Guillermo Del Toro

Massive Attack - Angel

The music video for angel has been done in a style like an old black and white silent film, by the way they have made the screen crack and holes appear like an old damaged video. It has a surreal plot and has a creepy feel to it from how the characters in the video move slowly and smoothly. This video would be mostly aimed towards an audience who are fans of surreal and independent films as this seems to remind me of stereotypical arty film fair movies.

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

The video for sledgehammer has been done in stop motion using various ways of using stop motion, such as most of it having been done using photographs, but also using clay. The video is used to help describe what he is singing about in the song by making visual references to specific words he's used such as when he says fruit his face is transformed into being made of fruit and when he says sledgehammer his head made of ice is smashed by a sledgehammer. This video is aimed at being amusing to a wide audience of people by having a gimmicky style which is not commonly used.

Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People Music Video

The video for Beautiful people has strong horror theme to it, by the way they have used pale make up, and mix of metal and organic giving it an almost bio-organic look, which is sometimes seen in surreal horror films. There is an ironic style to the video from the way all they have emphasized the ugly features of the people in the video such as the camera focusing on the gums of them or the metal bracers like devices some of them wearing, directly in contrast to the title of the song. This video is aimed mostly at goth culture from the way the people in the video look with pale skin, dark eye liner and lipstick.

Hands Research

Research on hands based on the line "If your hands were mine they would not sever"

I chose images of hands in a praying sort of position, because the song has some religious themes in it such as it being in an old irish folk style which gives me the impression of it being sung by someone who is a christian also some of the lyrics are religion related such as "Oh, and thanks be to jesus"

I could use imagery of praying hands in one of my images, like showing them severed pair of praying hands to coincide with the lyrics.

Also I have chose an image of a pair of frozen hands combining the same idea as before with "and the touch of frost" which i could use to create a more unique image. One idea that has come from this is maybe one image could be something like a pair severed praying hands covered that might be frosting over or made of ice.

Tree

Pictures of trees to give me an idea of an image i could do. The song mentions an apple tree in it so i could do an image of an apple tree for one of my scenes then photo manipulate it to give a dead look or do it being hit by lightning to fit in with some of the other lines in the song whiel also fitting in with its feel.

Death

Various images of different representations of death, which fit in with my song choice because it has many elements in it that give the impression of a death.

I've chosen an image of the more traditional symbols of death such as the grim reaper and also an image representing seeing a light at the end of a tunnel when dying.