The first of the Green Day music videos that I'm going to analyse is 21 Guns
This video has had 24 206 394 views.
The areas that the music video is looked at the most in the world is shown below in the map off of Youtube:
The music video "21 Guns" has lots of close ups to convey the emotions of the male and female leads. The song is essentially about love and represents the 21st century breakdown, which is the name of the album that the song comes from. The narrative of the music video is that bullets are flying around the room and tearing everything apart but they are waling towards each other unharmed by the bullets.
This conveys the "power of love"
The video opens with the boy looking at the bullet in his hand, there is then close up of the bullet and it falls to the ground. It then cuts to Billy- Joe Armstrong singing the opening line of the song "do you know whats worth fighting for?" then we see all of the other members of the band.
The next video is The last of the American girls -
The map that is on Youtube that shows which countries in the world have been watching the music video on Youtube:
This video has had 1048 463 viewings worldwide.
The video starts with an image of a chair with some head phones on it. The video then moves on to Billy-Joe Armstrong singing and then to the drummer and then to the guitarist. The video switches between the band and images of a house that looks a bit run down and messy.
The narrative of this music video is the girl (who is the same girl from the 21 Guns video) doing everyday thing such as brushing her teeth or taking a bath. The setting for the main part of the video is in the desert and parts of the house are moved outside, for example the bed and the bath.
The video then switches between the band palying in the desert and her doing the ordinary say things.
The video then switches between the band palying in the desert and her doing the ordinary say things.
And the last of the music videos is wake me up when September ends - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0&ob=av2n
This video has had 6,519,636 viewings on Youtube.
The map that shows the areas in which people have been watching the video form Youtube:
The video opens in a corn field where a boy and a girl are talking, there are close ups of them kissing, it teen goes to a extreme close up of the lead singers eye that moves across his face and to his lips and we see an extreme close up as he sings the beggining of the song. The camera isn't always in focus as it goes across his face. It then cuts to the corn field again and then to them leaving and going into town, (most of the rest of the video is of them doing normal things that teenage couples do)
It then cuts to the band playing, in like a warehouse. and then to people in the army. from there the audience see a war zone.
The images that are in the war zone (Iraq) of the debris is mirrored in the warehouse with the band using the lights.
It could be said that the videos meaning is of the events of the 9/11 bombings this is according to Wikipiedia. it could be seen as an anti- war segment to the video.
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