Tool – the pot

1. Tool – The Pot
A lot of Tool videos tend to have a
narrative structure to their videos,
and this video is no different. In this
video stop-motion animation is used,
this is because the band Tool are
known for their artist and very
experimental songs and videos, and
although the songs lyrics are not in
anyway related to the images, the
editing is done to a way which is
related. Tool also tend to use a lot of
dark imagery in their songs, and it
also shows in their videos. A lot of
the imagery in these videos have
very little relation to the music, but a
lot of the video is filled with surreal
images.

2. oomph! - augen auf
•This is a gothic rock video, and it has a lot of commonly
associated images in the video - lots of disturbing clips of
children and their demonic faces, most of the members in the
band are wearing black and have facial piercings.
The camera shots also cut between the narrative of the video
and the band in time with the song. There are also lots of close
ups of the band members faces - playing their instruments. This
video highly references the film - The Shining and the wicker
man - because there is two little twins sitting side by side,
wearing old fashioned gowns, and a man wearing a animal
mask – very similar to the ones in the Wicker man.
In translation the lyrics talks about children playing innocent
games like hid and seek, while the music video contradicts this
because the children are not innocent, their evil.
•The majority of Oomph’s videos are located in creep houses of
dark alleyways, this helps set the mood of the songs which are
usually quiet dark in there meanings.

3. 30 Seconds To Mars: Kings and
Queens
•In this video The camera does cut between the
band and the narrative. This gives up plenty of
close up shots of the lead sing.
The song lyrics are about harmony and people
coming together, which can be linked the video
because it show up hundreds of people all
riding bikes along side each other.
The style in which this video is shot, uses a lot
of rich dark colours and not only gives us great
cinematography, but also gives us the
impression that this is a epic, very powerful
song. The video looks very crisp And I like it
because it has some wonderful shot moments,
and some great long shots that you see so
rarely in music videos.
•The film is shot around LA at night time, so
that they could great some beautiful shot of the
city with all the lights gleaming. This also adds
to the idea that they wanted to make a video
that looked great for their newly released
single.

4. Sigur Ros – Untitled