Rock music video 2: Guns N' Roses - Sweet child O mine

Analysis

Editing

In relation to editing, all of the shots are cut very faced paced, this is stereotypical of rock and roll music. As well as this, it creates a sense of chaos and mayhem which is typical to rock and roll music also. In addition, there is varietal use of black and white and normal colour shots. This creates a retro feel to the music video, Guns N' Roses are an old and classic rock band so the black and white footage does fit amongst the colour shots. During the time this music video was shot, they were not as old and classic as they are now, they were in their prime as a rock band, despite this the black and white shots are well suited to the music video.

Mise en scene

Noticeably, the use of musical instruments such as guitars, drum sets and microphones are used as props but they are more subtle as they are expected in a rock and roll music video and are therefore seen less obviously as props. As the shots are of the bands performance, they are seen throughout the entire video. Furthermore, another prop that I saw throughout were cigarettes, the band members were smoking cigarettes in the non performance as well as the performance shots. This gave me the impression they were very causal about their line of work, smoking is also part of the Rock and roll image, so this is typical of the genre.
The clothes the band were wearing (costumes) were very dark, the majority of the pieces of clothing were black which is conventional to the 'darkness' of rock and roll. Most Rock and roll artists wore and still wear dark clothes, its just tradition. The body language seen in the music video from all of the band members was very chilled out and relaxed which gave a 'too cool for school' impression.

Camerawork

As I mentioned in the beginning, the editing was very fast paced and chaotic, but so was the camerawork, the camera was constantly moving and zooming in and out of shots, this added more chaos to the video, but it works if that is the vibe the video is trying to create. The whole video was of the bands performance, despite a few short shots of the band members sitting around and talking to girls.