To begin researching for the music video, my tutor gave me and my
fellow students a starting example. He started telling us about feature length
music videos containing every song from an artist's album known as
"Concept Albums". The example he showed us was "Pink Floyd's:
The Wall".
"The Wall" contains no dialogue and no straight forward
meaning or purpose, it can be perceived in many different ways. It tells the
story of Pink, a young boy who's father dies at war, and how it affects him
throughout his life, as he isolates himself from the rest of the world with a
metaphorical "wall" built of each bad thing that happens to him,
resulting in being "Just bricks in the wall".
From my point of view, I could clearly see it was very conceptual
and art-like. I can understand why viewers would appreciate the film and how
they could relate to it emotionally, however; I personally didn't like it, purely due to my choice in film. If I were to watch something that is over an hour long, I'd like it to be scripted and have a straight forward plot with some twists and turns a long the way, not to be told through song.
I think it is a very unique film, and only a couple of
other bands/artists have attempted to make a similar style film (e.g. Daft
Punk's: "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem" and "Electroma").
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