Blog 6 - Video Analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHKOC64KnE
This is the video for Queens of the stone age - Go with the flow. This is clearly a video aimed at a male audience in every aspect. A pick up truck, a very male orientated type of vehicle carries 4 men playing instruments at high speed. Speed, rock music, men backgrounded by a red sky will definately appeal to men in every way possible. Soon afterwards, a woman is presented to the camera wearing skimpy garments to appeal even further to the male mind. She is spread across the hood of a pick up truck on a long, straight american road. The main storyline of the video focusses on the band, while the sub plot focusses on the woman. After a while the 2 sub plots meet, and a car crash unites the lead singer with the woman simultaneously. This creates exitement for the audience and after all this concludes there is a massive animated explosion to signify sexual desire and crashing at high speed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE
This is the video for 'No one knows'. This also features the band in a moving vehicle, however it also uses a standard, standing up setting for the band playing while the sub plot focusses on them being transported in the truck. The song plays along while not a lot happens to the truck or the people inside it, until it hits a deer. This is a common situation in american media, and queens of the stone age put their twist on it by making the deer come alive again, and attack the band. As all this is happening and the scene is livening up the music is speeding up and graduates into the chorus. I have no idea how the video content relates to the message put across in the song. This is the same case as the first video. Perhaps the video content just needs to look cool and appeal to men in order to be functional for my chosen band. Maybe the interpretation of the song and lyrics should be left to the listener as opposed to being fed on a plate to them by the video I make.