The song is about a man who is in love with a woman but not being with her, he starts to feel claustrophobic in a large city as if it were a cage, stopping him finding her. All of his chances of seeing her are destroyed by their friends and people making fun of them.
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Heart in a Cage - The Strokes, video review/key features
Whilsit researching the alternative genre The Strokes is one of the bands famous for being in this genre.
The song is about a man who is in love with a woman but not being with her, he starts to feel claustrophobic in a large city as if it were a cage, stopping him finding her. All of his chances of seeing her are destroyed by their friends and people making fun of them.
The video grabbed me because of some of the ideas I have had for my video are similar with this one. I had the idea of doing the verse's of my song shot in monochrome, and when hes with his girlfriend switch to a more bright atmosphere. This video is filtered using monochrome and remains that way throughout giving the video a dirty grimy vibe, which is what I want to incorporate into my video. Also the protagonist in this video is alone within a constantly moving crowd with a zoom that allows him to be seen but only the legs and feet of passers by, in my video I focus on the act of walking as my protagonist will be constantly walking. Its also clever as the othe members of the ban in this video are situated with famous american landmarks but are in open spaces, above the streets symbolysing that they are free. In my video I wanted the band to be seperate from the protagonist but playing to an audience that dont exist. Also the use of slow down and increase of speed in this video has influenced me to think about using this in my video.
The song is about a man who is in love with a woman but not being with her, he starts to feel claustrophobic in a large city as if it were a cage, stopping him finding her. All of his chances of seeing her are destroyed by their friends and people making fun of them.
The Alternative Rock Genre
The Fool by This Is Smith is an alternative rock song. Because of this I am going to talk about this genre and research other alternative songs and there videos.
The term "Alternative" was introduced in the 1990's to describe the movement of underground independant music rising in popularity. The music itself has a high variety because of the different social contexts different people come from. But independent music is called so because most artists/bands were signed by independent lables, however some bands because more mainstream such as R.E.M.
The most popular Alternative bands of the 21st century have been The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and 90's bands such as The Killers and The White Stripes.
Mood Board of the Alternative Rock Genre.
The term "Alternative" was introduced in the 1990's to describe the movement of underground independant music rising in popularity. The music itself has a high variety because of the different social contexts different people come from. But independent music is called so because most artists/bands were signed by independent lables, however some bands because more mainstream such as R.E.M.
The most popular Alternative bands of the 21st century have been The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand and 90's bands such as The Killers and The White Stripes.
Mood Board of the Alternative Rock Genre.
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