- Rock music is usually a darker side to music videos. The heavy guitar and strong drum beat represent a more night time feel to the music, and so most rock music videos are set in darkness or places of less than perfect happiness. The lighting really reflects, using a lot of low key lighting.
- However, some music videos feature comic elements for rock, for example Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard is a funny video but is a rock song. Then Enter Sandman - Metallica represents the kind of rock that people are used to, with the lyrics reflecting the darkness in the video.
- The band usually features in the music video playing, this gives the video a performance element to it and can keep the audience occupied. This also means that there is less time for narrative, and so it may not be as strong.
- Mid shots and close ups are common in these music videos, to see the artist playing and then to see their expression in correspondence to the lyrics of the song.
- An examples of a darker rock video are Bring Me To Life - Evanescence, and Enter Sandman - Metallica
An Example of a comic music video is Dude Looks Like a Lady - Aerosmith.
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