Our Favourite Music Videos and Why

Connor Nagle - Waiting all night - Rudimental

This is my favourite music video because I love how real the video is and it also relates to the lyrics well. The narrative is really good and is a life story of a BMX champion and actor Kurt Yaeger, who lost his lower leg in a motorcycle accident in 2006. This video is also inspired by the 2012 paralympic games in London and this video also links in with their other singles which are Not Giving In and Feel The Love and they are about overcoming struggles so they shot the piece in a home video style to fit in.

The shots are pretty simplistic but they are emphasised by the realistic element of the whole narrative which forms a good music video in this instance in my opinion. There is good use of clothing throughout to make it fit in with the narrative that they are going for. The settings are very realistic because the first one is in a hospital with the man laying on the bed, the second is at a skate park where he is trying to find his feet again after the fatal accident that ruined his career and the third one is where they are cycling through a storm drain in America. There is quite fast paced editing in this music video and this goes along with the song and fast beat of the song.




Jack Fanchette - Destabilise - Enter Shikari

This is my favourite music video because of how the editing is done. It is also well done from being in such a simple location (a warehouse). The album the song was eventually released on (A Flash Flood Of Colour) was all about the singers views on how our economy and politics has changed since the band's first album 'Take to the Skies' (2007).

The whole video consists of the band performing by themselves in what appears to be an abandoned warehouse. There is not much of a narrative in the video so it mainly relies on the shots used, the editing and the accuracy of the lip syncing. In my opinion, I believe these aspects were executed brilliantly. The editing is used to emphasise certain points in the video and the song (e.g. the start of the chorus). It also helps to relate to the album itself; there are many parts in the video where the colouring dramatically changes, relating to the album name 'Flash Flood Of Colour'.




Reece Field - Needing Getting - Ok Go

This is my favourite music video because I like the song but mostly because it is fascinating to watch and I like the way that it all flows. I am a fan of most of Ok Go music videos for this reason. There is no narrative shown in this video, like in many other Ok Go music videos. But just look at how clever this music video is, how many artists have a car playing their song. Their work is in a league of its own in the way that it is poles apart from anything your mainstream band, group or artist would do.

In Needing/Getting in particular the attention to detail is phenomenal. There is an endless list of things that could go wrong in this music video and yet nothing does. It is its complexity, diversity and originality which, in my opinion, make this the most entertaining music video in the world.




By Connor Nagle, Jack Fanchette and Reece Field.