Bob Dylan- Subterranean Homesick Blues
The first picture is at 0.02 seconds, which is zooming out to show a man holding a large number of cards. Throughout the entire video, the same man is holding the same bunch of cards. The cards have words on them that he drops once they have been sung in the song. This goes on until 2.03 when the man runs out of cards as the song finishes.
The last screenshot is at 2.08, where you see two men walking away in different directions. The men are at the side having a conversation all the way through the video.
There have been many other people that have copied the idea, such as:
- The 1992 Tim Robbins film Bob Robert features Robbins in the title role as a right-wing folk singer who uses Dylan's cue-card concept for the song "Wall Street Rap".
- The video clip for Bloodhound Gang's 1999 song "Mope", off their album Hooray For Boobies, imitates Dylan's use of cue cards in the "Subterranean" clip.
- The American punk band Anti-Flag used the concept in the clip for their song "Turncoat".
- Australian comedy team The Chaser parodied the clip twice. The first featured Chris Taylor advertising the second-half of the 2007 series return for their show, The Chaser's War on Everything. The second parody, aired during Episode 14, featured Andrew Hansen in a skit about APEC.
The video was ranked at number 7 in Rolling Stone's October 1993 list of "100 Top Music Videos". The original clip was actually the opening segment of D. A. Pennebaker's film, Don't Look Back, which was a documentary on Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England. In the film, Dylan, who came up with the idea, holds up cue cards for the audience, with selected words and phrases from the lyrics.
The three locations for the"cue card" clip as seen in Don't Look Back.
This video is very memorable and we would like to attempt to do a similar video. We plan to use it in the second verse of "We Are Broken", depending on how successful we can make it.
Adele - Chasing Pavements
In the first screenshot, it's at 0.08 and there are two people on the pavement unconscious. By 0.13 you can see the surroundings, there are a number of cars and smoke is filling the air, Adele is over looking the incident from her car. At 0.44 you see other people running over to help the couple. The chorus starts at 0.55 which is when they start moving as though they're stood up. You then see an ambulance at 1.46 with the ambulance crew helping. Another shadow appears at 2.02, which portrays her other lover. He soon goes again and her and the original man make up. They go back to being unconscious at 2.21 and from then Adele stands and observes the incident.
The music video, directed by Matthew Cullen earned a MTV Music Video Award for Best Choreography. It centres around a car crash where the couple who were in the car are lying on the pavement, motionless. During the choruses, the camera shows the victims from a birds-eye view coming alive and move as if they were stood up. The couple reenact their relationship, showing how they meet, the woman having another lover, him forgiving her and what happens before the accident. The video ends with both people on stretchers with ambulance crews tending to them. Adele is not one of the car crash victims; instead she is an onlooker.
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