Rock/Garage Genre

Origins of Rock• Rock music is a genre of popular

music that originated from ‘Rock & Roll’ from the U.S in the 1950s. Rock then expanded into it’s own genre, mainly in the States and the UK. Rock is centred around the Electric guitar, but a rock group is normally made up from a lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, drums and a vocalist. Rock music is typically in the 4/4 time, with a verse-chorus form. A few well known first rock bands include: The Beatles, The Hollies, The searchers and The Rolling Stones.

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

The Searchers

Origins of Garage rock.

• Garage rock was a form of amateurish rock music particularly popular in North America in the 60’s. It was called garage music as there was a perception that it was rehearsed in a typical garage on a house. Garage rock songs would typically be about teenage angst and highschool life, with a lot of songs being about problems with girls. The lyrics are delivered more aggressively than standard rock with occasionally shouting and screaming. ‘The Wailers’ and ‘The Kingsmen’ are examples of early garage rock bands.

Codes & Conventions of Garage rock.

• Garage rock is called garage rock as it is meant to be amateur type music performed in your parents garage when you’re a teenager. It has a very raw/naive style typically talking about problems/anger. There is a lot of shouting, distortion and general loud vibe around garage music to create a loud feeling and noise. Typically a garage rock band will actually sound better live than they do on a record as you can really get the energetic vibe and feelings that the band are aiming for.

Arctic Monkeys – When the sun goes down• This music video doesn’t include the

band members playing their instruments at all. Instead the video follows the story of the lyrics of the song. The video is quite dark, this is backed up my the lighting and the mood set in the video. With a sort of rough style it matches the song style as it is recorded with a lot of distortion and feedback

• The cutting rhythm copies the pace of the video, with lots of slow cuts towards the start of the video where the song is slow and speeding up majorly when the music gets louder and faster. The camera movement also follows this pattern, with many steady shots at the beginning and lots of fast moving shots where the music is fast and louder.

The Raconteurs – Steady As She Goes.

• EditingThe cutting rate in this video follows the tempo and volume of the song, When it is quiet, the editing is slow, when it is loud, the editing is fast. This video also uses an effect very similar to that of the ‘Hate to say I told you so’ video by The Hives, which is the motion blur. The blur gives a very fast paced effect creating movement in the video.

• StyleThe style of this video is very garage like, as they are playing in a cramped small room, similar to a garage. The video shows all the band members playing their instruments and singing along, with various random shots and overlays of cows and random things. There is a big contrast in the band clothing as Jack White (the lead singer) Is wearing a leather jacket, yet the rest seem to be wearing different forms of suits or shirts and blazers.

• CameraThere are a lot of close up shots/extreme close ups in this video. Mainly on either instruments or Jack White’s face as he sings. The camera also is very jerky at some points when the chorus kicks in giving a live, jumping up and down, sort of feel. The video has either been filmed on an old camera, or been made to look that way as the video is distorted with a low frame rate and sepia tone.