Alice Collins Media studies A2 Blog - 1229

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

A2 media music videos - Of the night


Of the night (a Bastille cover) it is a mash up of two 90's dance tracks; The rhythm of the night and Rhythm is a dancer.

This students video concept is that his girlfriend has passed away and he's missing her a lot so he visits the places they went together. It starts of with the boy visiting the girlfriends grave and then he drives away and then his 'life'  begins without his girlfriend and he goes back to visit the places they went to and has flashbacks of when she was still here and then it will cut to her not being there but him still in the frame as if she is.  The entire video has a layered on off grey effect to emphasize the loneliness he is feeling. As a video, I think the concept is pretty basic although they do get credit for shying well away from the original video . Some lyrics do match the visuals of the student for example "There'll be nothing left for me to yearn" matches the visuals because the girlfriend has died and he no longer has anyone to yearn for. The original song is about a breakup and not a death so you could say that the video is over exaggerated. The video includes lyrical elements; some lyrics mainly from the chorus flash up on screen with the video still playing in the background and not on a plain backdrop which is typically seen in videos.

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