Audience The video I have chosen to do is produced by a punk rock/pop punk band called The Offspring. The song is called “Original Prankster” and has proven to be rather popular throughout their music career. Music videos for punk rock videos usually focus on the band and their instruments. I would say that the video I have chosen is very stereotypical for this genre. The main reason that music videos are

created is that it could explain the song lyrics visually, and it’s also another way to advertise music. The “Original Prankster” music video is very stereotypical to the gender; there are many reasons behind this. The first one being that the video mainly revolves around the band performing live with instruments in front of a crowd of people. With the band, there came all of the instruments you would expect a rock band to use e.g. Guitar, drums, bass. There were plenty of zoom in’s on the instruments being played with lots of varied shots. The props that are used for the music video are related to the genre of the song, lots of naked girls, expensive cars (which represent the rock star look) and people skateboarding which shows the punk side of the band. Even the outfits that the band use represents the genre, they’re wearing casual clothing a long with black sunglasses showing the “cool rock” side of the song/band. The title of the song is called “Original Prankster”, the music video definitely explains the lyrics in the song and is relevant. It basically shows the audience a boy growing up pulling pranks on other people. At the start of the video, it shows a man and a flashback to his older mischievous years. The image to the right shows the way in which the flashback is complete, a smart elliptical edit into the eye then zooming back out. This means that the video is non-linear because it isn’t in order, it goes back in time. There are direct links with the music video and the lyrics of the song although there is no actual pattern with the song. In the video, the pranks that some of the people play are rather funny and relevant to the song. For example, the boy picks up a piece of dog poo and puts it in his dad’s sandwich.

The Offspring attempt to make themselves look cool and funny and represent it through the video. These characteristics of the punk rock genre that The Offspring are categorized in. It is done through how it shows the band playing live and the stylish clothing that they are wearing. It is also show by the amount of half naked girls around in the video in bikinis, this stereotypes the punk rock genre. The Screenshot to the right shows this. The obvious audience for the music video is for people who are a fan of punk rock. This is because this song is one of the most stereotypical songs you’ll ever see. Thanks to the cars, girls, skaters and live band. I feel the main thing that attracts the audience to the video is the fact that the band are playing and the zoom-ins of the instruments.