Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Neo Babylon, where knowledge is power!


Our forum caters to a wide variety of tastes, from gaming to RPing to arts and entertainment. If you're looking for a place to hang out and discuss your hobbies with like minded individuals, then look no further, you've come to the right place. When registering, don't forget to read the rules and be mindful of your behaviour. Now go out there and have fun!


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
World of Lines; Music Films as opposed to Videos?
Topic Started: Oct 10 2010, 03:50 AM (215 Views)
-The Raging Zephyr-
Member Avatar
The Winds of Change
[ *  *  *  * ]
The story of youths facing prejudice and being ostracized for just being different from everyone else.

The song itself? It can be taken as that. The story it actually tells? The 1% majority that rules over the other 99% of the population, doesn't matter whether it's government, a clique, or supervisors. And a percentage of that 99%? They just want to be left alone, because there's no reason for them all to suffer because somebody else won't leave them alone for petty reasoning.

The video:



The song itself (which isn't featured in whole in the video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hMoIcmAHs

This video was first shown on G4's Attack of the Show and brings an interesting contrast to how most people perceive music videos. Michael Jackson's Thriller and Smooth Criminal as well as Robert Kelly's Trapped in the Closet showed that pop music can have a music video turned into a music film, something that doesn't come up in most genres nor to a desired effect.

Whereas Thriller and something like Lady Gaga's Telephone can tell a story with the music as well as make it its own small film and be entertaining, Robert Kelly's Closet showed how this could go horribly askew and be one of the most annoying songs anyone could ever write with one of the longest and most horrible videos anyone could ever film.

Coheed and Cambria, known for making videos with no relation to the song at hand as well as spreading their story across music, novels, and comics, tried their own hand at this sort of music film and this is the result. Said video managed to turn a song into a filmed story with astounding success.

The question is, are these sorts of music videos welcome in today's entertainment industry? Are they any better than a plain old music video? And what kind of advancements in entertainment media could arise from this? An entire feature length film set to running music? An album with its own film?
Edited by Eternally Fallen, Aug 11 2011, 08:53 AM.
Posted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted ImagePosted Image
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Psycho Werekitsune
Member Avatar
Part man...part beast...full psycho!
[ *  *  *  * ]
You're forgetting Bad, which was directed by Martin Scorsese himself and starred a young, up and coming Wesley Snipes. It shows that there can still be a lot of effort, time and money put into a music video to churn out some decent results. Then there's Interstella 5555, which is an entire animated movie (supervised by Leiji Matsumoto and sporting his style) encompassing Daft Punk's then new album, Discovery. This movie was later segmented into several shorter music videos and shown on TV.

My point is, as much as generic, artsy fartsy music videos are welcomed by the populace, there's still a place for ones that have more of a narrative to them, be it in the actual lyrics of the song, the video shown, or some combination of both. In fact, I'd go as far as saying I'd want to see more of it, because it'd give me more incentive to watch TV. It's stuff like this that really made me enjoy MTV back in the day.
Posted Image
EMBRACE THE NAKED!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · The Amphitheater · Next Topic »
Add Reply


Theme Silt created by tiptopolive of IDS