Friday, 8 October 2010

blog 6: Video Analysis

Paramore video's link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7J_IWUhls




Genre: Paramore is an Alternative rock Band.
Representation: The song 'The only exception' mainly representing a life of a teenager whose family are separated and can't seem to find a real love. But there is a person that she only makes an exception for is her boyfriend.

Narrative: The song a telling a story of a life of a young teenager girl who disappointing in a love from her family which leaves her with a negative feelings about 'Love'. She would trust or love anyone. From this video would be her boyfriend because she feels that she might be disappoint again. Almost entire video showing how she run away from her boyfriend and get herself involve with many people and places. The more she is with people the more she sees that she always thinking about the past that she has with her boyfriend and now that she's with other people she can see that no one can be like her boyfriend. At the end of the video she realize that only him that she will give and exception to trust, to love, and to be with him.

Audience: Mainly are a group of young people around the age of 15-25.

The video communicated well with young people because the story line from this song connected with a life of most young people nowadays that are in the same kind of situation where either separating family that make them feel unsecure to trust other people or a love that they find to be perfect that they can accept them without cause.


VersaEmerge’s link for American boy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO2FwnG55l8



Genre: An Alternative rock, experimental rock and Post-hardcore.
Representation: 'American boy' representing a desire of a teenager that expressing her feeling that she has for a perticular guy that she met. If to compare this representation to Paramore it is quite the same, where they focus on teenager's life, feelings, and emotion that they have toward the person they love or their love dream that they wish to have.
Narrative: 'American boy' doesn't have a story video that goes with the lyric. It is only show a singer(Sierra Kusterbeck) and the guitar player(Blake Harnage) recording the song in a studio so there is not much of a narrative create. On the other hand, it show a couple of teenager singing and playing the which show the expression that the singer felt when she sang a song about someone that she interested in of the singer and the guitar player while they recored. How much she wanted to be with him and go to a places that she never been before in America because he's an American boy.

Audience:
Thia band is most likely similar to Paramore and also a great audience that enjoying their work. Their audeince are around the age that are shown below.
Gender Age
Female 13-17
Female 18-24
Male 18-24

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