Saturday, 29 September 2012

AMBER - Examples of existing music videos that fall into Goodwin’s theory - AMPLIFICATION

Amplification






Linkin Park are an American rock band and ‘Numb’ is one of their well known and critically acclaimed songs, released as the third single from their second album Meteora. The lyrics reflect someone’s emotions of feeling under pressure and alone and in the video the main persona, a teenage girl, gives the vibes of these emotions. This leads me to believe that this music video reflects the theory of Amplification because she doesn’t act out what the lyrics say. However, she gives a new meaning to the words as we see her going about her day and we are shown the struggles she has to go through. Therefore the intense struggles of her life amplify the lyrics to make them seem real so that the audience can relate to her because the lyrics are put into context and we are shown how they can affect someone’s life. 



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