http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY
Comfortably Numb, a song written by Roger Waters, had its debut on the double album The Wall and was released November 30th 1979. For those of you who might be too young to know, Rogers was Pink Floyd's original lead singer, principal songwriter, and conceptual leader. In my personal opinion, this music video is a great portrayal of how a music video can tell a story beyond what the average listener can grasp from just the lyrics alone. The video does a great job using visual imagery and capturing the audience's imagination to further express the concept behind the song. The video opens up with Pink, sitting in a chair watching T.V. and suddenly he goes into a drug induced catatonic state. Within his drug induced state he has visions of his childhood of the experiences he had as a child. What's very cool about this is that these experiences occur within Roger's life. This is very inspiring as a songwriter to see because it comes to show that there are other artistic ways to express and add to the story beyond what the lyrics themselves cannot portray. For those of you who haven't seen the video click on the link and enjoy!
I wonder if you could say more about the visual imagery and how they are representing this story with film techniques like distance, angle, color, etc.?
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