Video Analysis 3: Blame Halo 3

This is an amateur music video to a parody song for Akon's 'Blame it on Me'. I thought that it would be good to analyse an unprofessional video and see how things differ from a professional music video. Both the song and the video were created by James At War, and the video has reached over 8 million views and is highly popular.
The video is completely illustrative of the lyrics, with almost every scene following the actions describe in the song, which helps make this video humorous which is why so many people have watched it. I want my video to be funny for people to watch as well so that they can enjoy it in a different way to most music video's today.
The video has been out for years now, so it hasn't got the best video quality, and quite often the camera is unsteady, which are both elements that i wish to avoid in my video. To do this i shall be using a Canon 550D so that i can shoot in HD, and i will use a tripod for most of the shots where possible.

Video Analysis 2: Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

The video to bring me to life heavily reflects the mood and meaning of the song. The song is quite a dark gothic rock song, and the video has low lighting and gothic feel to it even though it appears as a type of futuristic city. Everything begins slowly and gently just like the song itself, using slow pan shots, zooms and long cuts. Then as the guitar and bass start, making the music more forceful and increases the overall speed of the song, it switches to her falling, then back to her sleeping when it goes quiet again.

In the video, the main character, also lead singer, awakens and climbs out the window. The way she moves is almost like she is being possessed or spirit like, which could link back to the title, bring me to life, with her being possessed and her true self needing to be brought back. After she climbs out the window she scales the building to the room where the band is playing, like she is drawn to the music coming from there. On the way she passes people and they don’t even notice that she’s there, making her seem more like a spirit. When she reaches the room, one of the band members actually sees her, and opens the window to let her in. When he does, it seems like she is suddenly awoken and she stumbles and falls, and he’s there to save her. All these actions are very illustrative of the lyrics within the song.