Adrians O - Media Studies

 Rock Music Video Analysis For the analysis I'll be choosing the music video from Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams which follows a punk rock genre as it does for most of their music. Overlooking the whole music video it consistently displays itself as looking quite 'grunge-like' as it uses really grey and dark tones thorough the colour key's, this combined with frequent visual effects of  this dirt scratched effect that's used in combination makes it look almost depressing. If we take away all audio we can see it's almost portraying the the world just moving around him leaving him behind and alone. Which if we tie this in with the audio it presents itself as a whole picture of him talking about being alone and walking the never-ending streets of New York.  Scenes within the music video represent this idea even further with him walking through many different places from the desert to random ruins and neighbour hoods generally all in fast succession showing ...

 Conventions of Rock   What is Rock? Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated from the United States along with the United Kingdom within the similar timeframe of the 1950's - 1960's. Rock has evolved over many years and as a result has created many sub genres that many do not even know about. The general conventions of rock include having a strong backbeat and they usually can be described as loud (though not limited to this) due to heavy bass drums. Finally it usually follows a main verse throughout.  What types of sub genres exist within Rock (and artists)? There is a vast variety of sub genre's of rock and they range vastly in style, for example you could go anywhere from Jazz-Rock to Heavy Metal which for obvious reasons sound vastly different. However there are many other variations such as Britpop, Indie Rock and Punk rock.   Britpop originated from the UK band 'The Beatles' and the type of music they made, this is one type of example of a s...