2. I have chosen Tim Mattia as my director as he focuses
mainly on bands that belong to the same genre as the
Vaccines; rock and indie rock. He also not only does
music videos, but also often does eye-opening live
work for bands such as Biffy Clyro, My Chemical
Romance and The Dead Weather.
Mattia has directed videos for artists such as Marilyn
Manson, You Me At Six, Young Guns, The Chapman
Family, Cage the Elephant, Helsinki and more.
3. One thing Tim Mattia is known for is his use of
symbolism in videos in relationship to the lyrics.
One example of this is in You Me At Six’s ‘Bite My
Tongue’, in which the lyrics speak of holding back your
words. To show this,
Mattia decided to wrap
the band up in their own
tangled wires, and
present them
as if they’re being
controlled like puppets.
4. Another example of this is the Young Guns’ ‘Stitches’,
which features all the members of the band being
aligned with a symbolic force. This is appropriate as in
the song they mention decay, and these elements show
the decay of particular items or people.
5. Tim Mattia also has a quite interesting use of colour
within his work. In the You Me At Six songs ‘Loverboy’
and ‘Bite My Tongue’, quite a lot of blue light is used.
This gives the same theme to the same songs (which
are from the same album), and creates quite a tense
atmosphere, which is suitable for their album, entitled
‘Sinners Never Sleep’.
Bite My Tongue Loverboy
6. In ‘Loverboy’, blue isn’t the only colour used. Red is
also commonly featured in the video, which connotes
some of the darker themes in the video as it can be
thought of as the colour of the devil. This suits the
song as they sing about repenting and guilt. It is also
the colour of passion,
which fits as when the
red is used they are
singing and ‘free’,
whereas in the bluer
scenes they are in the
captivity of police
officers; therefore red being the colour of freedom.
7. Among the Young Guns’ videos, however, there is a
noticeable lack of colour. This is done in order to give
the video a more artistic feel and make it more emotive
and powerful.
This difference between the
Young Guns’ videos and
You Me At Six’s show how a
director can adapt for
different bands, regardless
of how similar their music
might be, and I think Tim
Mattia has done this
extremely effectively.
