Foo fighters itself
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Foo Fighters – The Pretender The music video for this song is definitely a type that would go under ‘rock music videos’ genre style umbrella. The performance is the main part of this video as it is quite common for rock genre. It is very powerful, there are a lot of pan shots, tracking shots and zooms. The letterbox format and fast cut montage even enhance that dynamic feel. Two shots on the right have an interval of around half a second one after the other. It starts with the shot on the top, and then it cuts to the bottom scene, although it starts with the shot having Dave Grohl (vocalist) on the right and finally it pans to the composition seen in the bottom screenshot. It all happens very quickly and is a part of the heavy guitars introduction. Also, any rapid moves are usually accompanied with guitar drops sot it all works perfectly to create that alive, almost electric atmosphere. The music video is driven with quite a rebellious idea just like the song itself but it still does not illustrate it exactly. The chorus ‘What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender. What if I say I will never surrender?’ illustrates the idea here. There is an atmosphere of riot here, kind of a protest against the authorities. The band members, especially the vocalist are very aggressive and they sound like they have a reason for it. From the start of the video there can be seen a black line going across the whole hangar. As the chorus goes in for the first time the first police officer appears just behind the line, standing frontally to the The time interval between the two shots above is around 0.5 sec. During that time there is a change of distance and a pan shot. Close up of Dave Grohl singing the
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Foo Fighters – The Pretender
The music video for this song is definitely a type that would go under ‘rock music videos’ genre style umbrella. The performance is the main part of this video as it is quite common for rock genre. It is very powerful, there are a lot of pan shots, tracking shots and zooms. The letterbox format and fast cut montage even enhance that dynamic feel. Two shots on the right have an interval of around half a second one after the other. It starts with the shot on the top, and then it cuts to the bottom scene, although it starts with the shot having Dave Grohl (vocalist) on the right and finally it pans to the composition seen in the bottom screenshot. It all happens very quickly and is a part of the heavy guitars introduction. Also, any rapid moves are usually accompanied with guitar drops sot it all works perfectly to create that alive, almost electric atmosphere.
The music video is driven with quite a rebellious idea just like the song itself but it still does not illustrate it exactly. The chorus ‘What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender. What if I say I will never surrender?’ illustrates the idea here. There is an atmosphere of riot
here, kind of a protest against the authorities. The band members, especially the vocalist are very aggressive and they sound like they have a reason for it. From the start of the video there can be seen a black line going across the whole hangar. As the chorus goes in for the first time the first police officer appears just behind the line, standing frontally to the
band. After around 50 seconds, when chorus is sang for the second time the officer seems to be annoyed with the defiance, shouts in anger and the whole riot unit joins him. The third time chorus goes in, the unit starts running towards the band in attempt to ‘sort them back in order’. A clear
relation between the rhythm, lyrics and the image can be seen, although not a clear illustration. Therefore this music video is an amplification of the lyrics.
The time interval between the two shots above is around 0.5 sec. During that time there is a change of distance and a pan shot.
Close up of Dave Grohl singing the chorus
Riot police running towards the band in attempt to 'silence' them
The red screen which stood right behind the band since the start of the video suddenly explodes, overwhelming the police officers
