Band Music Videos Analysis*

Bring Me The Horizon

Bring Me The Horizon are a British metalcore band from Sheffield formed in 2004.  Their style of music has developed from a very deathcore style to more electronic style of metal.

Lead vocalist Oli Sykes owns his own clothing line Drop Dead, which has had a massive success and has built up the bands fan base even more. The band will often feature Drop Dead clothing in their music videos and when they perform.

Shadow Moses

•Jerky camera – goes along to the beat of the music

•Cold, snowy, icey setting

•Cold, merky, grey beach setting

•Storyline of the girl walking around the different place, going nowhere like the the lyrics say

•The band are performing in the same setting as where the girl is

•Sense of sadness in the video

•Lots of firework shots

•Feathers on the drum kit

•Image of looking out into the open sea

•Foggy and blurry

Sleepwalking

•Girl walks backwards after looking outside – fear

•Band performing in the pub – unfitting scene

•Cold, merky setting

•Girl alone in the bedroom

•Shes not really heading anywhere

•Sea going backwards

•The girl is running – jerky camera – fear

•Lead vocalist screams wake up at the girl

•Walks onto the piers – birds flying around

•The girl wakes up at the end

Fabian Röttger – A Nice Idea Every Day

Fabian Röttger was the director for the Shadow Moses and Sleepwalking video. He makes really arty, indie videos. the video was shot with a “camera – shift technique” that gives the viewer a 3D like experience without the need of special screen or glasses.

Blessed with a Curse

•Band perfoming in a plain setting surrounded by weird things - shows the

•Camera angle keeps going upside down and cutting parts out

•Girl sat alone

•The shot of the band performing and the shot of herself in black rips and its show the girl had just ripped up a photo

•Same girl is dressed all in black in the same setting as the band looking lost

•Shots of blood on the girls body

•Girl in black is puppet like

•Shots fit in with the beat of the music

•Girl looking at a photo of her looking at the photo of her looking at the photo

Similarities

•All very gloomy and warped

•Have the band performing alongside a storyline

•All link in with the lyrics

•Camera movements fit in with the beat of the songs

Differences

•the blessed with a curse video was filmed on a set in a studio whereas the other two are filmed at places.

•The sleepwalking video doesn’t have many effects and transitions whereas the other two do.

Can You Feel My Heart – Idea for own video

•A man running away from some sort of creature

•Dark warehouse setting and then out onto deserted streets

•The band are performing in the same setting

•He has a photograph of himself with a girl which he looks at

•The creatures seem to be everywhere and he cant escape

•Feels cornered and he falls

•Slow mo of him falling

•He falls onto water and sinks

•“I'm scared to get close and I hate being alone.
I long for that feeling to not feel at all.
The higher I get, the lower I'll sink.
I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim”