Analysis and Reflection
Above is a fan made music video to the song Assassin. It is a fantastically made video. The added graphics as well as position of John Mayer in some of his scenes are great. (Note: John did not pose for this in any way). Judging by the comments on the page, people loved it, and with good reason. Whoever made this movie must have experience and talent making movies like this. Timing was on, as well as the storyline of the music video to the lyrics of the song. If you watch closely he uses clips from “Where The Light Is,” John Mayer’s live DVD released a few years ago. Also, there are some scenes from Gone In 60 Seconds. This clip bears some similarities with my own. Obviously whoever made the vid must be a fan of the song or artist to create such an extensive video. The video also takes pieces from the same video that one of my clips came from (the final cip in mine). Also, we share the same broadcasting method (YouTube) as well as we both tell a story. However, this vid tries more so to tell a story rather than convey any sort of persuasion. My video was meant to inform people of the guitar prowess of John Mayer, this is just a sick music video with a storyline.
I tried to insert the video from Vimeo for my second piece but I guess WordPress is not compatible with Viemo yet. here is the link
This links to a video that John Mayer shot himself. It is pretty much like the title, a day in the life of John Mayer. Of course everyone who sees this video are probably fans of John’s, so they post on the video that they love it and think it was great and put together well. Or it could just be that John’s artistic abilities don’t just lie in music. This is almost nothing like my video. We share the same topic, and while it is broadcasted and can be searched and found on the internet, John uses Vimeo for this and posts on his blog as well (I guess blog posts are the same?) Anyways, this video is a very artsy demonstration of what John does on the day of a concert. My video shows no such preparation. Also, all of John’s work is original, shot by him with production being done by someone else I assume (it says Copyright MMK). Nearly all the work on my video I took from clips ABOUT John or clips that were shot of him, not by him.
Above is yet another YouTube video. This is a compilation of some of John’s solo’s in songs. All the replies seemed to be in German, so I couldn’t really tell if it was accepted well, but there were some smiley faces so I’m guessing it was at least somewhat of a hit. It is a simple video. Audio and video (still image really). Does not tell a story or try to be persuasive like my video, but does show off John’s guitar talent by having samples of his sickest solo’s. Once again we use the same medium (YouTube). His does not incorporate much of the background that my video does on John Mayer. It just shows the audience how good John can sound on the guitar.
Now here is a good example of a compilation video. Once again most likely done by a fan because of the tremendous amount of time you would have to hear the song in order to create this video. All the comments show that this video was well accepted by it’s audience. It is a compilation of 16 videos that show John Mayer singing his song Clarity. Now, we both use the same networking (YouTube), and we both have the same base topic (John Mayer) but that is where the similarities end. He doesn’t seem to be making a point, and does a great job of having the video (one of John’s actual music video of the song and the rest of live and other times he has played) and audio flowing seamlessly. When John is singing in the different videos it really moves along great with the audio. A simple fan vid that probably took a good amount of time to make. Once again, it shows John’s music ability, while mine showed what John has done to get to playing the blues and how good he is at it.
