My Analysis videos

I will be studying 5 videos in depth and relating them to my idea and my genre of music are:

Megadeth: - Hangar 18
Metallica:-One
-Turn the Page ( a cover of the Bob Seger and silver lining band original)
Avenged Sevenfold: -Buried Alive.

Metallica - Turn the Page



analysis
The video begins with a woman talking to the camera. This is before the music begins, which is something i plan to do, which is a concept used mostly by narrative videos, which is true of this one.
The video is highly narrative with a bit of performance by Metallica, and follows the life of a prostitute woman in america, and how despite her job and her having a child who has to see what she goes through, regrets nothing about the decisions she made in her early life.
The video follows the song quite closely, which describes the story of the average day in her and her child's life.
The song has a very American feel, which is what the original by Bob Seger was like. This helps the listener associate the song with typical American life, and the fact that what the Protagonist does is harsh reality.

The woman herself in the opening shot is depicted as well off, shown by her hair style and attire which is very posh and upper class looking. Contrast is shown however throughout the rest of the video. I think this is to do with the fact she's in an interview. It however shows what she could be. this contrast and desire is shown throughout the video despite her regretting her decisions.
Her daughter is shown in the same way as she has; old, possibly 2nd hand clothes and messy unkept hair. I think an important factor about this video is that it's set in the 1990's, which is not only easy to tell by the dress sense, but it was a hard time economically for america.

The first part of the video is set in a typical American Roadside motel. this increases the Ideology of typical 90's america, aswell as increasing the ideology of the stereotype that the protagonist is of. Its a typical night for them.
it shows the daughter waking up, and getting ready to leave on her own, while her mum is still in bed. It signifies that she is mature for her age, and that she is possibly used to it, which is a saddening fact of reality.
The hotel room is typically american, wiith the ashtray, wooden tables and sides, and style of TV.

The video then progresses as she goes to work at her club, leaving the daughter behind- a sacrifice she is willing to make.
the rest of the video is studded with shots of performance and some dark scenes of the consequences of her job.

It's overall a very sad, and possibly depressing song, with a slow tempo. the video portrays this with its long shots, and continuity editing- a must with a video as narrative based as this.

About two thirds of the way through the video, the sound pauses as she says another line of the interview she started at the beginning.