#6 Video Which Includes Band/Artists in A Creative Way

It isn’t very uncommon to find music videos that don’t feature the band members themselves in one way or another. However, the majority of bands nowadays do only have a video that is a plain recording of them performing, there aren’t many to be found that actually involve the band doing productive.

Caribou – She’s the One:

Directed by Daniel Eskils, this music video combines both live action and animation. The animated parts consist of what looks like little cardboard cut-outs of the band members and their instruments that appear at the corners of the screen. There is also a little bird cut-out that flies around the scene occasionally. I think that this bird takes significant status in the video, from the title you presume that the song is about a girl, but the video begins to suggest that the song is about the relationship between a man and his bird (some breed of Parrot I think).

Fanfarlo – Harold T. Wilkins:

The video to this track is by Stachemou, the duo of Klaas Diersmann and Dan Sutherland. . There is also another video for this track that can be found on YouTube that is called ‘How to wait for a Long Time’. In the Vimeo video, the members of Fanfarlo are examined for their ‘paranormal potential’, in a lab, by two scientists – Harold and T, Wilkins – hence the song title. To veiw the video please follow this link: http://vimeo.com/2966431

Blur – Country House:

The video for ‘Country House’ is what I would call a perfect example of this music video genre. It features the band members competing in a giant game of ‘Escape the Rat Race’. Damien (The lead singer) is looking into the camera and miming the lyrics for the majority of the video, whilst the other band members and characters run around frantically in the background. The video follows a suited character around the board and other locations that are featured in the actual song. As we follow him around, his actions match up with the lyrics, as well as some lyrics being written on pieces on the board. From 2:20 – 2:40 the video turns into a bit of a ‘parody’ of the video Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, with the four band members standing together in the same position and an opaque copy of them, rotating in the outside of the screen.