Band and song choice (Over View)

Open To Offers

Open to Offers are a band based in Portishead made up of a group of my peers. The band's sound is similar to the likes of The Kooks, The Enemy, The Pigeon detectives and The Libertines. Research into these band's music videos and identifying the conventions of these videos, as well as consulting with the band members about what there preferences for themes and conventions to include in the video.

James Lovatt

Role in Band: Vocals

Kit Lavis 

Role in Band: Lead Guitar

Henry Sergent

Role in the Band: Rhythm Guitar

Matt Lazenby

Role in Band: Drums

                                                                     The Black Keys

The Black keys can be described as southern, blues, rock, and alternative. The band have a range of music videos ranging from low budget videos film in their home town akron ohio, to high production value videos with more complex concepts.

Dan Auerbach

Role in Band:

Patrick Carney

Role in the Band:

The Foo Fighters

The Foo fighters are a an alternative rock band formed in the 90's and the typical foo fighters music videos includes alot of dressing up and in drag. Similarly this band have videos that vary drastically in production value and camera quality. One convention that i have already identified from the foo fighters videos is that they always contain the whole band playing specific role and also playing instruments.

Dave Grohl

Role in Videos: Dave Grohl is nearly always the main character in their videos (Walk, Long road to ruin, Low, Everlong) and Dave also plays a character in the videos, be it in drag in the video long road to ruin or as a punk in the video Everlong. The band often direct there own videos so dave sometimes takes on the role of director and plays a key part in creating their videos.

Representation: The role that dave plays in these videos make him out to be very animated and fun.

Position in band: Rhythm guitar, Lead vocals

Chris Shifflet

Role in Videos:

Position in band: Lead Guitar

Nate Mendal

Role in Videos: Nate is generally a supporting actor to the main characters played by Dave. In 'learn to fly' Dave Grohl plays almost every character except for a few characters played by Nate and the rest of the band. In the song 'Everlong' Nate plays the evil character which isn't necessarily a convention, but more of a variation of the roles in the videos.

Position in band: Bass Guitar, one of the original members of the band Nate, has a large influence in the way the band is run, in terms of the musical direction of the band.

Taylor Hawkins

Role in Videos:

Position in band: Drums, Backing Vocals