I am doing a music video for the song “All Downhill From Here” by New Found Glory. The genre of this band is Pop Punk, so I am going to look at some other Pop Punk bands Music Videos. These are Blink 182's "All the Small Things" and Bowling for Soup's "1985".
In both videos humour is used with the lyrics playing in the background whilst being loosely related to what is being portrayed in the video, this appears to be quite a popular tech
nique to be used by in pop punk videos, another popular feature is to have the band performing whilst the events of the video are unfolding around them. When the performances are used in the music videos they tend to focus on the Vocalist but are also quite often long shots of the full band are used as there isn't
really a "face of the band" it's all about everyone being just as important. On the music video for “All the Small Things” we see very little performance by the band as it instead focuses on the humorous locations and settings which is another typical convention of the pop punk Genre.
In the video for “1985” we see use of Illustrative visuals with relevance of narrative to the lyrics in that the full video is essentially an homage to music videos from 1985 such as Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" in which the videos is recreated with members of Bowling for Soup instead. This is similar as "All the Small Things" but they make fun of more recent typical boy band videos such as when a guy and a girl having a romantic moment together near the sea it is two guys instead.
Both videos contain multiple intertextual references to other music videos as they both are basically parodies of music videos with Bowling for Soup's referencing 80's music videos whereas Blink 182 references more recent videos.
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