music video analyses

The music video that I have chosen to analyse is 'Linkin Park-New divide'. I have chosen this video because I am very fond the song and also the video uses a great range of different visual effects. This song was also written and used in the film 'Transformers Revenge of the fallen'. This means that it would contain bits of footage from the film. This means that this music video uses synergy.

This songs story is based upon the storyline of 'Transformers Revenge of the fallen' which is about an ancient evil being awaken and causing havoc within the world in which the good guys have to defeat him. However although the song follows the basis of this of the story line for this film the music video doesn't. In fact the video is more of a promotional video for the film encouraging people to go and see/buy the film.

The video its self uses a lot of bright contrasting colours put into a kind of negative format.
When there is a clear shot of the band the set in which they filming looks like one of the scenes from the movie. This means that their is another direct link between the movie and the song and also the music video.

This is an image from 16:00 seconds into the music video and you can clearly see the outline and figures of the characters from 'Transformers'.

At 18:00 seconds the negative piece of footage then morphs into the next piece of footage which is a scene from the film. This whole process only lasts 2 seconds yet is very clear and is very effective into the link between the scenes.

This image from 1:13 of the music is a clear shot from the film 'Transformers'. This shows a direct link between the two.

This image is from 2:02 of the music video, it shows one of the many effects that is used within this music video (heat detector/ thermal imaging), at this moment in the song the singer sings 'there was no where to hide, the ashes fell like snow', as you can see in this image there a small red dots that resemble ashes falling.

Throughout the entire ,music video it splits between the film and the band playing the song. this is very effective as it adds to the effect of the video. I think that it all fits together perfectly and all is really effective in terms of describing the story of both the song and the film.

Overall I feel this is a great video and is very entertaining to watch and the song is also very good. I think this is a good video to help our production of a video as it uses visual effects extremely well and makes it all fit perfectly together and none of it looks out of place.