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Right! What an image to start off a bit of annotating :D. Straight away you should be able to recognise the style of this video for what it is, really crazy, fast paced, and blinking creepy.
We're greeted with a lot of erratic movements setting the pace of the video showing all sorts of objects that, with the distortions (blurs, high exposures), are seemingly unidentifiable. But whether you know what's going on or not, you will feel that heavy sense of intensity being created. I'm not sure about anyone else, but the colour tones remind me of a sickly pile of puke in a freshly washed bucket smeared with leaked entrails from my bowels. The extreme nature of this video would attract anyone who's really into their hardcore metal and all things Gothic.
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Creepier and creepier. That seems to be a running theme in these videos. However there is quite a change in pace with this particular music video as the tempo has almost been completely reversed from incredibly fast, to rather slow. There's almost a calming tone to the song, until you open your eyes and see the wide-eyed corpse in the coffin.
The smooth melodic tone of the song is similar to one of my song choices, Dead Flag Blues, both of which have a negative vibe to their meanings although not quite to the same degree. Because of this I think experimenting with the style of this video into my own ideas will lead to some fitting imagery.
After analysing the few lyrics in this song I came to the conclusion that it is about a deceivingly beautiful woman who has a wicked side to her and tricks men, causing them to become nothing. I'm trying to think how that translates into the process of burying a dead body with an old-film style though. The fact there are very few lyrics though could mean that this video has nothing to do with the lyrics but more to do with the instrumental elements of the song. It seems though that what it's trying to show is that they really want to make sure this guy is dead when you see the two men at the ending sequence where they pound a big metal spike into the body.
The smooth melodic tone of the song is similar to one of my song choices, Dead Flag Blues, both of which have a negative vibe to their meanings although not quite to the same degree. Because of this I think experimenting with the style of this video into my own ideas will lead to some fitting imagery.
After analysing the few lyrics in this song I came to the conclusion that it is about a deceivingly beautiful woman who has a wicked side to her and tricks men, causing them to become nothing. I'm trying to think how that translates into the process of burying a dead body with an old-film style though. The fact there are very few lyrics though could mean that this video has nothing to do with the lyrics but more to do with the instrumental elements of the song. It seems though that what it's trying to show is that they really want to make sure this guy is dead when you see the two men at the ending sequence where they pound a big metal spike into the body.
The best thing to take from this video is definitely the style of film, even if we are only making still images. But I can still apply this style to my own ideas especially with one of my ideas that involve a closeup of an old man's mouth narrating the song. I'd rather have everything else in colour though or more likely slightly desaturated with particular pieces in full colour. We'll see during the trial and error stages.
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Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
"I'm staring into your soul, stealing your essence!". Ignoring that caption, this video for the song "Sledgehammer" brings us into a world of insanity, fun, and an immense amount of effort. I say effort because aft er being introduced to Peters face, you'll notice the rest of the video is done using the stop-motion technique. This is when a collection of photos are taken one after another and then placed into an ordered sequence in order to create the illusion of movement. It's also a really useful technique for defying the laws of physics and all things thought to be impossible, little things.
Simply because this is done using stop-motion makes me appreciate this video straight away without even needing to know the content. It is complete genius! I've done my fair share of stop-motion and I can definitely tell you that even if everything goes perfectly, it is still an incredibly time consuming process and when something goes wrong... I don't even want to think about all those hours I wasted because of a slight TILT!!! to the camera ><. Anyways! Enough of the technique, on to the content.
"I'm staring into your soul, stealing your essence!". Ignoring that caption, this video for the song "Sledgehammer" brings us into a world of insanity, fun, and an immense amount of effort. I say effort because aft er being introduced to Peters face, you'll notice the rest of the video is done using the stop-motion technique. This is when a collection of photos are taken one after another and then placed into an ordered sequence in order to create the illusion of movement. It's also a really useful technique for defying the laws of physics and all things thought to be impossible, little things.Simply because this is done using stop-motion makes me appreciate this video straight away without even needing to know the content. It is complete genius! I've done my fair share of stop-motion and I can definitely tell you that even if everything goes perfectly, it is still an incredibly time consuming process and when something goes wrong... I don't even want to think about all those hours I wasted because of a slight TILT!!! to the camera ><. Anyways! Enough of the technique, on to the content.
"Complete Genius"
Sex. Line after line after dirty dirty line of sex. Have a little read of the lyrics in this song with this in mind and you will easily notice the vast amount of sexual innuendos.
Obviously this is not a literal offering of an actual steam train in which the conditions are that you must lay down the train tracks beforehand, so it must be a metaphor for something, but what? Perhaps the steam train is the penis, and the tracks being laid down is actually the woman spreading her legs?
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
Read that and tell me you weren't thinking of sex. The whole song seems to be about simply having some fun. There's also a bit that makes me think it's also about getting rid of the bad stuff in your life and just move on which goes exactly like this:
I've kicked the habit
Shed my skin
This is the new stuff
I'd also like to mention that this song is a definite head-nodder. The funky beat matches this strange and ever-changing world we're brought into. I don't think the video is meant to represent anything specific as there is just so much insanity going on here that you can't help but feel happy when watching those two dancing uncooked turkeys, or feel disturbed. Either way, it's definitely a video for those who just want to enjoy themselves.
You could have a steam train
If you'd just lay down your tracks
If you'd just lay down your tracks
Obviously this is not a literal offering of an actual steam train in which the conditions are that you must lay down the train tracks beforehand, so it must be a metaphor for something, but what? Perhaps the steam train is the penis, and the tracks being laid down is actually the woman spreading her legs?
"It feels like he's undressing me with his eyes"
You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends
Read that and tell me you weren't thinking of sex. The whole song seems to be about simply having some fun. There's also a bit that makes me think it's also about getting rid of the bad stuff in your life and just move on which goes exactly like this:
I've kicked the habit
Shed my skin
This is the new stuff
I'd also like to mention that this song is a definite head-nodder. The funky beat matches this strange and ever-changing world we're brought into. I don't think the video is meant to represent anything specific as there is just so much insanity going on here that you can't help but feel happy when watching those two dancing uncooked turkeys, or feel disturbed. Either way, it's definitely a video for those who just want to enjoy themselves.
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