Videos Gallery Fans Tours Social Media Store Contact

If we talk about sound, Dream Theater uses a variety of musical instruments, including Guitars, 6-Strings Bass Guitar, Pearl Drum Kit, Keyboards, Steel Guitar, Fingerboard etc. Every music has a different feel. Soft songs gives you an emotional feel and hard songs gives you a crazy feel. If we talk about Dream Theater’s wither, it gives you a deep, emotional feel. If you talk about Dream Theater’s Enigma Machine, it gives you a hard, aggressive and a crazy feeling but if you talk about my own song, which I have produced for the portfolio, it gives you both types of the feeling, emotional in chorus and aggressive in verses and riff.

Logo is a graphic mark or design which represents a

firm, band, etc.

A font is a specific typeface of a certain size and style.

Logo and fonts of a band depends on the genre of

course, as all of the logos and the fonts cannot be

used in every type of music. Rock bands uses a Gothic

or simple type of font and logo, pop bands use fancy

type of font and logo. It all depends on the music a

band produces. I will use Gothic fonts and simple logos

for my project.

The distinct shape of alphabets (especially that of “O”) in the

Maiden logo superbly depicts the heavy metal imagery the band

is closely associated with. The Iron Maiden logo has probably

sold bigger amounts of T-shirt and merchandise sales than most

of the other metal bands. The font used is Metal Lord and indeed

gives the Iron Maiden logo a slick metallic touch and finish. The

grey and red colors in the font signify passion, strength and

refinement.

The distinctive features of the maiden logo indeed classify it

among the best rock band logos of all time.

Creed have used a font named as Mason,

which represents the band perfectly.

Creed literally means Faith and with

respect to the meaning of the band’s

name, they have used a modern simple

type of font.