Eg Video 9: Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows Video Analysis

Artist: Queens Of The Stone Age
Song: No One Knows
Directors: Dean Karr/Michel Gondry
Genre: Hard Rock
Year: 2002
Audience: 14-25

The music video for this song is another with comedy value, It features the band members driving through the forest in a car when they hit a deer which proceeds to tie them up and go on a rampage. The song cuts between narrative and performance footage with a fairly discontinuity style of editing. Lots of parts are sped up which gives the video an interesting feel and overall the the editing is genrally fast paced and speeds up with the pace of the song. 

The performance footage is the band on a black background with a strange glow which changes colour throughout around the members. This is likely done with a green screen something we wouldn't have access too whilst making our coursework but it works well in this video. The comedy element gives the song good replay value and makes the video quite entertaining. 

This video also feature shaky camera work as have many of the others, this seems to be a trend in comparison to last years coursework. A challenge with recreating this sort of thing would be access to a car. "No One Knows" received heavy rotation on music video channels culminating in a nomination for the MTV2 Award at 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.