I will be comparing two of The Clash's videos to help me to analyse their visual style and image.
The first video I chose to use is 'London Calling' and the second video I have chosen to use is 'The Call Up'.
Both videos are quite dark, The Call Up being filmed in black and white. and London Calling in colour - but at night time. So that the colours still tend to be dark with a bright spotlight flashing around, adding those little bits of bright colour.
The visual image of The Clash is most prominent through their clothing style with black skinny jeans, doc martins and ripped shirts or leather jackets. This is one of the first things I noticed about the band when watching their music videos. So it shows how dominant of their image how they dress actually is.
My artist uses camera and editing style effects to reflect the song through fast and slower shots when the music changes pace. This seems to be a very common feature of their songs, along with having more than one location with more than one thing going on at once. which works well and doesn't seem to be confusing whatsoever.
The song London Calling to me relates to the film Billy Elliot as it was one of the first times I personally heard and recognised it from. Which mean that it relates to at least one media text pretty well!. (Also the song we're actually doing for our music video was also recognisable to me in Billy Elliot as well) The artists do this to assure their song is getting heard through different aspects of the media. Even if it was on adverts or on television people would still here the song therefore publicising it to everyone. This makes the song more familiar to people therefore more well known.
Here is a link to the clip of Billy Elliot that has London Calling in the Background:
Billy Elliot London Calling Clip
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