Foo Fighters - Video Analysis

The Pretender

The floor, set, props, instruments, and lights are all white with a black trim. The only two colours present (the red background and Dave Grohl’s skin tone) are emphasised. This was a very unique style similar to the effect used in Sin City. Everyone is wearing all black. The lead singer is wearing a different colour shirt than the rest of the band. The red wall is used as an accent agains the black and white instruments and emptiness of the warehouse space. This video makes use of a live performance and a narrative. 

Walk 

Much like The pretender there is use made of a big open empty space which seems to be a common theme throughout their videos. Once again there are lots of blacks and dark colours and the main singer is wearing a different colour shirt than the band. In this video the band play all of the main characters in the story and it also includes a live performance as well as the narrative. A common theme observed between their videos is the idea of each band member (except the singer) as having many roles to play but one is always themselves, seen at the end of this video. 

Learn To Fly

This includes both a narrative and live performance. Once again the band play all characters in story and also like before the one aspect of themselves. 

Long Road To Ruin

In this, once again the band play all characters in story and it also includes a live performance but they don’t have an aspect of themselves. 

Everlong

This includes a live performance and a story and the band play all characters in story. The dreams are filmed in saturated colours where as the “reality” is filmed in black and white; this is unusual as in most editing it would be done the other way, however this helps the viewers differentiate between the dreams and reality scenes.

Best of You

This is all a live performance, performed in a big open space. there is sort of a narrative with images portraying a story but the band do not play characters. There is a quick location change to a different room and includes lots of emotional close-ups of the band focusing on the singer. 

Rope

This has a live performance in large empty room, where everyone is in dark clothes. There are once again lots of close ups on the singer but no story, with no characters. The walls begin to change colour to green, red and blue, returning back to The Pretender for a theme.