Example of Similar Media Texts: Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

Website Link: http://www.muzu.tv/queensofthestoneage/no-one-knows-music-video/195767?country=gb

This video for 'No One Knows' by Queens of the Stone Age seems to combine both narrative and live performance elements to its video, without strictly conforming to either element. The narrative of the video is confusing and doesn't seem to have any real point, or relevance to the song, an example of this is the band running over a moose, and then being beaten up by the moose. This gives a disorientating feel to the video, and the makes the audience continue to watch as its interesting if confusing. The live performance element is also not the normal thing to expect from a music video, as it is not in front of a crowd, and it more just the band performing to the camera, on a dark background, with the band members highlighted by an outline. The video is edited with a series of quick cuts and each shot is short, in order to match the tempo of the song. At the point of the breakdown, the number of shots slows down, before speeding up again as the song increases in tempo once more.This entire video is quite strange and doesn't conform in any way to the stardard conventions of a rock video, as neither narrative of performance aspect quite make sense. However, the video is memorable for this reason, as the video sticks in the memory of the audience, and can therefore be related back to the song.