Case study 3 - BMTH - Throne

I have chosen another BMTH music video as my 3rd case study due to it being very inspirational and creative. It inspires me for my own music video as I will be making a video to one of their songs. There are many effects in their videos I would love to use in my own music video as my main task.

The video starts off quite fast as it is cutting from one shot to another. Some of the beginning shots of the videos are and outline of one thing and have another thing in the middle, eg. the outline of the man with the sunset in it. The video is both performance based and narrative as you can see the main singer and the band performing the songs, but also other symbols relating and telling the story of the lyrics. The video is very unusual and obscure as it has actors with weapons in their hands bowing down next to a coffin with their faces covered, this is the same as people would get beheaded back in the olden days.

Most of the cutting rate of the video is very fast, however, there are a few slow motion parts which allow the audience to take a breath and be able to continue keeping up with the video and still understand both the lyrics and the video. There is a slight use of motion sickness used in the video (previously seen in other videos by BMTH) which combines the filming of two videos on two different cameras. This creates a cool effect as if the image was blurred and stretched out.

The video is quite sinister as it has shots of a person laying in bed next to a skeleton and a child underneath the bed crouched. This is disturbing but very creative and cool as it gives a raw image of struggles you have to go through in life in order to archive something. This relates to the lyrics of the song 'feed me to the wolves, tomorrow i will come back leader of the whole pack', it shows that you have to conquer the obstacles in order to succeed. This is shown through the end of the video where all of the oppressed people during the video, rebel and win in the end.

This is one of my favorite music videos because its so unique and different, yet so simple and straight to the point. The song is very powerful.
I am going to adapt the following elements in my video: performance based video, slow motion parts and motion sickness techniques, I am also thinking about adding the element of animal symbolism.