http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw
When I was younger, a music video that had always stood out to me was “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead. The animation of the video itself is rather unimpressive, but it follows the tone of the song very well. Most music videos that use animation use rotoscoping ,where the animators trace over live action movement from frame to frame. This video, however, is fully animated. The video does well emphasizing bold colors; like his friend wearing pink pants, or the the background will just be a single color during some parts.
The video itself is very dark, and humerus. It chronicles the day of two young boys, who first go to a spot to see a women topless, and last fly in a helicopter with an angel. I feel as the video for “Paranoid Android” and the flow the of the song match up well for each other. In the beginning of the song it starts out rather gloomy; and in the video it starts out with the main character lying on the floor of his house doing nothing, and then crying in the bathroom. Around 2:45 of the video when a heavy guitar riff starts in the song, there is a bar fight happening in the video. Then around 4:40 of the song, when the song is in a choral vocal arrangement, the main character is flying around in a helicopter with an angel.
The song changes tempo several times, and the video does so as well. I would say that the nudity, violence, and randomness of the video is very complimentary of the song, not because the song is particularly violent, but how the song is arranged. Even with all the effects they are able to do now with technology, sometimes the simplest things stand out.
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