Music Video Analysis of Tenacious D - Tribute

Tenacious D - Tribute Music Video

In this essay , i will be analysing Tenacious D music video of their song 'Tribute' applying Godwins theory. We had to pick from this or Jay Z '99 problems'.
I chose to do Tenacious D due to this band is more similar to our genre of rock so we could use this as a example and get ideas for our band.

Links Between Lyrics and Visuals 
 
Links Between Lyrics and Visuals Here I will be talking about how Tenious D Applied one of Godwin's theory of the lyrics matching with the visuals. The music video starts of with Tenacious D walking down a long road in the Desert trying to hitch-hike. The lyrics state this saying ‘ We was Hitch-hiking down a long long road’. Also , they sing ‘ all a sudden their Shined a shiny demon’ and a demon appears in the road which is shown in the image to the left. Godwin had this theory of that the visuals of the music video match the lyrics to the song. And this shown in tenacious d music video through out as they tell the story of what happened that night.







Narrative

 This music video is a story told by these two brothers which happened to them one night. The whole music video is a story , therefore the music video strongly implies Goodwin's theory of that music videos have a narrative running through the song. Straight away you can tell that the music video is going tobe narrative based as one of the brother states ‘ A long time ago me and my brother was walking down a long road’ this shows that in this song they are going to be telling what happened that night though music.





 Star Power – Close Ups

 The record label that produced this song , applied godwins theory of close ups of the band to promote their star power. Through out the music video both men are shown in close ups. Godwins theory was that close up used to market the band. Sell the artist to the public. In this video close up are used on the double act. However , the close up are not of them individually , only very rarely. Throughout the music video , they are shown in close ups together , this symbolise the bong they have together , and how close they are. The record label is not selling them individually but together as tenacious d.













Genre Characteristics

 Genre characteristics of rock are followed in this music video. They are shown by showing the rock genre through the instruments of guitars used. Furthermore , the clothing is rocky with the way he has his un button shirt which is similar to what can be described as a punk. They don’t come across as the typical rock stars through their image , but you can take into consideration some rock characteristics they have used . However Tenacious D seem to be unique and different than other rock bands.













What did I get from this video to use in our music video?

1. In the Tenacious D video , we took the idea of their video of having a strong narrative throughout. Tenacious D engaged the audience through having their music video tell the audience a story , and we like that idea and in our music video , we want our music video to tell a story through out for the audience to be engaged.
2. Another idea we want to apply in the music video is to indicate the type of genre we are through props we use , for example we want to have band equipment  in our music video such as guitars drums ect  
3. In addition , we will use close ups of the band member to show star power and promote our band.