Green Day American Idiot
The music video I am doing an analysis on is by Green Day, and the song of the video is American Idiot. The genre of their music is Punk Rock and can be categorised some other alternatives (Rock, Pop Rock). Characteristics of this genre are displayed in the mise-en-scene and costume design, as Rock artists are often wearing leathers, jeans, plain t-shirts, and most of their hair is styled.
The video cuts to the beat often to match the band playing the instruments followed by many close ups of the singer lip syncing to the music, the video is also very fast paced with some quick jump cuts, for example at the beginning when the shots jump from a close up of the vocalists face to a TV with the image of the album cover and then a long shot of him alone playing the guitar.
As for inter textual references in the music video is the American play in the background whilst the band are performing, also referencing the name of the song "American Idiot" as for other references visually there aren't any more. The music video is mostly performance based as in the majority of the video you see that band performing with many close ups and long shots focused mainly on them. Also generally Green Day's music are quite rebellious almost like how the media tend to present how teenagers act.
In conclusion it is safe to assume that this music video clearly shows its genre because of the contents in it, such as the costume, camera, and editing. Typically the Rock genre has many shots of the band performing and quick shots of the instruments which match to the beat of the music.
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