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Thursday 30 June 2016

How does "Judith" from perfect circle use media language to portray its genre?




The Judith music video is in the form of a performance, its dark and gritty approach is a convention used by the majority of videos performed by Rock bands. Each character is either blurred out or in shallow focus adding to the portrayal of a rock band. Rock music is normally portrayed by the colour black and in Judith the entirety of the music video. Each player is portrayed by numerous shots most of them not showing their entirety, showing off the parts in which would link them to the rock genre, being the clothes, the way they walk and what area they are in.

The dark gritty and gloomy setting in which the music video is set in also reflects its genre as Rock is normally linked to dark and disturbing motives. The camera being purposely filtered to make the entire video seem more darker amplify the deep tone of the music   as it is almost entirely dark int he video it connotes a very dark subject and the lyrics amplify this factor.
The camera work in the video is mostly darkened out and dull in which shows that it is of the rock genre, most likely more suiting to the punk rock genre due to its overall dull and gritty camera work.

Sometimes the shots move to cover the band members and even though they are pictured they are not the focal point, the focal point is the main singer and due to that adds emphasis on the fact that the one singing should be the sole leader of the band an convention of punk rock and rock as a whole; as presented within other videos such as green days american idiot the singer is the one who controls the video.

The clothing they are wear is evidently of a slight goth undertone, but ultimately the leather mostly links towards the genre of rock, leather in itself is meant to be expressive and bold and therefore the usage of it within the video means that it portrays the genre well. its not overly in your face but its pictured to be normal in which is what fans of punk rock view leather to be.

The location as well is evident of a more gloomy and dark undertone (The punk rock) as the area is dark and poorly lighted and therefore it shows that the song is more catored to the rock fans other than say the pop fans who like and its common for pop videos to have colour and lively attitudes, Judith has a more darker gritter tone to its location and how its location interacts with the characters.


The mic and the way they are singing is used mostly in rock and goth punk music, with them grabbing the mic and singing into it; the use of the mic at head level is not used really in genres like pop or indie rock too much however it is common in rock music.

Applying Andrew Goodwin’s theory of music videos”

Andrew Goodwin's theory of music videos is portrayed within the music Video of "Sucker for Pain"

The music video starts off giving us a brief insight into the locations, a prison showcasing the band members is shackles or in confinement, the first words of the song are "I Torture You" which is extremely relate able to the scenes earlier. The band members are seen to be insane or evil in the way they move and act. In most instances in the video when "Im just a sucker for pain" is sung everyone seems to either jolt or physically hit something. The same kind of thing happens when "Go slow through the fire" is sung as the rapper is seen to be in a room full of fire. There is a constantly fast paced perspective of the music video with it cutting every second or so and slowing down on major lines and verses.

Visually the music video amplfys the insanity behind the lyrics the more the song goes on the more the scenery becomes disjointed, broken and adds more and more items in which could inflict pain.
the ending is specially in relation to the lyrics as they slow and fade out as the fire and insanity take over.
Every character has a specific location in which they are placed, and each singer has specific lines they sing each linking to their backgrounds and scenes. The constant cuts to Suicide squad also show that the characters location and actions are in direct response to the lyrics."That's why my heart cold, full of sorrow, the lost soul is one line which stands out from the rest, its used to confirm that these characters are slowly becoming more and more dangerous and insane.

The narrative itself fits the song lyrics and the pacing, it does this by displaying a setting in which is dark and gloomy with aspects that connote danger, such as chains and prison cells. The glimpses of Suicide Squad footage shown reflect the Movies characters ever growing desperation to escape the pain in which they have caused and endured.





The genre of music is rock and the visuals amplify it by incorporating a dull dark undertone to the video and this is a genre convention of rock music dark visuals. The neon lights are reminiscent of punk genre which is also Reminiscent  within the Lyrics of the video as pain is a convention of punk rock and both the visuals and the lyrics all connoting pain allow for the video to link together with its genre.

There is a narrative within the video and the scenes where they are pulling chains is a link towards the lyrics of the music and also relate to the songs name of sucker for pain. The chains and Prison like environment is remissnt of the links to the flashes towards the movie scenes where the characters live in prison giving it a lot more of an ability to link the two.

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