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.