Textual Analysis 1

The video I am analysing is a song by the foo fighters and song being My hero this song is in the rock/alternative genre, mainly due to the distortion of a guitar, bombastic drums, deep bass line and loud sometimes smooth vocals. .
This video is a narrative based song mainly because he’s narrating about his hero through song, although it could be concept based in some ways such as an idea of a vigilante attempting to be a super hero or typical citizen trying to win a girls heart, as we see at the end of the film.

The relationship between the lyrics and video match very well, since this video has a long take for the majority of the film you basically see a guy, running to places to help people the lyrics are long that say “too alarming now to talk about” this signifies that he cant stop to talk he’s got to save something/someone, also when ever the guy we see is about to save something for a member of the public the lyrics say “there goes my hero, watch him as he goes” which is perfect camera work, that’s when the music changes pace with the music going faster, but during a verse its just quiet and smooth.

During the whole song mainly the artist is just talking about his hero, obviously written through song. Also during the end of the song, you can see Dave Grohl (lead singer/guitar) looking into a tv seeing himself singing/performing. There are also close ups when the “hero” enters a new house, seeing the artists playing in the Smokey/ fiery house, this sort of image goes along saying “yeah were alright, our hero’s here now were safe” sort of thing, seeing as they are playing in a fiery house. With close ups of all the band members faces. The image of the band is looking like they are helpless when in the houses playing their music, but when ever the hero saves something their eyes are blacked out, making it seem like they are also a serious band.

This video can relate to things such as firemen, super hero’s, mainly cause of the point the song being about “my hero” these are things that fire men and super hero’s do on a daily basis.

To sum up this essay is fairly easy, this is a narrative based video, with a genre of rock/alternative, the song being about a hero saving precious things for the public, the band expressing their feelings through lyrics/video.