Nothing suffocates you more than
The passing of everyday human events
Isolation is the oxygen mask you make
Your children breathe in to survive

But I'm not a slave to a god
That doesn't exist
But I'm not a slave to a world
That doesn't give a shit

And when we were good
You just closed you eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds

Fight, fight, fight, fight

You'll never grow up to be a big-
Rock-star-celebrated-victim-of-your-fame
They'll just cut our wrists like
Cheap coupons and say that death
Was on sale today

And when we were good
You just closed you eyes
So when we are bad
We'll scar your minds

But I'm not a slave to a god
That doesn't exist
But I'm not a slave to a world
That doesn't give a shit

The death of one is a tragedy       
The death of one is a tragedy       
The death of one is a tragedy       
But death of a million is just a statistic      

[CHORUS]

Fight, fight, fight, fight

Looking at the songs lyrics, I can tell that this song is about indivuduality and fighting against the mainstream (hence the name 'Fight Song') Also more indicators is the line 'I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist' which implies that he is does not follow the mainstream because he doesn't believe in the mainstream. The name is also a pun of high school and college football team anthems, also featuring a football game in the music video. The song is also in repsonse to the columbine tragedy,and how America glorifies violence, and using football as the most violent sport in America and their obsession with war.

When you watch the actual video itself, you see the drummer has some sort of supernatural person coming out of him. You wouldn't know this at first, but it's the spirit of his dead friend that died in a drive-by shooting. When I first watched this music video, I thought that it was his personality, as the drummer is the quiet character in the band. The spirit even sings that he has been let out and he even raps the lyric 'spiritual'Hero who appears in you to clear your view when you're too crazy. Which I think is a reference to a deity.

Horrible Histories often imitates historical figures using music videos, original or parodied.

That having been said, the music itself is pretty good, compared to what's on the charts.

Surrealist music videos can fit into other styles of music videos, so this video may be trying to tell a narrative, open to interpretation, but I just don't see it that way.

This could also fit into parodies, but it is parodying themes and mashing them all together.

The video itself has an anti-war theme to it and it shows tragedy when you see the boyfriend ambushed by the insurgents, which is then cut to the girlfriend sitting on a stand next to a field, looking up at the sky.

Some music videos have a clear narrative and want to tell a story, sometimes the story is open to interpretation and with some music videos with a narrative, you really have to pay attention to what is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg

I would have added the link through the URL button, but the thumbnail was too inappropriate to post.

There was also supposed to be a live DVD of Michael Jackson's 2009 tour: This Is It, before his premature death, the tour never took place.

As well as live footage on these DVD's, there are extras and behined the scenes which add to the value of the DVD's. Sometimes hours of interviews and maybe even never before seen footage from years ago.

• Narrative
• Interpretive
• Parody
• Pastiche
• Performance
• Impressionist
• Surreal

When editing, I used techniques such as side-by-side editing, and what I did was use footage of the same actor doing two completely different things with the camera still and I cropped the footage together to make it look like they are in the same scene. However, the lighting looked entirely different. What I did to combat this was play around with the lighting tool to try and make the two shots look like they were shot at the same time, as the video was shot outside.

50's: Music started to take a more aggressive approach in the 1950's with artists like Johnny Cash playing to hardened inmates at San Quentin prison. Rock and Roll was hard; compared to past music and it was very well structured. That's why Elvis Presley is the best-selling artists of all time.

60's: With the hippy movement, the rock and roll scene took a more eastern and psychedelic approach to music. Using instruments like Indian sitars to make music. Even The Beatles used it, along with bands like The Lemon Pipers. It had a unique, relaxed sound that is commonly associated with drugs like LSD.

70's: Alot of kids were sick of fashion trends like flares,and the swinging sixties were dead. Punk wanted to be the last vestige of rock and roll. So they made a very aggressive sound to put out to the working class youth of its time. Punk was about being against government, and that they have had enough of being persecuted. Although the music itself wasn't well structured, and you really didn't have to have intermediate music skill to play the genre. It was bout a group of people, gathering together, and sharing ideas.

80's: Metal music was the pinnacle of violent music. Although it was alot more well structured, and the guitar solo's were amazing, and the drums were pounding with lightning speed. Many saw it as a threat to society, but it was just music that sung about hate, anarchy and violence.

90's: 90's music saw the rise of R&B, and it was mindless and vapid. Boybands were starting to pour in. Nsync, 98 Degrees and The Backstreet Boys grew very popular, but then faded intro obscurity in the early 2000's. Although pop-punk was growing; with bands like Green Day, Sum 41 and Blink 182 signing with major record labels and achieving global success.

40's: In the 1940's, the whole world was fighting the war up to 1945, and the public needed its entertainment to get their minds off of the horrors of war. Frank Sinatra then bursted onto the music scene and began shaping the face of traditional pop music of its time. As a successful Italian-American, he was often associated with the notorious Italian mafia. Recently out of prohibition which made Al Capone well known, many people had theories that he had the power to murder anyone he pleased with their help. Sinatra was also part of this group called 'The Rat Pack' and that consisted of himself, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr. You see Sammy Davis was known to be a member of The Church of Satan in the late 60's, and of course Sinatra was associated with that too, as his bandmate Sammy was a member.

50's: In the 1950's, the emergance of Rock and Roll was bustling. Many new artists swept on to the scene and sexual perversion was becoming part of music. Elvis Presely was one of these artists to do so. At a show, he had some funky new dance moves, and on one occasion, a local judge threatened to prosecute him if he jirrated his hips. In modern times, he is considered a cultural icon, and back then he was considered a controversial, notorious rock and roller who got into his fair share of scuffles which affected his public image.

60's: Music had evolved beyond old fashioned Rock and Roll, with artists like Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran. The Beatles were the biggest thing in the 1960's. From1960 - 1970, The Beatles dominated mainstream music scene with many chart topping songs and albums. Many young girls would go crazy for the band and in the later stages of their career, they were seen as drugged up hippies. They had no doubt taken drugs, but with music videos like 'I Am the Walrus' you wouldn't be surprised that so many people labeled them as crazy drug takers, and there even was a story that they had light up at Buckingham Palace.

(Done the 70'sin my first paragraph)

80's: The 1980's was known for the growing poplularity of the heavy metal genre. Most heavy metal bands started in the late 1970's, but gained success in the 80's; due to the punk scene dwindling. The kids needed a new music genre to take out their anger and frustration with, and heavy metal was the IN thing. Many conservative voices had forsaken the genre and labelled anyone who listened to it, as devil worshippers and violent junkie yobs. I suppose songs with names like 'The Number of the Beast' helped with their publicity.

90's: The 90's had many new musical acts. This includes the emergance of boy-bands, the euro house music scene and the most iconic was Grunge. Inspired by metal, punk and hardcore, Nirvana came onto the scene with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' which is considered an anthem for an entire generation. Although the band itself was spiralling out of control with drug addiction, depression and suicide. Nowadays, it is parodied as a depressive subculture, but Cobain is still considered a legend amongst followers of teen angst.

Music video two: Sweet Dreams has had top positions in the charts in the year 1983. According to statistics, they had positions from number two - fifteen in seven countries including the UK. They have also had two platinum albums from the single in Canada, a platinum in the UK, a gold in the US and another gold in Germany,

Music video three: According to statistics, the sales of this song have had a grand total of 5,762,000 all over the world, reaching four platinum certifications in Canada, the UK and the US.

Statistics and facts by Wikipedia.org

Music video one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

Music video two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg

Music video three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

All of these music videos must have been on television channels like MTV, Kerrang etc.

Music video two: The song has been featured in many films such as Big Daddy and television shows like Everybody Hates Chris, but so far I have not been able to find any films that featured the music video.

Music video three: Most recently, the film Despicable Me 2 have parodied this song using the characters known as minions. Which ofcourse would have had to pay licsensing, since they were profiting from their origfinal work by parodying it.

Music video two: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This): Sources say that they have read in the booklet in the album of Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (1983) "The song is about life as it is, saying that here we are in our existence, trying to make sense of our lives and to survive."

Music video three: The Village People - YMCA: The purpose of this music video is to advertise an organisation called the YMCA (Young Mens Christian Association) by extolling their values in the music video. Although, they are considered a gay icon.

In this music video, the first shot of Avril Lavigne is playing her acoustic guitar and then her phone rings and she says "Oh! My Sony phone is ringing!" Then she takes the phone out of a glass of water. So she is promoting the Sony brand, as she is signed to Epic Records, which is a division of Sony's Music Entertainment division. Also, she showed that the phone was capable of being waterproof, she did this because the producers and director wanted to show the viewer that the phone was capable of being used after being dunked into water.

Music itself: The music is classically composed by a professional orchestra. Although there is no conductor. The lyrics are emotionally vapid and shallow, with its theme of love.

Fashion trends: Judy Garlands current dress that she is wearing wouldn't have influenced the way fashion was looked at, women have been wearing these types of dresses for special occasions, like a family gathering or a dinner party. But not as formal wear.

Quality of the footage: Looking at the footage, you can tell that it is shot on a high quality camera for its time. Although the footage could have been digitally re-mastered.

Shot types: The shots are not creative and flowing. The only shots they use is a short longshot, and a few mid view shots of Garland and the onlookers. Maybe a close-up shot here and there, but nothing adventurous.

Effects: As far as i can tell, there is not any effects used in this video, because they wouldn't have had the film technology to pull off anything spectacular.

Editing: Just normal cuts, nothing fancy.

Music itself: The music is upbeat, but talks about a thing called 'summertime blues', which associates summer with being sad. There is also a phrase about being 'blue' (sad) in the winter. The instrumental part of the song is pretty basic, using 3 major chords on Eddie's signature guitar.

Fashion trends: I would have never associated Eddie with designer clothing, I would associate his fashion more professionally tailored suit style.

Quality of the footage: The footage is shot on an old black and white camera. Probably very high quality of the year it was shot.

Shot types: There are mainly two shots in the entire video. A mid shot, and then a close mid shot, but at a different angle. They also include a multi shot with a shot of the crowd.

Effects: They used a shot of the crowd on top of Eddie, but it was transparent.

Editing: They use two cuts, and a technique with a soft edit shot on top of Eddie with the crowd.

Music itself: The music itself is very well structured and includes a good rhythm and melody. The subject of the song is about the subject of love, a common choice of subject for boybands to appeal to teenage girls. the video itself has over 28,000,000.

Fashion trends: Looking at their clothes, they're wearing the standard trousers and shirt. I don't feel that the type of shirt they're wearing was openly popular amongst the youth of that time, but I could be wrong.

Quality of the footage: The footage is finally in colour, but it could have been remastered.

Shot types: The shots range from mid shots of the entire band, to close up shots of each of the band members, and close up shots of the actual instruments.

Effects: There are no effects in the actual video, it's very basic.

Editing: The flow of the shots are not entirely consistent, it took 15 seconds to cut to a different shot. But after a those 15 seconds, the cuts are regular and constant

Music itself: The music is of course a cover of My Way by Frank Sinatra, written by Paul Anka. The melody is comprised of electric guitar, a different approach to the song. It fits well with the music, but the vocals are intentionally supposed to sound bad.

Fashion trends: Punk at the time influenced fashion in an extraordinary way. Punks fashion started in at Kings Road in London, at the clothing shop SEX, owned by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren. The fashion mainly consisted of old clothes being ripped apart, using safety pins to keep them together. Also they deface already made clothing, most notably the I Hate Pink Floyd t-shirt.

Quality of the footage: The footage is in colour and in good quality, but the link looks like a download, and they tend to downgrade footage when it is downloaded. You can see the mp3-easy.com link in the bottom right corner.

Shot types: At the start of the video, they get a variety of shots outside of the venue from different angle, and shots. Inside there are a number of crowd shots, and from there on it is a few basic mid - closeup shots of Sid and the Crowd.

Effects: There are no special effects used in this music video, but they do use a gun that fires blanks when Sid fires into the crowd.

Editing: The first shots up until 10 seconds are advanced, they gains shots from outside of the venue where it says 'Sid Vicious' and when they're done cutting the shots it shows a full view of outside the venue. The interior editing is rather basic, and cuts mostly from 7 - 11 seconds.

Music itself: The music is very well composed, and the vocals are fantastic. There is also a solo which is played by a synthesiser.

Fashion trends: The band is seen dressed in entirely womens clothing, which is supposed to be for a spoof of Coronation Street.

Quality of the footage: The footage quality is not high quality, I would say it is standard, since the budget for this video was £100,000.

Shot types: The shots have a high range from long distance shots, to close up shots, to smooth panning, cut-ins and cutaways.

Effects: The cuts do have transitions from time-to-time, it's like a tearing piece of paper which transitions to the next shot, and then disappears. There is also a prop that is used at the start of the video that has a soft blinking light effect.

Editing: The edits are regular and feature plenty of cutaways to different scenes in the music video, with different scenarios. It even sets the scene with an edit from Coronation Street. It's kept to a consistent standard to keep the audience interest

Music itself: Them music is Swedish dance club music, so there is no lyrics, but it focuses more in the beat and bass in the song.

Fashion trends: No fashion trends have come from the actual artist, but when I think of Sewdish dance music, I think of cybergoth sort of style, they would have glow sticks around their necks and face paint.

Shot types: The camera angles are shot like in a feature film, and feature multiple shots, even dolly shots. And they feature shots that look down at the camera, at the actors running past. The camera movement is very smooth, and even runs along with the actors, without difficulty.

Effects: There are a lot of visual effects in this music video. They have an effect where the person running is stopped mid-running, whilst the background image still moves.

Editing: The editing is well done, and is kept consistent with the chase, and following the pursers. mid-trhough it cuts to a random man who happens to be in that place, which in my guest is the artist. As the years have gone by, editing and effects has greatly improved with technology.

Looking at this music video in a minute, I see it takes a different approach to all the other music videos. This videos setting is set in a club, with smooth club lighting. Not obnoxiously colourful with over the top lighting effects, but just light red effects with the occasional effect. But there are other shots where there is no club lighting effects and don't focus on BIG, but on one of the co-stars featured in the song. The editing does not tend to cut a lot, instead it uses smooth transitions that just fade in to the next shot. The camera movements are very smooth and most likely using some for of tracks and equipment to give the camera the smooth tilts and panning that goes on in the video. The camera shots vary from high up shots of the crowd from a mid-long shot, to mid shots of action going on in the club, but not too many long shots I noticed.

Looking at the costumes in this music video, the way the people are dressed seems mafia boss/wealthy. I think this is because of the lyrics of the song and the title 'Big Poppa' which could be considered a name for a mob boss. Along with the costumes, the biggest props used is alcoholic beverages and money. You can see that almost every actor has a drink in their hand, which gives this music video a smooth party feeling to it. You can see that they are having a good time with the music playing in the background (when you see the crowd mouthing the words) and it makes the audience want to sing along, which fits into mise-en-scene because of the arrangement of the performers and the props they have.

The editing is smooth I would say, what i mean is that it doesn't bombard you with seizure inducing lighting effects or multiple things going on at the same time. You only want to see the band and how the story develops between the lead singer and the girl. The costumes are mainly the bands normal attire, maybe a bit smart for the occasion, but what stood out to me is how the girl dresses. Because she wears rather revealing clothing, and you can see her just coming out of the shower, vulnerable, sexy and smoothly.

Looking at the canera angles, we are the ones that look up to the artists for most of the video. This implies that they have a sense of power and that they are superior. I say this because the subject of the song is about women not being 'Loyal' so they want to display their dominance to women that they must be loyal, like a dog is loyal to its owner.

The camera movements in the music video (particularly the dancing sequences) use a vast array of equipment to get the appropriate movements. They use trucks, dollies and they use a special piece of equipment called a boom. A camera on an arm that can be fixed on a point, which they use in the dance sequences when they get a shot above Chris Brown and the dancers.

This music video features a variety of shots that are commonly used in the video. They use medium close ups, Long shots, medium shots, medium long shots and close up shots. But they surprisingly don't use cut-ins, extreme long shots or weather shots. 

The music video has a wide use of mise-en-scene with multiple performers and dancer to keep the music video interesting, as well as using a boombox as a prop. In terms lighting, it can be quiet dark with soft lights on the group and uses neon lights in the background set for decoration and adds the whole hollywood bright lights/vegas theme.

Edits in this music video are kept fresh and consistent throughout this music video, and always use different shots and angles. The shots mainly cut every 4-6 seconds throughout the song. The sound uses non-diegetic sounds, as part of the music video. With alot of produced music made from programs like FL studio and synthesisers. The colours of the music video are bright in the background and with the clothes that they wear, but the foreground lighting is not so bright. I think that's because they wanted a theme of going out on the town in the evening, so their background illuminates them with a soft light behind the character.