My music video, The Sound of Truth by As I Lay Dying, holds a plot within the movie. There are many music videos out there that have no story behind them at all. They just show the band over and over again in different settings. For me to truly enjoy a music video, I think that there needs to be something more than just the music. There needs to be a meaning.
At the beginning of the movie, we are given a scene of a woman obviously about to be pushed off of a large cliff to her death. Behind her stand two guards dressed in complete black. The black alone symbolizes that these men are working for the bad side, whatever they may be. Right away, the viewer notices the color scheme for the video. Everything shown in the video is gray, black, or rainy. The color scheme symbolizes the dark story that the video is about to unveil. After we see the lady on the edge, the video shows the rest of the people forming a small mob. At this point, we are introduced to the villain of the story. He is standing in front of a video recorder sending a video to all of the people of him wearing black gloves and black clothes shouting his demands of the citizens. This point reminds me a great deal of 1984 where they had Big Brother who watched over them and sent out the daily hate to the people. We quickly learn that he has taken a dictatorship position over the people and the people don't seem to like it. As the story goes on and the mob grows more and more crazy, we learn that the dictator wanted to kill this woman because of some defect on her hands that he thought was unholy. As this one man rallies everyone against the dictator, the man starts to lose his power over the people. At this exact moment, two people dressed the exact same as the black men pictured at the beginning of the video show up to the dictator but when they take off their masks we can see that one of the men is the man in charge of rallying everyone. These two men grab the dictator and take him in front of the mob, who at this point are going absolutely mad. They take a vote from the mob and everyone wants him to be sacrificed like he did to all the people with the small defect. The only one who wasn't yelling for him to be murdered was the girl that we originally saw in the beginning of the video. She seemed to be the only person who had any compassion for the man who tried to kill her. When a couple of men throw him down to the ground they also strip him of his gloves and the entire mob freezes when they see that this dictator had the same defect that he hurt all of these other people for.
The main point of this video is to point out the irony of life. The only person who wasn't fighting for the dictator's death was the same woman who he was trying to kill before. Not only that, but this man was trying to get rid of every person with this defect when he himself suffered from the same problem. All of these create a dramatic effect to the story. As the movie goes on the rain gets harder and harder until the very end when the dictator is exposed. At that point, the rain stops completely and so do the people. I think that the rain could symbolize the people's hate. As they get more and more pissed, the rain gets harder and harder but when they realize that the dictator was just like them, the hate stops, and so does the rain.
The main point of this video is to point out the irony of life. The only person who wasn't fighting for the dictator's death was the same woman who he was trying to kill before. Not only that, but this man was trying to get rid of every person with this defect when he himself suffered from the same problem. All of these create a dramatic effect to the story. As the movie goes on the rain gets harder and harder until the very end when the dictator is exposed. At that point, the rain stops completely and so do the people. I think that the rain could symbolize the people's hate. As they get more and more pissed, the rain gets harder and harder but when they realize that the dictator was just like them, the hate stops, and so does the rain.
