Narrative video

Green Day - Wake me up when September ends

Following on from my post explaining what gives Bayer an original identity as an artist, I have found that Green Day's - wake me up when September ends has a narrative based video which has been used to create a story. This is useful to me as most rock bands focus solely on live performance and involve a lot of screen time being given to the main band as they create chaos, this has made it quite difficult to relate the genre of my song to a narrative based video for examples and influence for our music video.

 

Within this music video we gather an understanding of the characters at the very beginning of the video, whereby a short clip is used to explain the idea of the story and create a connection between the two people. However, because our music video has to be a maximum of 3 minutes long, The idea which Bayer uses in some of his videos whereby a short, statistical fact opens the video may work perfectly for our music video, in order to set the scene and build up a sense of emotion straight away.

 

The main focus within this music video is the young boy and his decision to go to war. This is a touchy subject as it could be relevant to many people who may have a son, brother, dad or boyfriend who has died or is currently fighting in a war, this is like our idea on bullying, where a taboo topic is used to spark emotion from the audience. Although there is a main focus on the actor, the band themselves do occur within the music video and are seen performing, this convention of rock music may be something we need to add within our music video, even if only for a very short length of time, as even within this narrative based music video, an element of performance and the band is revealed.